Suburb profile

Wickham NSW 2293

Wickham is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2293. It has 2,031 properties across 33 streets. Explore every street in Wickham, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Wickham

Wickham, NSW 2293, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Maryville, Carrington, Newcastle West and Newcastle. Its 33 streets hold 2,031 properties, 684 of them houses and 1,347 units.

Census figures are for the Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill area, which had 9,171 residents at the 2021 Census, 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 and 632 flats; 35 were other dwellings. Tenure stood at 932 owned outright, 1,235 owned with a mortgage and 1,694 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Wickham

  • 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

Owned outright 932Owned with a mortgage 1,235Rented 1,694Other 83

Streets in Wickham

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.