Watanobbi (NSW 2259): property prices, streets & suburb profile

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

Watanobbi · NSW 2259 · median house price (24 months)
$815,000+99.7%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Watanobbi has about 1,985 dwellings on record, with 120 house and 10 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 52 streets.
Median house price
$815,000
120 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$621,250
10 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$650/wk
504 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
4.1%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 31
homes on record trades each year
Nearest station
Wyong Railway Station
Train, 2.0 km away

Watanobbi house and unit prices

The median Watanobbi house sold for $815,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +99.7% over 10 years and +41.6% over 5 years.

Property type
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+7.7%
+19.4%
+49.1%
+87.6%

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

Median house price · 12 months to June 2026
Watanobbi
$835,000
Central Coast LGA
$1,060,000
NSW
$1,102,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
399k537k675k812k950k20172019202120232025
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$450,000
Oct 2015$450,000
2016$405,000$360,000
Apr 2016$447,500
July 2016$434,000
Oct 2016$472,000
2017$485,000
Apr 2017$465,000
July 2017$509,000
Oct 2017$502,500
2018$502,000$423,000
Apr 2018$513,500
July 2018$522,000
Oct 2018$482,500
2019$448,500
Apr 2019$440,000
July 2019$485,000
Oct 2019$437,500
2020$469,000$420,000
Apr 2020$575,000
July 2020$492,500
Oct 2020$490,000
2021$605,000$557,570
Apr 2021$640,000
July 2021$640,500
Oct 2021$726,000
2022$720,000
Apr 2022$825,000
July 2022$767,500
Oct 2022$610,000
2023$712,500$610,000
Apr 2023$687,000
July 2023$720,000
Oct 2023$717,500
2024$732,500$628,000
Apr 2024$775,000
July 2024$737,000
Oct 2024$775,000
2025$780,000$615,000
Apr 2025$838,000
July 2025$800,000
Oct 2025$850,000
2026$837,500
Apr 2026$905,000
  • 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.

Watanobbi street by street

Across the 24 Watanobbi streets that qualify for the ranking, five-year medians run from $620,000 on Pacific Highway to $950,000 on Forster Avenue.

Most expensive street (houses)

Forster Avenue

$950,000 five-year median · 9 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Pacific Highway

$620,000 five-year median · 6 sales

House sales over the last five years, by price
193 sales
  • under $700k
  • $700k to $800k
  • $800k and above

Each dot is one house sale over the last five years, 193 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. It draws 22 of the 24 ranked streets, leaving off 2 whose sales are geocoded to a point several streets share, which stands for the suburb rather than for anywhere on the street; the colour bands are cut over all 24 of them, and the table below has them all.

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Street medians, five years of house sales
StreetMedianSales (5 years)
Forster Avenue$950k9
Ninian Close$858k6
Guardian Road$850k6
Heron Close$822k6
Brittania Drive$800k35
Dunrossil Avenue$780k5
Weaver Crescent$750k7
Fishburn Crescent$750k14
Harrington Close$742k6
Camden Way$740k6
Charmian Crescent$735k9
Everitt Place$734k8
De L'Isle Drive$715k5
Nicole Close$710k5
Northcott Avenue$705k8
Golf Links Drive$699k9
Casey Drive$697k32
Farnol Place$695k7
Watanobbi Road$690k16
Hasluck Drive$675k6
Isaacs Close$630k5
Pacific Highway$620k6
Watanobbi streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
Heron Close$814k7$510k6
Friendship Place$778k6
Guardian Road$752k13
Everitt Place$720k11
Gorman Close$720k5
Camden Way$710k11
Weaver Crescent$683k12
Ninian Close$681k15
Fishburn Crescent$680k28
The Grove$680k12
Forster Avenue$672k181
Mead Way$665k63
Augusta Close$665k6
Farnol Place$663k11
Cowan Street$661k5
Charmian Crescent$654k16
Meadow Road$650k5
The Terrace$626k12
Brittania Drive$619k861
Watanobbi Road$610k33$558k7
Hasluck Drive$600k13
Harrington Close$575k11
Casey Drive$565k63
De L'Isle Drive$565k143
Kiah Way$564k102
  • 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 Watanobbi

Half of the 120 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $730,000 and $891,250.

