Cessnock (NSW 2325): property prices, streets & suburb profile

Cessnock LGA · Latest published data July 2026 · Page updated August 2026 · Public government records

Cessnock · NSW 2325 · median house price (24 months)
$680,000+129.9%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Cessnock has about 6,189 dwellings on record, with 746 house and 119 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 226 streets.
Median house price
$680,000
746 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$540,000
119 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$570/wk
363 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
4.4%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 14
homes on record trades each year
Nearest train station
Lochinvar Railway Station
15.7 km away

Cessnock house and unit prices

The median Cessnock house sold for $680,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +129.9% over 10 years and +57.4% over 5 years.

1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+11.6%
+26.3%
+79.8%
+150.0%
Units
+5.7%
+15.5%
+58.9%
+87.9%

Change in 12-month median sale prices to July 2026 vs the same window 1, 3, 5 and 10 years earlier · NSW Valuer General records

Median house price · 12 months to July 2026
Cessnock
$720,000
Cessnock LGA
$797,500
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
280k407k534k661k788k20172019202120232025
View as table
PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$281,500
Oct 2015$278,500
2016$272,500$298,000
Apr 2016$312,500
July 2016$312,500
Oct 2016$340,000
2017$317,500$295,000
Apr 2017$315,500
July 2017$350,000
Oct 2017$370,000
2018$358,000$315,000
Apr 2018$379,000
July 2018$370,000
Oct 2018$392,500
2019$380,000$319,000
Apr 2019$365,000
July 2019$362,500
Oct 2019$367,600
2020$380,000$340,000
Apr 2020$352,500
July 2020$379,500
Oct 2020$385,000
2021$397,500$390,000
Apr 2021$465,000
July 2021$522,500
Oct 2021$572,500
2022$592,500$497,500
Apr 2022$600,000
July 2022$580,000
Oct 2022$557,500
2023$540,000$475,000
Apr 2023$585,000
July 2023$570,000
Oct 2023$601,000
2024$600,000$504,500
Apr 2024$615,000
July 2024$645,000
Oct 2024$660,000
2025$630,000$557,500
Apr 2025$635,000
July 2025$700,000
Oct 2025$731,000
2026$725,000
Apr 2026$750,000
  • The headline growth figure uses a repeat-sales index of all dwellings (the same homes resold), which removes mix-of-what-sold noise; the tiles compare 12-month medians per dwelling type, so the two can differ slightly.
  • Unit medians are yearly because strata volumes are low; treat them as indicative.
  • Quarters with fewer than three house sales are left off the chart; one sale does not make a market median.

Cessnock street by street

Across 167 streets with enough house sales to compare, five-year medians on actively trading streets run from $120,000 on Racecourse Road to $1,637,500 on Government Road.

Most expensive street (houses)

Government Road

$1,637,500 five-year median · 6 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Racecourse Road

$120,000 five-year median · 9 sales

Cessnock streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
StreetHouse medianHouse salesUnit medianUnit sales
Saxonvale Grove$946k11—3
Birkdale Boulevard$700k13—1
Muscat Place$700k9——
Shiraz Grove$700k5——
Portrush Avenue$689k19$625k7
Turnberry Avenue$684k24——
Cumberland Street$674k16—4
Fairview Place$673k12$522k31
Ash Street$661k8——
O'Shea Circuit$660k50$530k20
Leonard Street$650k23——
Tulloch Terrace$650k6——
Links Avenue$647k11$310k5
Hosking Place$645k5——
Lindeman Grove$638k5—2
Clare Street$630k17——
Millfield Street$620k7——
Myra Street$620k11——
Tempranillo Crescent$613k38——
Regent Street$610k25—4
Zinfandel Circuit$605k25$505k5
Brunello Street$600k11——
Marsanne Close$595k20——
Picton Street$595k7——
Tyrrell Grove$595k6—4
  • A street needs at least 5 sales of a type in 10 years to get a median, so streets quieter than that are left out entirely. Rankings use house sales only, so unit-heavy streets and residential parks are not mislabelled as cheap streets.
  • The highlight cards quote each street's last-5-years median (at least 5 sales in that window), so they reflect prices a buyer could pay now; the table shows the full 10-year view.
  • Prices are as-paid and not inflation-adjusted.

What buyers paid in Cessnock

Half of the 746 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $600,000 and $760,750.

0336699132Median $680k$400k$500k$600k$700k$800k$900k$950k
Middle 50% of sales: $600k – $761k
Median $680k
677 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median has its own figure at the top of the page.
  • Chart covers $400,000 to $950,000: 69 of the 746 house sales fall outside it (the cheapest and dearest few) and are left out so a handful of outliers cannot distort the shape.

Rent in Cessnock by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $570/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
1-bedroom
$370/wk
2-bedroom
$480/wk
3-bedroom
$570/wk
4-bedroom
$650/wk
5-bedroom
$765/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$330/wk
2-bedroom
$460/wk
3-bedroom
$550/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2325 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 1-bedroom houses +16.4% year on year.

