Lemon Tree Passage (NSW 2319): property prices, streets & suburb profile

Port Stephens LGA · Latest published data August 2026 · Page updated August 2026 · Public government records

Lemon Tree Passage · NSW 2319 · median house price (24 months)
$740,000+111.3%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Lemon Tree Passage has about 1,372 dwellings on record, with 126 house and 14 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 45 streets.
Median house price
$740,000
126 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$585,000
14 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$600/wk
76 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
4.2%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 20
homes on record trades each year

Lemon Tree Passage house and unit prices

The median Lemon Tree Passage house sold for $740,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +111.3% over 10 years and +45.0% over 5 years.

Property type
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+3.2%
+6.4%
+27.3%
+89.0%

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

Median house price · 12 months to August 2026
Lemon Tree Passage
$751,000
Port Stephens LGA
$950,000
NSW
$1,100,201
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
276k411k547k683k819k20172019202120232025
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
Oct 2015$379,500
2016$352,500$284,000
Apr 2016$399,500
July 2016$420,000
Oct 2016$370,750
2017$420,000$325,000
Apr 2017$455,000
July 2017$420,000
Oct 2017$410,000
2018$457,500$290,000
Apr 2018$510,000
July 2018$467,500
Oct 2018$590,000
2019$444,000$355,000
Apr 2019$413,500
July 2019$445,000
Oct 2019$452,000
2020$525,000$357,500
Apr 2020$481,000
July 2020$442,500
Oct 2020$620,000
2021$509,000$415,000
Apr 2021$595,000
July 2021$609,500
Oct 2021$700,000
2022$760,000$450,000
Apr 2022$720,000
July 2022$755,000
Oct 2022$693,000
2023$742,500$499,250
Apr 2023$661,250
July 2023$692,500
Oct 2023$692,500
2024$681,500$509,000
Apr 2024$780,000
July 2024$707,500
Oct 2024$745,000
2025$695,000$567,500
Apr 2025$750,000
July 2025$720,000
Oct 2025$740,000
2026$765,000
Apr 2026$770,000
  • 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, and differ widely where what sold changed.
  • 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.

Lemon Tree Passage street by street

Across the 26 Lemon Tree Passage streets that qualify for the ranking, five-year medians run from $565,000 on Lemon Tree Passage Road to $1,015,000 on Cook Parade.

Most expensive street (houses)

Cook Parade

$1,015,000 five-year median · 12 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Lemon Tree Passage Road

$565,000 five-year median · 9 sales

House sales over the last five years, by price
263 sales
  • under $750k
  • $750k and above

Each dot is one house sale over the last five years, 263 in all, placed at the address that sold and shaded by what it fetched. Prices are as paid, with part shares and multi-property dealings left out.

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Street medians, five years of house sales
StreetMedianSales (5 years)
Cook Parade$1.01M12
Inala Court$841k5
Geer Close$835k5
Whitbread Drive$815k17
Morton Avenue$800k5
Francis Avenue$800k14
Beach Road$750k5
Dean Parade$750k25
Raiss Close$750k17
Malvern Road$748k8
Cambridge Avenue$740k7
Meredith Avenue$740k7
James Scott Crescent$730k11
Kenneth Parade$725k9
Northumberland Avenue$715k8
John Parade$710k17
Richard Avenue$700k5
Paroa Avenue$692k11
Purcell Avenue$690k5
Johnson Parade$690k11
Gould Drive$685k25
Elizabeth Avenue$672k10
Boyd Avenue$630k11
Torpey Avenue$630k7
William Close$620k5
Lemon Tree Passage Road$565k9
Lemon Tree Passage streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
Gibbers Drive$930k5
Cook Parade$796k224
Morton Avenue$770k6
Beach Road$750k9
Inala Court$750k9
Rose Street$716k6
Whitbread Drive$700k32
Dean Parade$689k42
Richard Avenue$678k62
Kenneth Parade$675k11
John Parade$660k414
Cambridge Avenue$658k121
Paroa Avenue$655k17
Crawley Avenue$635k6
Northumberland Avenue$635k15
Francis Avenue$632k40
Malvern Road$620k18
Boyd Avenue$618k17
Meredith Avenue$603k18$365k13
Blanch Street$600k9$413k38
Raiss Close$595k31
Elizabeth Avenue$590k18
William Close$580k10
Elaine Avenue$578k8
Purcell Avenue$574k10
  • 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.
  • Sales that moved several properties on one dealing are left out, because the record repeats that dealing's whole price against every property in it.
  • The highlight cards rank on house sales only, using each street's last-5-years median (at least 5 sales in that window), so unit-heavy streets are not mislabelled as cheap and the figures reflect prices a buyer could pay now; the table shows the full 10-year view.
  • A street is left out of the ranking when its five-year median sits below three-fifths of its own 10-year median, or far below the suburb's median (a bar set higher for streets with no older sales of their own to stand behind them). Those windows are usually land sold before the houses went up, or a part share of a home priced as though it were the whole. Those streets stay in the table with their 10-year median.
  • Prices are as-paid and not inflation-adjusted.

