Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill
New South Wales · Newcastle · Newcastle and Lake Macquarie
Why “Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill”? The ABS divides the larger suburb of Wickham 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.
Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill is a locality in the Newcastle area of New South Wales. This profile draws on ABS population and Census figures, the ACARA school register and ACECQA childcare ratings for the Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill SA2.
Schools, childcare & safety
Live data for the Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill SA2 — ACARA schools register, ACECQA childcare ratings, police-recorded incidents.
Tighes Hill Public School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill.
This is the zoned in-area government school for Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill (NSW catchment data).
See the catchment on the mapWe show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Primary catchment zone shown where matched to official government data. School pins are approximate (ACARA geocoded location).
Schools in Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill
- Primary · Government · Years K-6Enrolment358ICSEA1104
- Primary · Government · Years K-6Enrolment159ICSEA1090
- Primary · Government · Years K-6Enrolment110ICSEA996
ICSEA reflects student intake context, not teaching quality (1000 = national average). All NSW schools →
Childcare & early learning
- Meeting NQSGo Kindy CarringtonCentre-Based Care · 90 places · Carrington
- Meeting NQSKinda Kapers @ Tighes HillCentre-Based Care · 75 places · Tighes Hill
- Meeting NQSThe After School Klub IslingtonCentre-Based Care · 60 places · Islington
- Meeting NQSNewcastle TAFE Children's CentreCentre-Based Care · 40 places · Tighes Hill
NQS = National Quality Standard, rated by ACECQA. Services matched by postcode — verify locations before visiting.
Safety — recorded incidents
- Incidents, latest year
- 1,708
- vs previous year
- +23%
- vs 2021
- 1,122
- Transport regulatory offences 1,390
- Theft 153
- Malicious damage to property 31
- Assault 28
- Drug offences 28
Police-recorded incident counts (Calendar years; latest = Jan-Dec 2025). These are not population-adjusted and are not a judgement about the suburb — larger, busier areas record more incidents. More on safety →
Amenities
- GPs / clinics
- 0
- Supermarkets
- 0
- Parks
- 17
- Train stations
- 0
Counts of OSM-tagged features within the Wickham - Carrington - Tighes Hill SA2 polygon. OpenStreetMap coverage varies — verify with local directories before relying on these counts.
Property & rent
- Median house price
- $950,000
- House price YoY
- -14.4%
- Median 3BR house rent
- $770/wk
Where did the gain come from?
+176Reading the streams: overseas arrivals were the dominant force — more came from abroad than the suburb grew on its own.
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