Who lives in Cessnock

Cessnock has a median age of 40 and a median household income of $1,192 a week, and 58.7% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Cessnock)
16,300
Median age (Cessnock)
40 years
Median household income (Cessnock)
$1,192/wk
People per square kilometre
454
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$66,750
Average household size (SA2)
2.5
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$1,517/month
Australian-born (postcode)
86.9%
SEIFA advantage decile (Cessnock)
1 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
461
How Cessnock homes are held
Owned outright
30.9% · 1,744
Owned with a mortgage
27.8% · 1,567
Rented
37.7% · 2,128
Cessnock homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
4.8% · 267
2 bedrooms
20.6% · 1,143
3 bedrooms
48.5% · 2,688
4 bedrooms
23.3% · 1,288
5 or more
2.7% · 152
ABS SEIFA 2021 deciles · 10 of 10 = most advantaged nationally
Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD)
from income, education, occupation and housing
1 of 10
Relative disadvantage (IRSD)
from low income, low education and unskilled occupations
1 of 10
Economic resources (IER)
from household income, wealth and housing costs
1 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)
from qualifications and skilled work
1 of 10
  • Figures labelled Cessnock are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Cessnock" and postcode 2325 both extend beyond Cessnock.
  • SEIFA decile 1 is the lowest tenth of Australian areas on that index and 10 the highest. The four indices measure different things and often disagree, which is why all four are shown: a suburb can rank high on education and occupation while ranking mid on economic resources.

Bushfire, flood and planning in Cessnock

8.4% of Cessnock properties sit in a mapped bushfire-prone area; no flood mapping is available in our dataset for this suburb.

Properties in a mapped bushfire-prone area
8.4%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
63
Land zoning of properties
R3 Medium Density Residential (56%), R2 Low Density Residential (36%), MU1 Mixed Use (3%)
  • Bushfire-prone land is the NSW RFS certified map; being inside it triggers extra building requirements, not a prediction of fire.
  • Absence of flood mapping in our dataset is NOT evidence a property cannot flood: always order a council s10.7 certificate before buying.

Schools serving Cessnock

Most Cessnock homes fall in the Cessnock Wps intake zone.

Schools located in Cessnock
SchoolSectorTypeICSEA
Cessnock East Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary835
Cessnock High SchoolGovernmentSecondary892
Cessnock Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary876
Cessnock West Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary884
St Patrick's Primary SchoolCatholicPrimary975
Public primary catchment (40% of homes)
Cessnock Wps
Public primary catchment (30% of homes)
Nulkaba Public School
Public secondary catchment (70% of homes)
Mt View High School
Public secondary catchment (30% of homes)
Cessnock High School
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Cessnock · 5 schools
8th · 884
Cessnock LGA
17th · 926
Newcastle & Hunter
38th · 981
NSW
51st · 1009
Australia
51st · 1008
  • ICSEA is ACARA's socio-educational index (average 1000). It describes the family backgrounds of the students enrolled, NOT how well a school teaches: a lower ICSEA means a less advantaged intake, not a worse school.
  • Percentiles are ACARA's own national ranking, so the Australia bar is a published figure rather than our arithmetic. Each area shows the median of the mainstream schools sitting inside it; special schools are listed in the table but excluded from the medians.
  • Catchments are NSW Department of Education intake zones; always confirm an address with the school.

Crime and safety around Cessnock

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 2,549 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2325, 69.7% above the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Cessnock LGA (12m)
6,196
of which assault (LGA)
886
of which theft (LGA)
1,857
Recorded incidents, postcode 2325 (12m)
3,329
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2325 (Cessnock + neighbours)
2,549
Cessnock LGA
2,483
Newcastle & Hunter
2,215
NSW
1,502
  • Counts are BOCSAR recorded incidents for January 2025 to December 2025 at LGA and postcode grain: both cover several suburbs, so they include neighbours of Cessnock.
  • Rates divide incidents by resident population (ABS 2021 Census), so they are comparable between areas in a way raw counts are not. Every tier uses the same offences and the same 12 months for January 2025 to December 2025.
  • Two limits worth knowing: the rate counts residents only, so a postcode with a town centre, nightlife strip or shopping precinct carries crime generated by visitors against a small resident denominator and reads high; and the population is the 2021 Census, so a suburb that has grown fast since then reads high too.

Suburbs near Cessnock

Cessnock's median house price of $680,000 is the 4th highest of the 5 Newcastle & Hunter suburbs we cover.

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Cessnock: common questions

What is the median house price in Cessnock?
$680,000, based on 746 house sales over the 24 months to July 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Cessnock?
Among streets with enough sales in the last five years, Government Road has the highest house median at $1,637,500 (6 sales); Racecourse Road has the lowest at $120,000 (9 sales).
How much have Cessnock property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Cessnock dwellings has risen 129.9% over 10 years and moved +57.4% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Cessnock?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2325 rents for $570/wk, from 363 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Cessnock?
Cessnock Wps (public primary catchment (40% of homes)); Nulkaba Public School (public primary catchment (30% of homes)); Mt View High School (public secondary catchment (70% of homes)); Cessnock High School (public secondary catchment (30% of homes)).
Is Cessnock affected by bushfire or flood risk?
8.4% of properties sit in the NSW RFS bushfire-prone land map. No flood mapping is available in our dataset for this suburb; that is not evidence properties cannot flood; check a council s10.7 certificate.

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Data sources

This page summarises public government datasets for general information. It is not financial, legal or property advice, figures can contain source errors, and postcode or SA2 statistics cover a wider area than the suburb itself. Verify anything material independently before acting on it.