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Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin

New South Wales · Lower Hunter, Hunter Valley exc Newcastle

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Children under 15 are 22.4% of residents, against 17.9% in the middle New South Wales area (Census 2021). A 3-bedroom house rents for $588 a week, against $713 in the middle New South Wales area. The median house price in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin is $822k, about 36% below the middle New South Wales area ($1.28M).

Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin has 4 schools (3 government, 1 non-government; ACARA School Profile 2025) and 11 NQS-rated childcare services (ACECQA register). Population is 16,413 (ABS ERP June 2025).

Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin at a glance

Median house price
$821,500
Up 16.8% in a year
Rent: $588 a week, 3-bedroom house
Family-Fit score
78/100
Very strong for families
How it is calculated
Schools
4
Area centre zoned to Branxton Public School
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Childcare services
11
10 rated Meeting NQS or above
Population
16,413
+6.8% in a year
Fast-growing since 2021
Median age
36
22.4% are children under 15
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How the Family-Fit score is built78/100

Family-Fit score

Method published in full
78 /100
Very strong for families

Very strong for families - strongest on childcare & early years, weakest on socio-economic profile.

Schools in the area · 20% of the score
67/100

NSW median 70/100

4 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 937

Childcare & early years · 15% of the score
100/100

NSW median 90/100

11 NQS-rated services nearby

Everyday amenities · 15% of the score
89/100

NSW median 78/100

22 parks · no GP mapped (not counted) · 2 supermarkets · 7 playgrounds

Getting around · 15% of the score
100/100

NSW median 50/100

2 train stations in this SA2 (no train-time data for NSW yet)

Housing affordability · 15% of the score
57/100

NSW median 38/100

Paying over 30% of income on housing: 12.6% of mortgage-holding households, 26.4% of renting households

Families already here · 10% of the score
85/100

NSW median 67/100

22.4% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 45.9% of families are couples with children

Socio-economic profile · 10% of the score
44/100

NSW median 56/100

SEIFA IRSAD decile 5 of 10 nationally

The grey marker on each bar is the median across the 612 New South Wales areas we publish a score for (state median overall: 64/100). It is context, not a pass mark.

How this score is calculated

Each published figure for the Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin SA2 is mapped onto 0–100 by fixed thresholds, then weighted. Inputs with no data here are dropped and the rest rescaled - never scored as zero. Every threshold and weight →

Schools in the area 67/100 × 20% → 13.5 points
4 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 937
Childcare & early years 100/100 × 15% → 15 points
11 NQS-rated services nearby
Everyday amenities 89/100 × 15% → 13.3 points
22 parks · no GP mapped (not counted) · 2 supermarkets · 7 playgrounds
Getting around 100/100 × 15% → 15 points
2 train stations in this SA2 (no train-time data for NSW yet)
Housing affordability 57/100 × 15% → 8.6 points
Paying over 30% of income on housing: 12.6% of mortgage-holding households, 26.4% of renting households
Families already here 85/100 × 10% → 8.4 points
22.4% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 45.9% of families are couples with children
Socio-economic profile 44/100 × 10% → 4.4 points
SEIFA IRSAD decile 5 of 10 nationally

School results, crime and flood or bushfire overlays are not graded into this score. Limits of the score →

What families notice
In their own terms

What families notice

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Families often notice
  • This address is zoned to Branxton Public School (government, no fees).
  • 22 parks mapped inside this SA2 (OpenStreetMap).
Source: Templated from the live data on this page - ABS, ACARA, ACECQA, BOCSAR/CSA Victoria, SEIFA 2021.
Living in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin: family snapshot
Family snapshot

Living in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin

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A mid-sized suburb particularly popular with young families. Growing quickly - population is up 6.8% in the past year. Many childcare options nearby - 11 NQS-rated services. Mostly detached family homes.

Source: ABS population estimates · ABS Census 2021 · ACARA · ACECQA
Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin compared with New South Wales10 measures
Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin compared with the NSW average
Measure Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin NSW average Against NSW
Children aged 0 to 4 7.5% 5.8% Higher
Children aged 5 to 14 14.9% 12.4% Higher
Couple families with children 45.9% 44.5% Higher
One-parent families 14.0% 15.9% Lower
Homes owned outright 28.7% 31.9% Lower
Homes owned with a mortgage 48.5% 33.7% Higher
Homes rented 21.5% 32.5% Lower
Separate houses 94.7% 67.4% Higher
Flats and apartments 0.4% 20.3% Lower
Born overseas 9.0% 29.3% Lower

Source: ABS Census 2021. The NSW figure is the population-weighted average of the 641 NSW areas with a published value. "Higher" and "Lower" describe the number only.

