Australian Local Government Area

Newcastle, NSW

Local government area demographic profile. Aggregated from AUSynth-generated suburb data, calibrated to ABS Census 2021.

Population

~181,684

Families

~78,312

Suburbs

51

State

NSW

Full LGA report

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Suburbs in this LGA (top 12 by population)

  • Wallsend 2287~13,983 people
  • Merewether 2291~12,455 people
  • New Lambton 2305~11,237 people
  • Mayfield, 2304 NSW 2304~10,288 people
  • Fletcher, NSW 2287~8,447 people
  • Maryland, 2287 NSW 2287~8,123 people
  • Adamstown 2289~6,688 people
  • Elermore Vale 2287~6,385 people
  • Adamstown Heights 2289~5,938 people
  • Lambton 2299~5,495 people
  • Waratah, NSW 2298~5,193 people
  • Hamilton, NSW 2303~4,861 people

39 more suburbs in this LGA. Suburb-level demographic profiles available at /demographics.

Methodology

LGA-level figures here are aggregated from AUSynth-generated suburb data. The underlying synthetic individuals are reconstructed from ABS Census 2021 conditional tables using Bayesian methods; the full methodology is at /docs/methodology.

Newcastle, NSW - Local Government Area demographic profile | Verosynthea