What buyers paid in Lemon Tree Passage

Half of the 126 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $680,000 and $885,000.

09192837Median $740k$500k$700k$900k$1.10M$1.20M
Middle 50% of sales: $680k – $885k
Median $740k
114 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median is quoted separately.
  • Chart covers $500,000 to $1,200,000: 12 of the 126 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 Lemon Tree Passage by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $600/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
2-bedroom
$500/wk
3-bedroom
$600/wk
4-bedroom
$680/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2319 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 3-bedroom houses +5.3% year on year.

Who lives in Lemon Tree Passage

Lemon Tree Passage has a median age of 52 and a median household income of $1,071 a week, and 71.1% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Lemon Tree Passage)
2,686
Median age (Lemon Tree Passage)
52 years
Median household income (Lemon Tree Passage)
$1,071/wk
People per square kilometre
904
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$59,154
Average household size (SA2)
2.3
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$1,517/month
Australian-born (postcode)
83.6%
SEIFA advantage decile (Lemon Tree Passage)
2 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
55
How Lemon Tree Passage homes are held
Owned outright
43.4% · 482
Owned with a mortgage
27.7% · 307
Rented
25.9% · 287
Lemon Tree Passage homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
2.2% · 24
2 bedrooms
13.5% · 148
3 bedrooms
53.2% · 584
4 bedrooms
26.7% · 293
5 or more
4.4% · 48
ABS SEIFA 2021 deciles · 10 of 10 = most advantaged nationally
Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD)from income, education, occupation and housing
2 of 10
Relative disadvantage (IRSD)from low income, low education and unskilled occupations
2 of 10
Economic resources (IER)from household income, wealth and housing costs
3 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)from qualifications and skilled work
2 of 10
  • Figures labelled Lemon Tree Passage are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Lemon Tree Passage - Tanilba Bay" and postcode 2319 both extend beyond Lemon Tree Passage.
  • 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 Lemon Tree Passage

28.3% of Lemon Tree Passage 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
28.3%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
1
Land zoning of properties
R2 Low Density Residential (90%), RE2 Private Recreation (5%), E4 General Industrial (2%)
  • 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 Lemon Tree Passage

Most Lemon Tree Passage homes fall in the Tanilba Bay Public School intake zone.

Public primary catchment
Tanilba Bay Public School
Public secondary catchment
Hunter River High School
  • 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 Lemon Tree Passage

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 1,234 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2319, 17.8% below the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Port Stephens LGA (12m)
5,514
of which assault (LGA)
802
of which theft (LGA)
1,377
Recorded incidents, postcode 2319 (12m)
513
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2319 (Lemon Tree Passage + neighbours)
1,234
Port Stephens LGA
1,336
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 Lemon Tree Passage.
  • 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.

Recent house sales in Lemon Tree Passage

The most recent house sales on record in Lemon Tree Passage are from 2026, 24 of them. Search a street to see what it has been fetching.

James Scott Crescent2026$1.57M
Cook Parade2026$1.23M
Cook Parade2026$1.15M
John Parade2026$1.10M
John Parade2026$1.10M
Johnson Parade2026$1.08M
Meredith Avenue2026$995k
James Scott Crescent2026$890k
Kenneth Parade2026$875k
Dean Parade2026$845k
Malvern Road2026$830k
Morton Avenue2026$800k

One row per house sale on record for the last five years, by street and the year it sold. Sale prices are as paid. Part shares and multi-property dealings are excluded, and unit sales are not included here.

Suburbs near Lemon Tree Passage

Lemon Tree Passage's median house price of $740,000 is the 78th highest of the 93 Newcastle & Hunter suburbs we cover.

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Lemon Tree Passage: common questions

What is the median house price in Lemon Tree Passage?
$740,000, based on 126 house sales over the 24 months to August 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Lemon Tree Passage?
Of the 26 Lemon Tree Passage streets that qualify for the five-year ranking, Cook Parade has the highest house median at $1,015,000 (12 sales); Lemon Tree Passage Road has the lowest at $565,000 (9 sales).
How much have Lemon Tree Passage property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Lemon Tree Passage dwellings has risen 111.3% over 10 years and moved +45.0% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Lemon Tree Passage?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2319 rents for $600/wk, from 76 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Lemon Tree Passage?
Tanilba Bay Public School (primary); Hunter River High School (secondary).
Is Lemon Tree Passage affected by bushfire or flood risk?
28.3% 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

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