About this area and its boundary

Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin is a locality in the Lower Hunter area of New South Wales. This profile draws on ABS population and Census figures, the ACARA school register and ACECQA childcare ratings for the Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin SA2.

16,413 residents - 22.4% are children under 15, median age 36.

Why “Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin”? The ABS divides the larger suburb of Branxton into several statistical areas (SA2s); this profile covers one part of it. Other parts are listed further down. SA2 boundaries don’t always match suburb boundaries. It covers the gazetted suburbs of Greta, North Rothbury, Branxton, East Branxton, Pokolbin, Lovedale, Lower Belford and Belford and 7 more localities, drawn separately on the map above.

Property market

The median house price is $821,500, up 16.8% in a year, and a 3-bedroom house rents for a median $588 a week.

Median house price
$821,500
Mar 2026
House price, change in a year
+16.8%
Median rent, 3-bedroom house
$588
per week

Source: NSW DCJ Sales Mar 2026 · Rent Jun 2026. © State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (copyright notice).

Homes and households

Who owns the homes
29% Owned outright 49% Mortgage 22% Rented
Families
46% Couple with children 39% Couple, no children 14% One parent
Types of home
95% House 5% Townhouse 0% Apartment

Source: ABS Census 2021. Where the shares do not add to 100%, the rest is "other" or "not stated".

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Housing cost pressuremortgage and rent against income
What households here actually pay

Housing cost pressure

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In Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin, 26.4% of renting households spend more than 30% of their income on rent, and 12.6% of households with a mortgage spend more than 30% on repayments - the ABS's stretched-household threshold (Census 2021).

ABS published figures, not our calculation.

Mortgage over 30% of income
12.6%

NSW avg 17.3%

Share of households WITH a mortgage whose repayments take more than 30% of income. That's 268 of 1,872 households with a stated repayment.

Rent over 30% of income
26.4%

NSW avg 35.5%

Share of RENTING households whose rent takes more than 30% of income. That's 249 of 852 households with a stated rent.

The two figures cover different households (mortgage-holding vs renting), so never add them. How the ABS counts these → Grey marker: NSW average (622 for mortgage and 622 for rent). Census 2021 - housing costs have moved since. Not financial advice.

Source: ABS Census 2021 - Mortgage & Rent Affordability Indicator Datasets (via ABS Data by Region, SA2)
What's being built herenew homes approved, year by year
Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin · new dwellings approved

What's being built here

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307 new homes were approved in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin in the year to June 2025. Councils approved 2,223 new dwellings here across the 6 years to June 2025 - an approval is permission to build, not a home that exists yet.

307

Approved in the year to June 2025

Middle NSW area: 37

1,808

Separate houses

Private sector, over these 6 years

415

Townhouses & apartments

Private sector, over these 6 years

Counts are for the whole Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin statistical area. What these counts include → Dashed line: the median of 599New South Wales areas.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Data by region, 2011-2025 (cat. 1410.0), sourced from ABS Building Approvals, Australia (cat. 8731.0) (source, CC BY 4.0). Each year is a year ended 30 June, published for the SA2, not the suburb.

Schools and childcare

4 schools are located in the area, and the centre of the area is zoned to Branxton Public School. 11 childcare services are on the national register, 10 rated Meeting the National Quality Standard or above.

Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW + QLD catchments

Branxton Public School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin.

Sector Government
Years K-6
Students 540
ICSEA 949
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

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Zoned secondary school
RutherfordHS Government

The government Year 7 zone for the centre of Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

Also nearby - Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
Rosary Park Catholic School
Catholic 375 students
ICSEA 1002 intake context

Fee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.

We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.

To look beyond Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin, every New South Wales school is on the Australian schools and catchment zones map.

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Schools in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin

ICSEA reflects student intake context, not teaching quality (1000 = national average). Source: ACARA School Profile 2025. All NSW schools →

Childcare: 11 services

Exceeding NQS: 1Meeting NQS: 9Working Towards NQS: 1

National Quality Standard ratings from the ACECQA register, refreshed Oct 2026. Services are matched by suburb name.

