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Housing
brightwaters
New South Wales · Census 2021
$1.08M
-16.1% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Brightwaters is a coastal suburb of Lake Macquarie.
Median house price
People
Population
875
Median age
50 yrs
Income / person / wk
$752
Household income / wk
$1,419
Housing
Median rent / wk
$390
Mortgage / month
$2,000
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 37%
- Top language at home
- Australian Indigenous languages · 1%
- No religion
- 37%
- Born overseas
- 14%
- English only at home
- 94%
Local amenities
Amenity score
3/100
Schools
1
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
0
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
1.1 km
Nearest train
5.0 km
Nearest hospital
13.6 km
Distance to coast
0.5 km
NBN
Fixed Line
Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Schools by sector
Government
0
Catholic
0
Independent
1
Primary
1
Secondary
1
Nearest secondary
0.3 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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