Suburb profile
Tighes Hill NSW 2297
Tighes Hill is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2297. It has 1,127 properties across 30 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Tighes Hill, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Tighes Hill
Tighes Hill, NSW 2297, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Islington, Kooragang, Mayfield East and Mayfield North. Its 30 streets hold 1,127 properties, 839 of them houses and 288 units.
Census figures are for Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill, an area that covers 0.99 of the suburb. It had 9,171 residents, a median age of 35 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,915 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,985 a month and the median rent $450 a week. Of 3,944 dwellings, 2,222 were separate houses, 1,043 semi-detached, 632 flats and 35 other; 932 were owned outright, 1,235 owned with a mortgage and 1,694 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Tighes Hill
- 9,171Peoplelive in the area
- 35Median ageyears
- $1,915Median household incomea week
- $450Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses2,222
- Townhouses and semis1,043
- Flats and apartments632
- Other35
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,985a month
- Household size2.2people on average
How homes are held
Schools in Tighes Hill
Tighes Hill Public School
GovernmentPrimary
No secondary schools in Tighes Hill.
Streets in Tighes Hill
- Bryant Street51 properties
- Chinchen Street1 property
- Clyde Street5 properties
- Dyke Road3 properties
- Elizabeth Street174 properties
- Ferndale Street30 properties
- Francis Street13 properties
- George Street65 properties
- Gross Street1 property
- Henry Street136 properties
- Hewison Street65 properties
- Industrial Drive19 properties
- John Street60 properties
- Kings Road44 properties
- Maitland Road36 properties
- Margaret Street47 properties
- Mcisaac Street31 properties
- Mitchell Street42 properties
- Park Road14 properties
- Powell Street1 property
- Proctor Street10 properties
- Queens Road17 properties
- Revelation Close43 properties
- Rose Street14 properties
- Selwyn Street7 properties
- Sparke Street3 properties
- Throsby Street16 properties
- Tighes Terrace54 properties
- Union Street73 properties
- William Street52 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.
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Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.