Suburb profile
The Hill NSW 2300
The Hill is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2300. It has 1,540 properties across 28 streets. Explore every street in The Hill, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About The Hill
The Hill, NSW 2300, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Cooks Hill, Newcastle and Bar Beach. Its 28 streets hold 1,540 properties, 548 of them houses and 992 units.
Census figures are for the area Newcastle - Cooks Hill, which had 12,805 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 1.9 people. Median household income was $1,929 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,169 a month and the median rent $445 a week. Of 6,129 dwellings, 716 were separate houses, 1,474 semi-detached, 3,876 flats and 31 other; 1,569 were owned outright, 1,188 owned with a mortgage and 3,273 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in The Hill
- 12,805Peoplelive in the area
- 38Median ageyears
- $1,929Median household incomea week
- $445Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses716
- Townhouses and semis1,474
- Flats and apartments3,876
- Other31
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,169a month
- Household size1.9people on average
How homes are held
Schools in The Hill
Newcastle Grammar School
IndependentPrimary and secondary
Newcastle Grammar School
IndependentPrimary and secondary
Streets in The Hill
- Anzac Parade46 properties
- Armitage Street37 properties
- Barker Street28 properties
- Bingle Street18 properties
- Brown Street8 properties
- Church Street150 properties
- Cliff Street3 properties
- High Street63 properties
- Hillview Crescent74 properties
- Kitchener Parade98 properties
- Lemnos Parade98 properties
- Marine View8 properties
- Mccormack Street23 properties
- Memorial Drive61 properties
- Menkens Lane7 properties
- Mosbri Crescent68 properties
- Nesca Parade291 properties
- Newcomen Street27 properties
- Off Church Street7 properties
- Ordnance Street18 properties
- Perkins Street23 properties
- Pit Street2 properties
- Queen Street54 properties
- Swan Street28 properties
- The Boltons6 properties
- The Terrace35 properties
- Tyrrell Street180 properties
- Wolfe Street79 properties
Neighbouring suburbs
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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.
School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.