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Childcare services, ratings and fees11 services
  • Tillys Play and Development Centre - Greta
    Centre-Based Care · 102 places · Greta
    Rated Mar 2024
    Exceeding NQS
  • Little Treasures Childcare
    Centre-Based Care · 149 places · Greta
    Rated Apr 2024
    Meeting NQS
  • St Nicholas Early Education Branxton
    Centre-Based Care · 104 places · Branxton
    Rated Jun 2026
    Meeting NQS
  • The Cottage Preschool and Early Learning Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 84 places · North Rothbury
    Rated Oct 2022 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Meeting NQS
  • Fair Play OOSH Branxton
    Centre-Based Care · 75 places · Branxton
    Rated Oct 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Meeting NQS
  • Fair Play OOSH Greta
    Centre-Based Care · 75 places · Greta
    Rated Dec 2023
    Meeting NQS
  • Branxton Pre-School
    Centre-Based Care · 70 places · Branxton
    Rated Apr 2024
    Meeting NQS
  • St Nicholas OOSH Branxton
    Centre-Based Care · 45 places · Branxton
    Rated Mar 2026
    Meeting NQS
  • Bees Nees Early Learning PTY LTD
    Centre-Based Care · 30 places · Branxton
    Rated Oct 2024
    Meeting NQS
  • Greta Community Pre-School
    Centre-Based Care · 20 places · Greta
    Rated Mar 2026
    Meeting NQS
  • Huntlee Early Learning Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 164 places · Branxton
    Rated Mar 2026
    Working Towards NQS
Average subsidised fee - Lower Hunter area
Centre-based day care
$13.34/hr
Outside school hours care
$10.44/hr

Mean hourly fee across CCS-approved services, December quarter 2025 - Dept of Education, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. Published at SA3 level (a wider area than this suburb's SA2), so it's an average across Lower Hunter and surrounds, not this specific service list.

Verify locations before visiting. A rating over 3 years old is flagged. What the NQS ratings mean → Childcare places per child, by suburb →

Who lives here

Fewer people born overseas than New South Wales overall: 9.0% of residents, against 29.3% statewide.

Median age
36
ABS Census 2021
Children under 15
22.4%
Above the NSW average
Born overseas
9.0%
Below the NSW average
Density
42
people per km²

Ages of people here

Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin NSW average

Share of residents in each age band, in years. Source: ABS Census 2021.

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How the area is changingCensus 2011 to 2021
People counted at the Census, 2011 to 2021
+3,503 people
2011: 9,267 2021: 12,770
Median age, 2011 to 2021
+1 year
2011: 35 2021: 36
Children aged 0 to 14, 2011 to 2021
−1.1 points
2011: 23.5% 2021: 22.4%
Born overseas, 2011 to 2021
+0.3 points
2011: 8.7% 2021: 9.0%
Speak another language at home, 2011 to 2021
+0.9 points
2011: 2.8% 2021: 3.7%
Cessnock council area, official forecast
+26,540 people
2021: 64,560 2041: 91,100

Each line is drawn on its own scale, so compare the numbers, not the heights. Source: ABS Census 2011, 2016 and 2021; Travel Zone Projections 2024 (TZP24), Transport for NSW forecast, published for the council area, not the suburb.

Census trends against the middle NSW areafull charts
Three censuses, same boundaries

Which way this area is moving

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The 2011, 2016 and 2021 Censuses for Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin, counted on today's boundaries.

People counted
+3,503 people since 2011

Usual residents counted on Census night.

Median age
+1 year since 2011

Half the residents are older than this, half younger.

Children aged 0–14
−1.1 pts since 2011

Share of all residents. The clearest signal of families arriving or moving on.

Born overseas
+0.3 pts since 2011

Share of all residents born outside Australia.

Speak another language at home
+0.9 pts since 2011

Share of residents who stated a language, speaking one other than English at home.

The dashed line is the median across the New South Wales areas we profile. How the three Censuses line up →

Source: ABS Census Time Series Profile 2021 (2011, 2016 and 2021 Censuses, SA2)
How many people will live around hereofficial forecast
Cessnock council area · official projection

How many people will live around here

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The rest of this page looks backwards. This is the one number that looks forward - and it is the state government's own, not ours. Travel Zone Projections 2024 (Transport for NSW) projects the Cessnock council area, which contains Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin along with its neighbouring suburbs, to grow to 91,100 people by 2041: 26,540 more people than the 64,560 counted in 2021.

