Lake Heights NSW 2502

Living Here

Lake Heights is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 4,105 people, with a median age of 36. The typical household earns around $1,356 a week, with median rent near $400 a week. Most homes are houses. About 69% of households own their home and 29% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Italian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Berkeley - Warrawong - Windang statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Lake Heights itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 17 schools

  • Lake Heights Public School
  • Warrawong High School
  • Warrawong Public School
  • Berkeley Public School
  • St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School
  • Cringila Public School
  • Illawarra Sports High School
  • Primbee Public School
  • Kemblawarra Public School
  • Berkeley West Public School

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• 3 cafés & restaurants

  • Chuu Rose
  • Starbucks
  • Central Canteen
• 3 supermarkets

  • Coles
  • Woolworths
  • ALDI
• 13 parks

  • Ranchby Avenue Park
  • Lake Heights Reserve
  • Von Guerard Park
  • Wollamai Park
  • Gladstone Park
  • Barnes Park
  • Howard Fowles Park
  • Bruce Park
  • Flagstaff Park
  • Darcy Wentworth Park

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• 4 Catholic churches

  • St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
  • St John's Catholic Church
  • St Therese
  • Sacred Heart Church
• 9 hospitals

  • Port Kembla Hospital
  • Figtree Private Hospital
  • Wollongong Private Hospital
  • Wollongong Day Surgery
  • Wollongong Hospital
  • South Coast Private Hospital
  • Victoria Street Private Hospital
  • Shellharbour Private Hospital
  • Shellharbour Hospital
• 3 libraries

  • Warrawong District Library
  • Warrawong Library
  • Unanderra Library
• 3 post offices

  • Australia Post
  • Warrawong Post Office
  • Primbee Post Office
• 5 service stations

  • Mobil Berkeley
  • BP
  • Sunset Petroleum
  • EG Ampol
  • Ampol
• 3 gyms & sports centres

  • Berkeley Sports Club
  • Illawarra Sports Stadium
  • BHP Sports Stadium
• 3 golf clubs

  • Port Kembla Golf Club
  • Kembla Grange Golf Club
  • Wollongong Golf Club
• 1 playground

  • Cringila Hills Playground
• 2 hardware stores

  • Sydney Tools
  • Bunnings Kembla Grange
• 1 mechanic

  • Unanderra Mechanical & Auto Electrics
• 2 electricians

  • Simmark Wollongong
  • Easther Electrical
• 1 plumber

  • The Clean Plumber Wollongong
• 9 places to stay

  • Pilgrim Lodge (Nan Tien Temple)
  • Port Kembla Hotel
  • Oasis by the Lake
  • Figtree Gardens Caravan Park
  • Lake Illawarra Village
  • Sovereign Motel
  • Oaklands Caravan Park
  • Windang Beach Tourist Park
  • Elsinor Motel

Getting around. Train station: Cringila, 2.1 km north-east · Railway halt: Lysaghts, 3.3 km north · Bus interchange: Station St opp Wollongong Station, 6.5 km north · Airport: Shellharbour Airport, 11 km south-west.

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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: 10.1% 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 6.6% · Labour-force participation 54.3%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

107,998 bird observations recorded near Lake Heights — most often seen:

• Silver Gull (6,913)
• Australian Pelican (6,382)
• Common Myna (6,353)
• Australian Raven (5,650)
• Magpie-lark (4,950)
• Australian White Ibis (4,710)
• Welcome Swallow (4,642)
• Little Pied Cormorant (4,543)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (4,400)
• Willie Wagtail (4,325)
• Spotted Turtle-dove (4,087)
• Australian Magpie (3,612)
• Little Black Cormorant (3,272)

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 Lake Heights:

• Warrawong (1.4 km)
• Cringila (1.4 km)
• Berkeley (2 km)
• Primbee (2.4 km)
• Port Kembla (3 km)
• Unanderra (4 km)
• Spring Hill (4.3 km)
• Mount Saint Thomas (4.7 km)

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