Charlestown (NSW 2290): property prices, streets & suburb profile

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

Charlestown · NSW 2290 · median house price (24 months)
$1,000,000+92.0%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Charlestown has about 5,704 dwellings on record, with 431 house and 272 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 169 streets.
Median house price
$1,000,000
431 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$690,000
272 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$725/wk
293 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
3.8%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 16
homes on record trades each year
Nearest train station
Kotara Railway Station
1.6 km away

Charlestown house and unit prices

The median Charlestown house sold for $1,000,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +92.0% over 10 years and +41.1% over 5 years.

1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+15.7%
+22.9%
+54.9%
+108.6%
Units
+11.5%
+11.3%
+47.5%
+92.1%

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
Charlestown
$1,100,000
Lake Macquarie LGA
$1,000,000
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
418k609k800k990k1.18M20172019202120232025
View as table
PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$512,500
Oct 2015$535,000
2016$557,500$370,000
Apr 2016$512,500
July 2016$535,455
Oct 2016$564,000
2017$620,000$455,000
Apr 2017$600,000
July 2017$622,500
Oct 2017$660,000
2018$607,500$490,000
Apr 2018$639,000
July 2018$615,000
Oct 2018$638,750
2019$607,500$440,000
Apr 2019$570,111
July 2019$580,000
Oct 2019$638,500
2020$628,000$460,000
Apr 2020$661,000
July 2020$660,000
Oct 2020$668,000
2021$775,000$562,500
Apr 2021$764,000
July 2021$865,000
Oct 2021$952,500
2022$975,000$662,800
Apr 2022$897,500
July 2022$880,000
Oct 2022$875,000
2023$902,500$607,500
Apr 2023$902,500
July 2023$875,000
Oct 2023$899,000
2024$900,000$650,000
Apr 2024$910,000
July 2024$911,000
Oct 2024$930,000
2025$910,000$690,000
Apr 2025$1,000,000
July 2025$1,000,000
Oct 2025$1,100,000
2026$1,100,000
Apr 2026$1,125,000
  • 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.

Charlestown street by street

Across 110 streets with enough house sales to compare, five-year medians on actively trading streets run from $720,000 on Mimosa Avenue to $1,602,500 on Green Valley Road.

Most expensive street (houses)

Green Valley Road

$1,602,500 five-year median · 6 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Mimosa Avenue

$720,000 five-year median · 5 sales

Charlestown streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
StreetHouse medianHouse salesUnit medianUnit sales
Charles Street$1.51M8$550k257
Timbercrest Ch$1.35M19——
Green Valley Road$1.29M10——
Birkwood Close$1.22M12——
Jergi Close$1.04M10—1
Highland Close$1.02M16——
Jarrod Close$1.01M6——
Bradman Street$1.01M23——
Aintree Close$985k6$491k12
Smith Street$975k7$510k33
Hallam Street$970k12——
Tirriki Street$939k59$595k13
Birrong Place$930k5——
Tallowood Circuit$923k13——
Guna Street$921k7—3
Aberfeldy Close$920k10——
Kalora Crescent$920k21——
Kaleen Street$904k22$620k15
Maltarra Place$900k7——
Glider Court$890k6——
Kalinda Parade$890k19——
Alexander Parade$888k28——
Hampshire Place$887k26——
Arnold Street$880k33——
Hazleton Grove$880k11——
  • 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 Charlestown

Half of the 431 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $890,000 and $1,190,000.

022446688Median $1.00M$600k$800k$1.00M$1.20M$1.40M$1.60M$1.70M
Middle 50% of sales: $890k – $1.19M
Median $1.00M
395 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median has its own figure at the top of the page.
  • Chart covers $600,000 to $1,700,000: 36 of the 431 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 Charlestown by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $725/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
1-bedroom
$420/wk
2-bedroom
$595/wk
3-bedroom
$725/wk
4-bedroom
$870/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$425/wk
2-bedroom
$572/wk
3-bedroom
$750/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2290 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 3-bedroom units +17.2% year on year.

Who lives in Charlestown

Charlestown has a median age of 38 and a median household income of $1,839 a week, and 71.9% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Charlestown)
13,601
Median age (Charlestown)
38 years
Median household income (Charlestown)
$1,839/wk
People per square kilometre
1,912
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$78,735
Average household size (SA2)
2.5
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$2,000/month
Australian-born (postcode)
85.9%
SEIFA advantage decile (Charlestown)
7 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
355
How Charlestown homes are held
Owned outright
34.6% · 1,832
Owned with a mortgage
37.4% · 1,981
Rented
26.2% · 1,387
Charlestown homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
4.3% · 225
2 bedrooms
18.7% · 981
3 bedrooms
47.4% · 2,483
4 bedrooms
23.6% · 1,236
5 or more
6.0% · 315
ABS SEIFA 2021 deciles · 10 of 10 = most advantaged nationally
Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD)
from income, education, occupation and housing
7 of 10
Relative disadvantage (IRSD)
from low income, low education and unskilled occupations
7 of 10
Economic resources (IER)
from household income, wealth and housing costs
5 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)
from qualifications and skilled work
7 of 10
  • Figures labelled Charlestown are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Adamstown - Kotara" and postcode 2290 both extend beyond Charlestown.
  • 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 Charlestown

28.6% of Charlestown 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
28.6%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
7
Land zoning of properties
R2 Low Density Residential (48%), R3 Medium Density Residential (29%), E2 Commercial Centre (13%)
  • 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 Charlestown

Most Charlestown homes fall in the Charlestown Public School intake zone.

Schools located in Charlestown
SchoolSectorTypeICSEA
Charlestown East Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,036
Charlestown Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,037
Charlestown South Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,075
Hillsborough Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,020
St Joseph's Primary SchoolCatholicPrimary1,102
Public primary catchment (52% of homes)
Charlestown Public School
Public primary catchment (14% of homes)
Charlestown Sps
Public secondary catchment (78% of homes)
Whitebridge High School
Public secondary catchment (11% of homes)
Cardiff High School
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Charlestown · 5 schools
63rd · 1037
Lake Macquarie LGA
47th · 1000
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 Charlestown

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 1,624 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2290, 8.1% above the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Lake Macquarie LGA (12m)
15,356
of which assault (LGA)
1,926
of which theft (LGA)
4,898
Recorded incidents, postcode 2290 (12m)
2,563
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2290 (Charlestown + neighbours)
1,624
Lake Macquarie LGA
1,631
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 Charlestown.
  • 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 Charlestown

Charlestown's median house price of $1,000,000 is the highest of the 5 Newcastle & Hunter suburbs we cover.

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Charlestown: common questions

What is the median house price in Charlestown?
$1,000,000, based on 431 house sales over the 24 months to July 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Charlestown?
Among streets with enough sales in the last five years, Green Valley Road has the highest house median at $1,602,500 (6 sales); Mimosa Avenue has the lowest at $720,000 (5 sales).
How much have Charlestown property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Charlestown dwellings has risen 92.0% over 10 years and moved +41.1% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Charlestown?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2290 rents for $725/wk, from 293 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Charlestown?
Charlestown Public School (public primary catchment (52% of homes)); Charlestown Sps (public primary catchment (14% of homes)); Whitebridge High School (public secondary catchment (78% of homes)); Cardiff High School (public secondary catchment (11% of homes)).
Is Charlestown affected by bushfire or flood risk?
28.6% 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.