This is the council area, not Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin. Cessnock is a whole local government area covering many suburbs, and neither state publishes a projection for a single suburb. Growth is never spread evenly across a council - a greenfield estate and an established street inside the same council will move very differently - so read this as the direction of the wider area a suburb sits in, not as a forecast for its own streets. Only the years the publisher itself lists are plotted: nothing is filled in between them, and nothing is carried past 2041. A projection is an assumption about the future, not a measurement of it, and it will be revised - this one was released 2024. These figures sit on the projection's own series, so they are not directly comparable with the ABS resident-population and Census counts elsewhere on this page, which use different geographies and different years.

Source: Travel Zone Projections 2024 (TZP24), Transport for NSW, released 2024 (source, CC BY 4.0). Published for the council area, not the suburb; figures rounded to the nearest 10.
Where this year's population change came from+6.80% in a year
Population
16,413
ABS estimate, June 2025
Growth in one year
+6.80%
2024 to 2025
Net change
+1,044
people in a year

Where did the gain come from?

+1,044
Natural increase
Births minus deaths
+207
Internal migration
Net movers from elsewhere in Australia
+807
Overseas migration
Net arrivals from overseas
+30

Reading the streams: Australian movers from other suburbs drove most of the change.

Growth vs benchmarks
Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin
+6.80%
NSW median
+0.60%
National median
+0.80%
Ages against the state average, band by band
The neighbourhood, in people

Ages of people here

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14.9% of people here are school-age children (5–14) - more than the New South Wales average of 12.4%, and 7.5% are under 5. The median age is 36.

0–4 years · before school
7.5%

NSW avg 5.8%

5–14 years · school age
14.9%

NSW avg 12.4%

15–19 years · teens
6.1%

NSW avg 5.7%

20–34 years
19.6%

NSW avg 20.3%

35–54 years
26.2%

NSW avg 26.3%

55–64 years
11.6%

NSW avg 11.9%

65 years and over
14%

NSW avg 17.6%

Share of all residents of Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census; the grey marker is the New South Wales average. How the bands and averages work →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Households and families
The neighbourhood, in people

Households and families

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60% of families here have children living at home - about the New South Wales average of 60%. The largest overseas-born communities are United Kingdom (2.9%), New Zealand (1.2%) and South Africa (0.6%). 22% of homes are rented.

Family make-up

Share of all families in the area. A small "other family" group the ABS also counts is not shown.

Couple with children
45.9%

NSW avg 44.5%

One-parent family
14%

NSW avg 15.9%

Couple, no children
39.4%

NSW avg 37.9%

What people live in

Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated structures are not shown.

Separate house
94.7%

NSW avg 67.4%

Semi-detached / townhouse
4.7%

NSW avg 11.6%

Flat or apartment
0.4%

NSW avg 20.3%

Owned or rented

Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated tenures are not shown.

Owned outright
28.7%

NSW avg 31.9%

Owned with a mortgage
48.5%

NSW avg 33.7%

Rented
21.5%

NSW avg 32.5%

Figures describe Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census; the grey marker is the New South Wales average. How these are counted →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Birthplaces, languages and communities
The neighbourhood, in people

Who lives in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin

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Top 5 overseas birthplaces shown · 94.6% born in Australia or a country not in the top five.

United Kingdom · established by 2016
2.9%

NSW avg 3.2%

New Zealand · established by 2016
1.2%

NSW avg 1.1%

South Africa · growing since 2016
0.6%

NSW avg 0.3%

Vietnam · growing since 2016
0.4%

NSW avg 0.9%

Germany · established by 2016
0.3%

NSW avg 0.1%

Nearby
Rutherford (North) - Aberglasslyn, Cessnock and Maitland also have an established United Kingdom community.
Settlement pattern
Of overseas-born residents who stated when they arrived, 10.3% arrived in the last 5 years (2016–2021) (NSW avg 16.2%) and 57.5% arrived before 2001 (NSW avg 52%).
English at home
Of residents who speak a language other than English at home and stated their English proficiency, 14.3% report speaking English “not well” or “not at all” (NSW avg 13.5%) - a self-reported ABS figure across all languages combined, not a judgement of any one community.

