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Housing
woodrising
New South Wales · Census 2021
$790k
+6.8% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Woodrising is a coastal suburb of Lake Macquarie.
Median house price
People
Population
1,176
Median age
36 yrs
Income / person / wk
$718
Household income / wk
$1,634
Housing
Median rent / wk
$378
Mortgage / month
$1,570
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 45%
- Top language at home
- Australian Indigenous languages · 0%
- No religion
- 45%
- Born overseas
- 9%
- English only at home
- 94%
Schools by sector
Government
0
Catholic
0
Independent
0
Primary
0
Secondary
0
Nearest secondary
1.0 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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