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Little Pelican

19.7 km south-west of Newcastle city centreCity of Lake Macquarie6 min to Blacksmiths Beach3 min to Lake Macquarienext to Pelican and Blacksmiths

Tiny settlement on the lake between Pelican and Swansea. A handful of properties with direct lake frontage. Not really a suburb - more a locality name for properties that aren't quite Pelican or Swansea.

About Lake Macquarie

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Lake Mac Vibes editorial assessment

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YoY Growth

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Vibe Score

48/100

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 Little Pelican

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Is Little Pelican a good suburb?

Little Pelican. It scores 48/100 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 Little Pelican?

Tiny settlement on the lake between Pelican and Swansea. A handful of properties with direct lake frontage. Not really a suburb - more a locality name for properties that aren't quite Pelican or Swansea. See the full suburb profile for detailed local insights, or check a specific address to see what's happening within 500m.

Momentum: steady

Little Pelican currently reads steady, at low confidence, the pattern: tiny lake settlement between pelican and swansea.

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: Lucky 7 Blacksmiths (short drive), 2 options within 1.5km. 11 medical services mapped.

Data: OpenStreetMap · Terrain curated · Updated quarterly

Schools

Swansea Public School (primary) · NAPLAN at

Belmont High School (secondary) · NAPLAN at

Data: NSW Education · ACARA NAPLAN · MySchool

Suburbs like Little Pelican

Where else to look, and how they differ

What's happening next door

Adjacent suburbs and how their signals relate

Pelican Momentum: steady

Blacksmiths Momentum: rising

Swansea Momentum: rising

Marks Point Momentum: steady

Swansea Heads Momentum: steady

Belmont South Momentum: cooling

Risks

Safety

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 Little Pelican. 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 Little Pelican?

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

Surroundings reports from $29

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