Figures describe Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census. The ABS publishes only the five largest communities per area, so a missing name did not rank in the top five. How these are counted →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Socio-economic index (SEIFA)decile 5 of 10
Decile (1 lowest, 10 highest)
Decile 5 of 10
Where this sits in NSW
bottom 50% of New South Wales areas

A relative comparison of the whole area against all of Australia - not a safety, liveability, or school-quality measure. What IRSAD measures → Source: ABS SEIFA 2021, IRSAD index (SA2).

Getting around and lifestyle

2 supermarkets and 22 parks are mapped in the area, and the nearest emergency department is Cessnock Hospital, 13.3 km away in a straight line.

2
Supermarkets
Middle NSW area: 2
None mapped
GPs
Middle NSW area: 0
22
Parks
Middle NSW area: 17
7
Playgrounds
Middle NSW area: 8
2
Train stations
Middle NSW area: 0
None mapped
Libraries
Middle NSW area: 1

Mapped inside the Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin boundary. A zero can mean "not mapped" rather than "not there". Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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Train to the city and nearest emergency department

Train to the city

Not published

New South Wales publishes its timetable data behind a free developer account we have not yet set up, so we show no travel time here. This is a gap on our side, not a statement about the transport in this area.

Nearest emergency department

Mapped

Cessnock Hospital · 13.3 km

Straight-line distance from the middle of this area - not a drive time. In an emergency call 000; do not plan around this figure.

Community and recreation
4
Places of worship
Middle NSW area: 1
None mapped
Community centres
Middle NSW area: 0
None mapped
Swimming pools
Middle NSW area: 0
2
Sport and fitness venues
Middle NSW area: 1
Out with a baby
1
Baby-change tables
None mapped
Baby-care rooms

Public-toilet facilities recorded on the National Public Toilet Map - not every place in the area that will let you change a baby.

About this data

Counts of features tagged in OpenStreetMap inside the Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin boundary. “Middle NSW area”: the median of 634 New South Wales areas. How these counts and times are made →

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors · baby-facility counts from the National Public Toilet Map (Continence Foundation of Australia, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, CC BY 3.0 AU)

Crime & safety in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin

Police recorded 138 incidents in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin in Jan-Dec 2025, down 3% on the year before. This is a raw count, not a rate or a rating.

Recorded incidents, 2025
138
Change on the year before
-3%
143 in 2024
Recorded incidents, 2021
136

Largest offence categories

Theft 49
Assault 21
Against justice procedures 20
Malicious damage to property 13
Drug offences 7
Is Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin safe? Here's what police recorded

Police recorded 138 criminal incidents in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin in Jan-Dec 2025 (NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), released 2026 Q3). Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe.

How much crime is recorded in Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin?

138 incidents in Jan-Dec 2025, against 143 the year before. The largest offence categories were Theft (49), Assault (21), Against justice procedures (20). These are raw counts as published, not adjusted for population. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), released 2026 Q3. Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe.

Police-recorded incident counts (Calendar years; latest = Jan-Dec 2025). Raw counts, not a rate, and not a judgement about the suburb. Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), released 2026 Q3. More on crime & safety →

© State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (copyright notice). Suburb totals are added up from published figures.

Risks

5 of the 5 planning and hazard records we hold show something in this area: bushfire, heritage controls, traffic noise, aircraft noise and acid sulfate soils. 2 more are not published for NSW - treat them as not checked.

Bushfire

Designated Bush Fire Prone Land

Present in this area

Heritage controls

In an official overlay

Present in this area

Traffic noise

Freeway or highway present

Hunter Expressway · New England Highway · Wine Country Drive · +4 more

Aircraft noise

In an official contour

Present in this area

Acid sulfate soils

Classified in the local plan

Present in this area

Each line is the extent of an official record across the whole Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin area - not a risk rating, and a specific address may or may not be affected. Not financial or insurance advice.

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All 9 checks and what each one means

Flooding

Not published

New South Wales publishes flood planning maps council by council, with no free statewide layer we can republish - check the local council's flood planning map for this area.

