charlestown (nsw)
New South Wales · Census 2021
$984k
+8.6% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Charlestown (NSW) is a dense inner suburb of Lake Macquarie.
Median house price
People
Housing
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 45%
- Top language at home
- Mandarin · 0%
- No religion
- 45%
- Born overseas
- 14%
- English only at home
- 91%
Local amenities
Grocery mix: 1 Coles · 1 Woolworths · 1 Aldi. 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
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
- Shortland
- Federal MP
- Pat Conroy (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 62% 2PP
- State electorate
- Charlestown
- State MP
- Jodie Harrison (ALP)
Crime & safety
FY2024–25, 2-yr pooled. Recorded incidents: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR); adjusted to the ABS Crime Victimisation Survey; ABS ERP population denominator. All CC BY 4.0. Percentile is the population-weighted rank among suburbs in the same state — higher means more reported crime. Ranks are never compared across states, because each police force counts offences under its own rules.
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.