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balcolyn
New South Wales · Census 2021
$858k
+12.1% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Balcolyn is a coastal suburb of Lake Macquarie.
Median house price
People
Population
1,002
Median age
43 yrs
Income / person / wk
$704
Household income / wk
$1,525
Housing
Median rent / wk
$390
Mortgage / month
$1,733
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 43%
- Top language at home
- Spanish · 0%
- No religion
- 43%
- Born overseas
- 11%
- English only at home
- 97%
Schools by sector
Government
0
Catholic
0
Independent
0
Primary
0
Secondary
0
Nearest secondary
2.0 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Lake Macquarie
- Council population
- 210,044
- Council area
- 649 km²
- Density
- 324/km²
- Federal grants
- $21.21M/yr (2025-26)
- Grants per resident
- $101/yr
Council boundary: ABS ASGS LGA 2024. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. All CC BY 4.0.
Representation
- Federal division
- Hunter
- Federal MP
- Dan Repacholi (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 59% 2PP
- State electorate
- Lake Macquarie
- State MP
- Greg Piper (IND)
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