Median elevation
22 m
range 2–47 m
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Housing
Callaghan
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Callaghan is a leafy residential suburb of Newcastle.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Callaghan.
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Callaghan from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $825k.
People & housing
Population
1,358
Median age
20 yrs
Income / person / wk
$302
Who lives here
- Unemployment
- 18%
- +13 pts vs NSW
- In the labour force
- 44%
- −15 pts vs NSW
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 2%
- −26 pts vs NSW
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 47%
- +25 pts vs NSW
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 0%
- −13 pts vs NSW
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. NSW figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
1.0%
<0.1% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. No flood map lodged in the NSW planning instruments for most of this suburb; most councils keep theirs in a development control plan. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled.
Planning & zoning
Zoning mix (share of the suburb's land)
Show on map →- Infrastructure & special purpose84%
- Open space & recreation10%
- Industrial & employment2.6%
- Conservation2.6%
- Low-density residential0.3%
In a heritage area
0%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
0
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Max building height
8.5 m
typical, residential land
Floor space ratio
0.6:1
floor area allowed per m² of site
Minimum lot size
450 m²
to subdivide residential land
Planning instrument: Newcastle Local Environmental Plan 2012. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Height, floor space ratio and lot size are the NSW Local Environmental Plan standards: the area-weighted median over the residential-zoned land where the LEP maps that standard, given only where it maps it on at least half of that land; clause-based exceptions are not modelled. Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Source: NSW EPI Land Zoning; NSW EPI Heritage; NSW EPI Height of Buildings, Floor Space Ratio and Lot Size.
Local amenities
Schools
0
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
1
Parks
6
Libraries
2
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
1.4 km
Nearest train
0.6 km
Nearest hospital
1.3 km
Distance to coast
2.2 km
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).
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 43%
- Top language at home
- Punjabi · 0%
- No religion
- 43%
- Born overseas
- 14%
- English only at home
- 88%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 1.1 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Newcastle
- Population
- 178,935 (2025) · +1.1% in a year
- Area / density
- 187 km² · 958/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 37 · $1,760/wk household income · $400/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $885k
- Federal grants
- $15.71M in 2025-26 · $88/resident
- Website
- newcastle.nsw.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Newcastle
- Federal MP
- Sharon Claydon (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 71% 2PP
- State electorate
- Wallsend
- State MP
- Sonia Hornery (ALP)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Flood, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY 4.0); NSW Bush Fire Prone Land, NSW Rural Fire Service (CC BY 4.0); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Land Zoning, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Heritage, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Height of Buildings, Floor Space Ratio and Minimum Lot Size, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.