Bellbird Heights NSW 2325

Living Here

Bellbird Heights is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 805 people, with a median age of 40. The typical household earns around $1,487 a week, with median rent near $368 a week. Most homes are houses. About 81% of households own their home and 19% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Cessnock statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Bellbird Heights itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 9 schools

  • Cessnock West Public School
  • Bellbird Public School
  • Mount View High School
  • St Patrick's Primary School
  • Cessnock Public School
  • Cessnock High School
  • Cessnock East Public School
  • Nulkaba Public School
  • Kitchener Public School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Grinders Espresso Bar
• 4 supermarkets

  • ALDI
  • Coles
  • Woolworths
  • Ritchies
• 13 parks

  • O'Neill Park
  • O'Brien Street Playground
  • Bellbird Miners Memorial Park
  • Margaret Street Playground
  • Stephenson Park
  • Hall Park
  • Vineyard Grove Park
  • Baddeley Park
  • Buckland Avenue Park
  • Lindsay Street Park

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• 1 Catholic church

  • St. Joseph's Cessnock
• 1 medical clinic

  • West Cessnock Medical Practice
• 2 hospitals

  • Cessnock Hospital
  • Kurri Kurri District Hospital
• 1 childcare centre

  • Bellbird Pre School
• 1 library

  • Cessnock City Library
• 2 post offices

  • Cessnock West Post Office
  • Cessnock Post Office
• 4 service stations

  • 7-Eleven
  • EG Ampol
  • PKs Fuel
  • Shell
• 1 gym

  • Cessnock Swimming Pool
• 2 golf clubs

  • Stonebridge Golf Club
  • Cypress Lakes Golf & Country Club
• 1 hardware store

  • Bunnings Warehouse
• 2 places to stay

  • Cumberland Motor Inn
  • Cessnock Hotel

Getting around. Airport: Cessnock Airport, 7.4 km north.

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Socio-economic Standing

Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.

Tree cover

🌳 Tree canopy: 10.6% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.

Demographics

Unemployment 4.5% · Labour-force participation 57.8%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

11,241 bird observations recorded near Bellbird Heights — most often seen:

• Yellow-faced Honeyeater (601)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (577)
• Bell Miner (557)
• Australian Magpie (548)
• Noisy Miner (502)
• Red Wattlebird (475)
• White-naped Honeyeater (436)
• Pied Currawong (420)
• Magpie-lark (411)
• Yellow-tufted Honeyeater (411)
• Pacific Black Duck (403)
• Australian Wood Duck (402)
• Common Myna (364)

Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.

Nearby Suburbs

The closest suburbs to Bellbird Heights:

• Bellbird (1.2 km)
• Cessnock (2.6 km)
• Pelton (3.9 km)
• Aberdare (4.1 km)
• Mount View (4.7 km)
• Kitchener (4.8 km)
• Nulkaba (4.8 km)
• Kearsley (6.1 km)

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