Chain Valley Bay NSW 2259

Living Here

Chain Valley Bay is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 2,773 people, with a median age of 63. The typical household earns around $866 a week, with median rent near $370 a week. Most homes are houses. About 88% of households own their home and 10% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Lake Munmorah - Mannering Park statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Chain Valley Bay itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 6 schools

  • St Brigid's Catholic College
  • St Brendan's Catholic School
  • Lake Munmorah High School
  • Lake Munmorah Public School
  • Mannering Park Public School
  • Gwandalan Public School
• 1 supermarket

  • Woolworths
• 9 parks

  • Teragalin Drive Reserve
  • Mulloway Road Foreshore
  • Joshua Porter Reserve
  • Chain Valley Bay Reserve
  • Kingfisher Reserve
  • RFS Park
  • McCulloch Reserve
  • Munmorah Summerland Point Lions Park
  • Tom Burke Reserve
• 4 hospitals

  • Morisset Hospital
  • Moriseset Comunity Health Centre
  • Tuggerah Lakes Private Hospital
  • Wyong Hospital
• 1 library

  • Gwandalan Library
• 2 post offices

  • Summerland Point Post Office
  • Gwandalan Post Office
• 4 service stations

  • BP
  • Woolworths Petrol
  • U-GO
  • Coles Express
• 1 gym

  • Mannering Park Amateur Sailing Club
• 1 golf club

  • Toukley Golf Course
• 8 places to stay

  • Teraglin Lakeshore Home Village
  • Chain Valley Bay Van Village
  • Lake Munmorah Motel
  • Lakeside Leisure Manuafactured Home Village
  • Ingenia Holidays Lake Macquarie
  • Sunnylake Shores
  • Bevington Shores Manufactured Home VIllage
  • Mecca Caravan Park

Getting around. Train station: Wyee, 7.8 km west · Airport: Lake Macquarie Airport, 14 km north-east.

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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: 65.9% 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 5.7% · Labour-force participation 34%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

14,529 bird observations recorded near Chain Valley Bay — most often seen:

• Rainbow Lorikeet (1,193)
• Yellow-faced Honeyeater (958)
• White-cheeked Honeyeater (692)
• Laughing Kookaburra (572)
• Eastern Spinebill (559)
• Australian Magpie (529)
• Silvereye (526)
• Noisy Miner (509)
• Superb Fairy-wren (492)
• South-eastern Little Wattlebird (477)
• Eastern Australian Raven (470)
• Eastern Rainbow Lorikeet (469)
• White-bellied Sea-eagle (458)

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 Chain Valley Bay:

• Kingfisher Shores (1.6 km)
• Doyalson North (1.7 km)
• Lake Munmorah (2.3 km)
• Wybung (2.5 km)
• Crangan Bay (2.5 km)
• Freemans (3.7 km)
• Moonee (3.8 km)
• Mannering Park (3.9 km)

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