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Hillsborough

10.3 km south-west of Newcastle city centreCity of Lake Macquarie11 min to Dudley Beach4 min to Lake Macquarienext to Mount Hutton and Tingira Heights

Suburban neighbourhood set between the coast and Charlestown. Close to Charlestown Square, good schools, and an easy run to the beaches. The kind of reliable family suburb that performs steadily without drama.

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Lake Mac Vibes editorial assessment

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Vibe Score

56/100

Building approvals Licensed venues Late trading Contaminated land Recent sales

Basemap: OpenStreetMap via Protomaps Findings: council registers, NSW Liquor & Gaming, NSW contaminated land register

Common questions about Hillsborough

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Is Hillsborough a good suburb?

Hillsborough. It scores 56/100 on our vibe index. Momentum reads steady and the price trajectory is stable. Every figure comes from public registers and is refreshed weekly. A suburb average is not an address, so check the specific street before you commit.

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What's it like living in Hillsborough?

Suburban neighbourhood set between the coast and Charlestown. Close to Charlestown Square, good schools, and an easy run to the beaches. The kind of reliable family suburb that performs steadily without drama. See the full suburb profile for detailed local insights, or check a specific address to see what's happening within 500m.

Momentum: steady

Hillsborough currently reads steady, at low confidence, the pattern: family suburb near charlestown.

Development activity

Major projects and active development applications shaping this suburb

Dwelling House

23 Higham Road · Approved

Data: Newcastle & Lake Macquarie Councils + NSW Planning Portal

Price trajectory

Too few sales here in the past year to publish a median. A price from a handful of sales says more about those houses than about the suburb.

NSW Valuer General via nswpropertysalesdata.com

Commercial vibe

Lifestyle venues that signal neighbourhood trajectory

OpenStreetMap data · Updated monthly

Living here

Groceries, medical, terrain, transport, schools

Terrain: mostly flat. Nearest groceries: Coles Lake Macquarie (easy walk (under 5 min)), 7 options within 1.5km. 11 medical services mapped.

Data: OpenStreetMap · Terrain curated · Updated quarterly

Schools

Windale Public School (primary) · NAPLAN below

Cardiff High School (secondary) · NAPLAN at

Data: NSW Education · ACARA NAPLAN · MySchool

Suburbs like Hillsborough

Where else to look, and how they differ

What's happening next door

Adjacent suburbs and how their signals relate

Mount Hutton Momentum: rising

Tingira Heights Momentum: steady

Windale Momentum: steady

Bennetts Green Momentum: steady

Highfields Momentum: steady

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Risks

Safety

Safety rating: Very Safe · three-year trend: stable.

Data: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research · three-year momentum

Crime is counted per suburb. What a Surroundings Report adds for one address →

Noise sources

Rail: quiet, No rail corridors within 500m. Construction: No significant construction.

Data: OpenStreetMap roads · Transport for NSW traffic counts and rail corridors · NSW Liquor & Gaming

A late-trading venue two streets away is not the same as one at the fence line. Noise within 500 m of an address →

Those risks are suburb-wide. Yours might not be.

Everything above describes Hillsborough. Which of it falls within 500 m of one particular house is a different question.

What is in a Surroundings Report · from $29

Found a place in Hillsborough?

Check what's happening around any specific address: development, contamination, noise, and more within 500m.

Surroundings reports from $29

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