Suburb profile

West Wallsend NSW 2286

West Wallsend is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2286. It has 1,421 properties across 45 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in West Wallsend, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About West Wallsend

West Wallsend, NSW 2286, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Holmesville, Killingworth, Mulbring and Stockrington. Its 45 streets hold 1,421 properties, 1,334 of them houses and 87 units.

Census figures are for the West Wallsend - Barnsley - Killingworth area, which 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 West Wallsend

  • 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

Properties in West Wallsend

Schools in West Wallsend

  • West Wallsend Public School

    GovernmentPrimary

Local agents in West Wallsend

Request an appraisal

Agencies that specialise in West Wallsend

Streets in West Wallsend

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.