Suburbs with the biggest blocks in Newcastle
Pelaw Main has the biggest house blocks, with a median of 1,010 m². These 15 suburbs came from a field of 118 eligible Newcastle suburbs.
This ranking orders Newcastle suburbs by the median land area of a house block: every lot in the suburb that holds a single address, measured from the state's land titles map. Strata and dual-occupancy sites are left out, so a block of flats does not count as one big block.
Suburbs whose median block is over 2,000 m² are listed separately as acreage, because ranked together they would fill the whole list with semi-rural land on the edge of the city. A suburb needs at least 1,000 residents and 50 house blocks to be ranked, and between 15 and 60 single-address lots per 100 residents: fewer means mostly apartments, more means mostly industry. Lots come from the state land titles maps of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT; Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not publish theirs openly, so there is no ranking there.
Newcastle suburbs with the biggest house blocks
Ranked on the median land area of a house block: lots holding one address, so strata and dual-occupancy sites are left out. Suburbs whose median block is over 2,000 m² are in the acreage list instead.
Pelaw Main
NSW 2327 · 1,080 residents1,010 m² median house block · 409 house blocks
Aberdare
NSW 2325 · 2,542 residents1,005 m² median house block · 904 house blocks
Bolwarra Heights
NSW 2320 · 3,436 residents997 m² median house block · 1,153 house blocks
Coal Point
NSW 2283 · 1,749 residents983 m² median house block · 781 house blocks
Bolwarra
NSW 2320 · 1,350 residents949 m² median house block · 573 house blocks
Abermain
NSW 2326 · 2,544 residents915 m² median house block · 981 house blocks
Kilaben Bay
NSW 2283 · 1,516 residents876 m² median house block · 599 house blocks
Buttaba
NSW 2283 · 1,204 residents835 m² median house block · 607 house blocks
Largs
NSW 2320 · 1,962 residents826 m² median house block · 682 house blocks
Lakelands
NSW 2282 · 1,445 residents810 m² median house block · 491 house blocks
Weston
NSW 2326 · 4,088 residents809 m² median house block · 1,532 house blocks
Holmesville
NSW 2286 · 1,413 residents809 m² median house block · 538 house blocks
Ashtonfield
NSW 2323 · 4,589 residents799 m² median house block · 1,566 house blocks
Blackalls Park
NSW 2283 · 2,812 residents796 m² median house block · 1,052 house blocks
Wangi Wangi
NSW 2267 · 2,920 residents790 m² median house block · 1,286 house blocks
Ranked from 118 qualifying suburbs.
Newcastle acreage suburbs
Suburbs whose median house block is over 2,000 m², ranked on that median.
Too few Newcastle suburbs qualify for this list to rank them: it needs at least 8.
Common questions about this ranking
What are the suburbs with the biggest blocks in Newcastle?
Pelaw Main has the biggest house blocks, with a median of 1,010 m². These 15 suburbs came from a field of 118 eligible Newcastle suburbs.
How is block size measured for Newcastle suburbs?
From the state land titles map: every lot in the suburb that holds exactly one address, with its area calculated from the lot boundary. The figure is the median of those lots, so half the suburb's house blocks are bigger and half smaller. Strata lots and blocks shared by several addresses are left out.
Why are acreage suburbs listed separately?
Suburbs whose median block is over 2,000 m² are mostly semi-rural land on the edge of the city. Ranked together with suburban streets they would fill the whole list, so they have a list of their own.
Why is a suburb I know has big blocks missing?
A suburb needs at least 1,000 residents and 50 house blocks, and between 15 and 60 single-address lots per 100 residents. Fewer means the suburb is mostly apartments with a few large commercial lots; more means it is mostly industry. Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not publish their land titles maps openly, so suburbs there are not ranked.
Same list in other cities
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Rankings last computed 11 October 2026. Recomputed after each ACARA schools data refresh.
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