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Newcastle: hazard maps, recorded crime and property reports

What a WattleAddr Property report can tell you about an address in Newcastle, NSW, and what no register covers.

Hazards mapped in Newcastle

What the government maps show. Not a risk rating.

10.6%of addresses on a lot at least partly shown as bush fire prone landNot mappedFlood planningNo map covers most of the council, which does not mean there is no hazard52.9%of address points in a declared mine subsidence districtat least33.1%of addresses on a lot at least partly shown as acid sulfate soils, Classes 1–4
Share of addresses on land each map shows, counted among the addresses where that map applies: what the government maps show, not a risk rating. Hatched: no map covers most of the council; dotted: a map covers only part of the council, or records its own classes, so no share. Our build 60 of 18 October 2026.Counts derived by WattleAddr from the registers credited at the end of this section.
2,457
addresses with bush fire prone land on part of the lot, not at the address point
In Newcastle, a check of the address point alone would report them as outside the map. Our report tests the whole lot. Our build 60 of 18 October 2026.Source: the NSW Rural Fire Service’s bush fire prone land map; addresses and lots from NSW Spatial Services. Counts derived by WattleAddr.

Bush fire prone land

10.6%
Base of the share: 90,861 addresses on land the map covers
  • 7,215 on the map at the address point
  • 2,457 on part of the lot only
  • 197 at the edge only
  • 80,992 not on the map

Check the RFS map. Bush fire prone land by council, on our map.

How this is counted

9,672 of 90,861 addresses (10.6%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as bush fire prone land on the NSW Rural Fire Service map. On 7,465 of 59,302 lots · 2,457 on part of the lot only · 197 touch only the edge.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 60 of 18 October 2026.Source: the NSW Rural Fire Service’s bush fire prone land map; addresses and lots from NSW Spatial Services. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

Flood planning

Not mapped
  • 90,861 with no map for this land: not known

No planning instrument covering most of Newcastle has a flood planning area mapped in the NSW Planning Portal’s layers. We cannot say how many addresses here are in it; no figure is not the same as none. The council may hold flood information that no map in these layers shows; the planning certificate says what applies. See the Planning Portal map. Flood planning by council, on our map.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 60 of 18 October 2026.Source: planning instruments’ flood planning maps on the NSW Planning Portal (Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure); addresses and lots from NSW Spatial Services. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

Mine subsidence district

52.9%
Base of the share: 90,861 addresses on land the map covers
  • 48,043 in a district, at the address point
  • 42,818 not in a district

48,043 of the 90,861 addresses (52.9%) are in a declared mine subsidence district, tested at the address point. Building or subdividing in a district needs Subsidence Advisory NSW approval; it is not a finding that the land has subsided. Mine subsidence district by council, on our map.

How this is counted

48,043 of the 90,861 addresses (52.9%) are in a declared mine subsidence district, tested at the address point. Building or subdividing in a district needs Subsidence Advisory NSW approval; it is not a finding that the land has subsided.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 60 of 18 October 2026.Source: mine subsidence districts, NSW Department of Customer Service; addresses and lots from NSW Spatial Services. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

Acid sulfate soils

at least 33.1% Classes 1–4
Base of the share: 90,643 addresses on land the map covers
  • 29,992 in Classes 1 to 4
  • 60,611 in Class 5, the buffer
  • 39 at the edge only
  • 1 not on the map
  • 218 with no map for this land: not known

At least 29,992 of 90,643 addresses (33.1%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as acid sulfate soils Classes 1 to 4 on a planning instrument’s map, as published on the NSW Planning Portal. A further 60,611 addresses are recorded against Class 5, the buffer around the other classes, where only works that could lower the water table need consent. Part of such a lot may be in another class. See the Planning Portal map. Acid sulfate soils by council, on our map.

How this is counted

At least 29,992 of 90,643 addresses (33.1%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as acid sulfate soils Classes 1 to 4 on a planning instrument’s map, as published on the NSW Planning Portal. A further 60,611 addresses are recorded against Class 5, the buffer around the other classes, where only works that could lower the water table need consent. Part of such a lot may be in another class. 39 addresses touch only the edge of a mapped class. 218 addresses are on land zoned under a planning instrument that has no acid sulfate soils map in these layers, and are left out of the figure.

Addresses, not homes, counted among those on land the map covers. What the government map shows, not a risk rating. Our build 60 of 18 October 2026.Source: planning instruments’ acid sulfate soils maps on the NSW Planning Portal (Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure); addresses and lots from NSW Spatial Services. Counts derived by WattleAddr; the full notices end this section.

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Free: which registers cover the address. The report ($9.90 including GST): whether the lot is on them, and how much of it.

How these are counted

Counted from every address in the New South Wales address register, in build 60 of 18 October 2026, out of the addresses on land each register covers; a share is given only where the register covers nine in ten of the council’s addresses. Addresses, not homes: an apartment building is many addresses on one lot, and a vacant block is one. “Part of the lot” counts land, not buildings: the mapped area may not reach the house. A lot the map touches only at the edge, within the map’s accuracy, is shown as “Check” in a report and is counted in the base but not as on the map, so a share can be low by up to the edge count in its row. These are counts of what the government maps show, by our method; they are not a risk rating, and a council’s own count of “properties” may not match them. See why unmapped is not clear. Landslide maps are not counted here: their classes differ from one council to the next. A report shows them for one address.

