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Postcode 2290

Postcode 2290 covers Bennetts Green, Charlestown, Dudley, Gateshead, Hillsborough, Kahibah, Mount Hutton, Redhead, Tingira Heights and Whitebridge in NSW.

At a glance

Addresses
20,260
Suburbs
10
Council
Lake Macquarie
Federal seat
Shortland
Remoteness
Major Cities of Australia
Modified Monash
MM 1

Latitude -32.978481, longitude 151.695037 (NSW postcode centroid); coordinates are GDA2020 decimal degrees, averaged from located addresses.

Postcode 2290, NSW

Geography by address share

Shares count G-NAF addresses, including addresses with unknown allocations. They describe addresses, not population or land area.

Local government area

  • Lake Macquarie20,260 (100%)

Federal electorate

  • Shortland20,260 (100%)

State electorate

  • Charlestown17,900 (88.4%)
  • Swansea2,360 (11.6%)

Statistical Area Level 3

  • Lake Macquarie - East20,087 (99.1%)
  • Newcastle173 (0.9%)

Statistical Area Level 4

  • Newcastle and Lake Macquarie20,260 (100%)

Remoteness and Modified Monash

  • Major Cities of Australia20,260 (100%)
  • MM 1: Metropolitan20,260 (100%)

Allocations follow the boundary editions in the loaded data release. A postcode or suburb can cross an electorate or council boundary. Query a full address for its allocation.

Get this from the API

Replace YOUR_KEY with a free API key.

curl 'https://yepthere.au/v1/postcodes/2290' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY'
curl 'https://yepthere.au/v1/addresses?postcode=2290' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY'

See the API reference for response fields, query limits and pagination.