06121723Median $815k$600k$700k$800k$900k$1.00M$1.10M
Middle 50% of sales: $730k – $891k
Median $815k
110 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median is quoted separately.
  • Chart covers $600,000 to $1,100,000: 10 of the 120 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 Watanobbi by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $650/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
1-bedroom
$380/wk
2-bedroom
$500/wk
3-bedroom
$650/wk
4-bedroom
$780/wk
5-bedroom
$925/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$390/wk
2-bedroom
$500/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2259 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 3-bedroom townhouses +12.1% year on year.

Who lives in Watanobbi

Watanobbi has a median age of 35 and a median household income of $1,315 a week, and 56.4% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Watanobbi)
3,980
Median age (Watanobbi)
35 years
Median household income (Watanobbi)
$1,315/wk
People per square kilometre
2,285
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$68,397
Average household size (SA2)
2.4
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$1,690/month
Australian-born (postcode)
80.6%
SEIFA advantage decile (Watanobbi)
2 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
952
How Watanobbi homes are held
Owned outright
21.7% · 304
Owned with a mortgage
34.8% · 488
Rented
41.2% · 578
Watanobbi homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
3.5% · 48
2 bedrooms
7.5% · 104
3 bedrooms
53.0% · 734
4 bedrooms
29.9% · 414
5 or more
6.2% · 86
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
1 of 10
Economic resources (IER)from household income, wealth and housing costs
2 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)from qualifications and skilled work
2 of 10
  • Figures labelled Watanobbi are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Wyong" and postcode 2259 both extend beyond Watanobbi.
  • 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 Watanobbi

45.9% of Watanobbi 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
45.9%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
0
Land zoning of properties
R2 Low Density Residential (60%), R1 General Residential (39%), E3 Productivity Support (0%)
  • 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 Watanobbi

Most Watanobbi homes fall in the Wyong Public School intake zone.

Public primary catchment
Wyong Public School
Public secondary catchment
Wyong 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 Watanobbi

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 1,821 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2259, 21.2% above the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Central Coast LGA (12m)
29,210
of which assault (LGA)
3,583
of which theft (LGA)
7,195
Recorded incidents, postcode 2259 (12m)
7,144
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2259 (Watanobbi + neighbours)
1,821
Central Coast LGA
1,572
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 Watanobbi.
  • 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 Watanobbi

The most recent house sales on record in Watanobbi are from 2026, 16 of them. Search a street to see what it has been fetching.

Forster Avenue2026$1.10M
Ninian Close2026$1.06M
Ninian Close2026$1.01M
Brittania Drive2026$970k
Forster Avenue2026$960k
Watanobbi Road2026$922k
Brittania Drive2026$865k
De L'Isle Drive2026$855k
Charmian Crescent2026$840k
Everitt Place2026$830k
Farnol Place2026$817k
Casey Drive2026$808k

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 Watanobbi

Watanobbi's median house price of $815,000 is the 42nd highest of the 48 Central Coast suburbs we cover.

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Watanobbi: common questions

What is the median house price in Watanobbi?
$815,000, based on 120 house sales over the 24 months to June 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Watanobbi?
Of the 24 Watanobbi streets that qualify for the five-year ranking, Forster Avenue has the highest house median at $950,000 (9 sales); Pacific Highway has the lowest at $620,000 (6 sales).
How much have Watanobbi property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Watanobbi dwellings has risen 99.7% over 10 years and moved +41.6% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Watanobbi?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2259 rents for $650/wk, from 504 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Watanobbi?
Wyong Public School (primary); Wyong High School (secondary).
Is Watanobbi affected by bushfire or flood risk?
45.9% 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.