Cardiff Heights flood & bushfire risk
Of Cardiff Heights’s 698 mapped properties, 2.4% are in a mapped flood area and 60.6% are in a bushfire hazard area.
For context, Cardiff Heights’s flood exposure is below the NSW average of 5%, and bushfire exposure is above the NSW average of 16.4%.
Check a specific Cardiff Heights address
Risk varies property by property.
Hazard exposure
Where the hazards are in Cardiff Heights
Flood and bushfire areas across Cardiff Heights. Zoom in to see how they fall relative to individual streets.
Crime near Cardiff Heights
Cardiff Heights sits in the Lake Macquarie council area, which recorded 15,313 reported offences in the 12 months to Mar 2026.
Every reported offence by type — these add up to the 15,313 total. Figures are for the whole Lake Macquarie council area (which may cover several suburbs), last 12 months. Reported offences only.
Property values in Cardiff Heights
Median sale price by property type, reported by postcode area — suburbs sharing a postcode show the same figure.
Indicative postcode-area estimate — NSW medians are reported by postcode, so Cardiff Heights shares this figure with nearby suburbs in the same postcode. Not a valuation of any specific property. Source: NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report — sales tables (postcode).
Zoning in Cardiff Heights
Cardiff Heights is mostly residential. The most common zones:
Low density residential — mostly detached houses on standard suburban blocks.
Zone: Low Density Residential
Environmental management — conservation land with strong limits on development.
Zone: Environmental Living
Check your council’s planning scheme for what this zone allows.
Zone: Primary Production Small Lots
School catchments in Cardiff Heights
Cardiff Heights can span more than one catchment — check a specific address (below) for the exact school.
Who lives in Cardiff Heights
At the 2021 Census, 13% of Cardiff Heights’s 1,384 residents were born overseas.
Top ancestries
Top countries of birth
Ancestry counts people reporting each ancestry (up to two each), as a share of responses. Source: ABS 2021 Census.
Development near Cardiff Heights
Lake Macquarie council approved 1,214 new dwellings in the 12 months to Jun 2026.
New dwellings approved across the whole Lake Macquarie council area (not just Cardiff Heights). See the council trend. Source: ABS Building Approvals.
- 10 Kookaburra Close, Cardiff Heights NSW 2285
- 127 Reservoir Road, Cardiff Heights NSW 2285
- 12 Serbin Close, Cardiff Heights NSW 2285
- 17 Kristen Close, Cardiff Heights NSW 2285
- 20 Cockburns Lane, Cardiff Heights NSW 2285
- 238B Wallsend Road, Cardiff Heights NSW 2285
- 2 Luton Close, Cardiff Heights NSW 2285
- 31 Nadrian Close, Cardiff Heights NSW 2285
Nearby suburbs
Other suburbs in Lake Macquarie
Compare Cardiff Heights with the rest of the council area, largest first.
Figures are indicative only — verify any specific property with the relevant council. Sources: council/state planning schemes & flood mapping, Geoscape G-NAF, state police crime statistics, ABS.