Bushfire

Designated Bush Fire Prone Land

Present in this area

Part of this area is mapped as Bush Fire Prone Land by the NSW Rural Fire Service. This designation is drawn broadly around vegetation across most of NSW, so read it as "check the property", not as a measure of how exposed the area is.

Heritage controls

In an official overlay

Present in this area

Part of this area sits inside the heritage layer in the local environmental plan, so changes to buildings there - extensions, demolition, sometimes even paint colours - need planning approval. It applies property by property: most homes in an area with an overlay are not in it, and being in one is a protection as much as a restriction. Almost every NSW area contains some heritage-listed land, so read this as "check the address", not as something that sets this area apart.

Traffic noise

Freeway or highway present

Hunter Expressway · New England Highway · Wine Country Drive · +4 more

7 named roads through this area carry OpenStreetMap's highest classification - a freeway, motorway or major highway, whatever the road is called locally, alongside 10 named main roads. Roads are counted by name, not by mapped segment. Where a home sits relative to them matters far more than the count - a street two blocks back can be quiet.

Aircraft noise

In an official contour

Present in this area

Part of this area sits inside an aircraft-noise contour written into the planning instrument that applies here, which adds building requirements on affected land. It marks where those controls apply, not how loud a specific home is.

Land contamination checks

Not mapped

New South Wales records contaminated land in the EPA's searchable register of notified sites rather than in a planning-scheme map layer, so we have no overlay to show for this area. Search the NSW EPA contaminated land record for a specific address - nothing mapped here means we have not checked it, not that the land is clear.

Acid sulfate soils

Classified in the local plan

Present in this area

Part of this area is classified for acid sulfate soils in the local environmental plan, which means work disturbing the soil below a set depth needs council consent. Acid sulfate soils are harmless while they stay wet and buried; digging into them - for a pool, footings, a basement or drainage - exposes them to air and produces acid that eats concrete and steel and can kill fish downstream, so excavation may need a management plan. The class describes how close the soils are likely to sit to the surface, not how bad they are. Much of the low-lying land around the coast and its rivers is classified, so read this as "check before you dig", not as something that sets this area apart.

Recorded crime

Official counts published

138 incidents

Police-recorded criminal incidents in Calendar years; latest = Jan-Dec 2025, down 3% on the prior year. A count, not a rate - busier areas with more shops, stations and visitors record more incidents than quiet ones of the same size. Full breakdown ↑

Social housing

Census figure

0.0% rented from a state or territory housing authority · 0.1% from a community housing provider

Share of occupied private dwellings here with a stated tenure (Census 2021). The middle NSW area is 1.6% public and 0.7% community, across 624 areas. Listed because families ask; it is a fact about who owns the homes, not a judgement about the people in them.

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Nearby suburbs

The six closest profiled areas in New South Wales, by distance between area centres.

Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin · 15 gazetted suburbs

The suburbs in this area

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Everything else on this page is published for Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin as a whole - one ABS statistical area covering 15 separate gazetted suburbs. These are the figures published for each of those suburbs on its own.

Gazetted suburbs inside Branxton - Greta - Pokolbin, with each suburb's own published figures.
Suburb Residents
Census 2021
Schools Median
house price
Greta 3,349 1 $810k
North Rothbury 2,502 0 $833k
Branxton 2,255 2 $833k
East Branxton 1,881 0 $833k
Pokolbin 1,049 0 $851k
Lovedale 502 0 $755k
Lower Belford 407 1 $833k
Belford 176 0 $833k

Each row is that suburb's own published figure - nothing here is the wider area's number divided up. Resident counts are the Census 2021 usual-resident count for the gazetted suburb, so they will not add up to the population at the top of this page, which is the ABS's later June 2025 estimate for the whole statistical area: a different measure on a different date. Schools are ACARA-registered schools whose published address falls inside the suburb boundary, which is not the same as the school your address is zoned to. Median house prices in New South Wales are published by postcode, not by suburb (marked *), so suburbs sharing a postcode show the same figure - it describes the postcode, not the individual suburb. Every other figure on this page - crime & safety, overlays, commute, amenities, projections, the Family-Fit score - is published for the whole statistical area and cannot be separated by suburb.

Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, General Community Profile for Suburbs and Localities; ABS ASGS Edition 3 suburb boundaries; ACARA School Location 2025; NSW Department of Communities and Justice median house sale prices (by postcode). © State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (copyright notice).

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