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Moonee

26.8 km south-west of Newcastle city centreCity of Lake Macquarie13 min to Catherine Hill Bay Beach14 min to Lake Macquarienext to Catherine Hill Bay and Cams Wharf

Semi-rural lakeside locality on the southern shore near Cooranbong. Very limited residential development. One for buyers wanting acreage with lake proximity at the affordable end.

About Lake Macquarie

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Lake Mac Vibes editorial assessment

Median House

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YoY Growth

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Vibe Score

42/100

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 Moonee

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Is Moonee a good suburb?

Moonee. It scores 42/100 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 Moonee?

Semi-rural lakeside locality on the southern shore near Cooranbong. Very limited residential development. One for buyers wanting acreage with lake proximity at the affordable end. See the full suburb profile for detailed local insights, or check a specific address to see what's happening within 500m.

Momentum: steady

Moonee currently reads steady, at low confidence, the pattern: southern shore, semi-rural.

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.

Data: OpenStreetMap · Terrain curated · Updated quarterly

Schools

Catherine Hill Bay Public School (primary) · NAPLAN above

Lake Munmorah High School (secondary) · NAPLAN at

Data: NSW Education · ACARA NAPLAN · MySchool

Suburbs like Moonee

Where else to look, and how they differ

What's happening next door

Adjacent suburbs and how their signals relate

Catherine Hill Bay Momentum: steady

Cams Wharf Momentum: steady

Pinny Beach Momentum: steady

Murrays Beach Momentum: steady

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 Moonee. 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 Moonee?

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

Surroundings reports from $29

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