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Wakefield NSW 2278

Wakefield is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2278. It has 114 properties across 8 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Wakefield, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Wakefield

Wakefield, NSW 2278, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Fassifern, Freemans Waterhole, Ryhope and Teralba. Its 8 streets hold 114 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for West Wallsend - Barnsley - Killingworth, an area that covers most of the suburb. It had 7,254 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.7 people. Median household income was $1,769 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,798 a month and the median rent $390 a week. Of 2,579 dwellings, 2,516 were separate houses, 35 semi-detached, 11 flats and 7 other; 822 were owned outright, 1,254 owned with a mortgage and 384 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Wakefield

  • 7,254Peoplelive in the area
  • 38Median ageyears
  • $1,769Median household incomea week
  • $390Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,516
  • Townhouses and semis35
  • Flats and apartments11
  • Other7

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,798a month
  • Household size2.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 822Owned with a mortgage 1,254Rented 384Other 119

Schools in Wakefield

  • Wakefield School

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Streets in Wakefield

  1. Archery Road15 properties
  2. Jefferson Road7 properties
  3. Mccanns Road6 properties
  4. Miller Road24 properties
  5. Rhondda Road9 properties
  6. Rosina Road4 properties
  7. School Road20 properties
  8. Wakefield Road29 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.

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.