Suburb profile
Sunshine NSW 2264
Sunshine is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2264. It has 279 properties across 7 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Sunshine, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Sunshine
Sunshine, NSW 2264, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Lake Macquarie, Mirrabooka and Silverwater. Its 7 streets hold 279 properties, 272 of them houses and 7 units.
Census figures are for the Bonnells Bay - Silverwater area, which has 9,691 residents, a median age of 43 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income is $1,491 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,783 a month and the median rent $400 a week. Of 3,667 dwellings, 3,511 are separate houses, 102 semi-detached and 41 flats; 1,454 are owned outright, 1,221 owned with a mortgage and 908 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Sunshine
- 9,691Peoplelive in the area
- 43Median ageyears
- $1,491Median household incomea week
- $400Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3,511
- Townhouses and semis102
- Flats and apartments41
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,783a month
- Household size2.5people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Sunshine
Neighbouring suburbs
Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.
Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.