Suburb profile
The Junction NSW 2291
The Junction is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2291. It has 888 properties across 15 streets. Explore every street in The Junction, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About The Junction
The Junction, NSW 2291, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Bar Beach, Hamilton South, Merewether and Cooks Hill. Its 15 streets hold 888 properties, 442 of them houses and 446 units.
Census figures are for Merewether - The Junction, which covers the whole suburb. It had 14,506 residents, a median age of 40 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $2,277 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,500 a month and the median rent $420 a week. Of 5,584 dwellings, 3,491 were separate houses, 1,042 semi-detached and 1,050 flats. Of 5,584 households, 2,003 owned their home outright, 1,684 owned with a mortgage and 1,797 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in The Junction
- 14,506Peoplelive in the area
- 40Median ageyears
- $2,277Median household incomea week
- $420Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3,491
- Townhouses and semis1,042
- Flats and apartments1,050
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,500a month
- Household size2.5people on average
How homes are held
Streets in The Junction
- Bar Beach Avenue66 properties
- Brien Street17 properties
- Bruce Street19 properties
- Chester Lane7 properties
- Corlette Street54 properties
- Darby Street1 property
- Dawson Street13 properties
- Farquhar Street81 properties
- Glebe Road169 properties
- Kemp Street64 properties
- Kenrick Street141 properties
- Ravenshaw Street44 properties
- Turnbull Street10 properties
- Union Street179 properties
- Watkins Street23 properties
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.