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Housing
cardiff heights
New South Wales · Census 2021
$953k
+0.3% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Cardiff Heights is a leafy residential suburb of Lake Macquarie.
Median house price
People
Population
1,384
Median age
44 yrs
Income / person / wk
$808
Household income / wk
$1,850
Housing
Median rent / wk
$380
Mortgage / month
$2,050
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 42%
- Top language at home
- Polish · 1%
- No religion
- 42%
- Born overseas
- 14%
- English only at home
- 93%
Schools by sector
Government
0
Catholic
0
Independent
0
Primary
0
Secondary
0
Nearest secondary
1.9 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
- Newcastle
- Federal MP
- Sharon Claydon (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 71% 2PP
- State electorate
- Wallsend
- State MP
- Sonia Hornery (ALP)
Similar suburbs
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