Counts derived by WattleAddr from these registers, by our method. Bush fire prone land: © State of New South Wales (NSW Rural Fire Service); Flood and acid sulfate soils maps: © State of New South Wales (Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure); Addresses: © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services, Department of Customer Service); Lots: © Department of Customer Service 12 October 2026; Local government areas and mine subsidence districts: © Department of Customer Service 7 September 2026; Council boundaries: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021, Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

What the report covers here

What a report reads for an address in Newcastle. Solid: read for the address. Dotted: only where a map or published figure exists. Height of building and floor space ratio are dotted for every council: a council’s plan may map them for only part of its land, and we do not yet count them address by address. Hatched: we hold nothing for it here, because no open register has it, we are not licensed to publish it, or no map in the layers we read covers most of the council. A hatched hazard is not a finding that the land is clear: the council may hold its own information. The flood and acid sulfate soils cells are read for this council, from our build 60 of 18 October 2026. From the New South Wales planning, hazard, cadastre and valuation registers each report names, with every figure’s register and date. Our count. © State of New South Wales (Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure), CC BY 4.0.
What the report reads, and what no register covers

Every New South Wales address, including every address in Newcastle. The report reads the land zoning, minimum lot size, height limit and floor space ratio from the environmental planning instrument that applies, and the bush fire prone land, flood planning area, acid sulfate, mine subsidence, heritage and other hazard layers the state publishes, together with the Valuer General's land value. Each figure carries the register it came from and the date it was true.

What no register covers: the report lists these rather than leaving them out, and names who holds the answer and who sets the fee. Who owns the land and what is registered against the title are not on any open register, and sale prices are published under a licence that does not let us republish them. Most New South Wales councils have no flood planning map in the Planning Portal's layers, so across much of the state a flood search has nothing to search. An absence there means no map in the layers we read covers the land, not that the land does not flood. That distinction is the point of the whole report.

Crime rates in Newcastle: ten years of recorded crime

For the council area, not any one property. We do not rank councils and we do not turn this into a safety score.

How to read these charts

This is about the council area, not about any one property. Every address in Newcastle carries the same figures. Each chart shows the incidents recorded in each of the ten years to March 2026; the darkest bar is the latest year, where a trend was tested. Each chart has its own scale, starting at zero, so read the shape, not the height against another chart. Beneath it, the latest rate per 100,000 people (solid) is set against the New South Wales rate (outlined). The trend figure is the Bureau’s own, and stable is its word for a change that was not statistically significant, not a sign that nothing moved.

Break and enter, homes

Stable: no significant trend over ten years
2017year to March2026
Newcastle528.1 NSW212.3
For the council area, not any one property. Recorded incidents a year, years to March 2017–2026; rate per 100,000 people. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (CC BY 4.0). Chart by WattleAddr.

Motor vehicle theft

Up 4.6% a year over ten years
2017year to March2026
Newcastle413.3 NSW171.2
For the council area, not any one property. Recorded incidents a year, years to March 2017–2026; rate per 100,000 people. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (CC BY 4.0). Chart by WattleAddr.

Theft from vehicles

Down 3.0% a year over ten years
2017year to March2026
Newcastle900.1 NSW295.5
For the council area, not any one property. Recorded incidents a year, years to March 2017–2026; rate per 100,000 people. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (CC BY 4.0). Chart by WattleAddr.

Malicious damage to property

Down 2.4% a year over ten years
2017year to March2026
Newcastle995.7 NSW554.7
For the council area, not any one property. Recorded incidents a year, years to March 2017–2026; rate per 100,000 people. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (CC BY 4.0). Chart by WattleAddr.

Assault, non-domestic

Stable: no significant trend over ten years
2017year to March2026
Newcastle697.2 NSW401.8
For the council area, not any one property. Recorded incidents a year, years to March 2017–2026; rate per 100,000 people. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (CC BY 4.0). Chart by WattleAddr.
The same figures as a table
OffenceTen year trendNewcastle NSW
Break and enter, homes Stable: no significant trend over ten years 528.1 212.3
Motor vehicle theft Up 4.6% a year over ten years 413.3 171.2
Theft from vehicles Down 3.0% a year over ten years 900.1 295.5
Malicious damage to property Down 2.4% a year over ten years 995.7 554.7
Assault, non-domestic Stable: no significant trend over ten years 697.2 401.8

A rate shown as not published is one the Bureau does not calculate: it excludes councils with fewer than 3,000 people, because rates there are very sensitive to small changes in population and in the number of incidents recorded. It also cautions that a rate is hard to read where visitors are many beside residents, because it is calculated on the resident population. Recorded incidents are what was reported to and recorded by the NSW Police Force: a rise can mean more of an offence, or more of it being reported, and these figures cannot tell the two apart. A count also moves with the population, which the rate allows for and the bars do not. We leave out offences whose recorded numbers depend mostly on police activity, such as drug and weapons offences; the offences shown are still only what was reported and recorded.

Charts drawn by WattleAddr from the Bureau’s figures. © NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, CC BY 4.0 Source data. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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New South Wales council areas next to Newcastle

The other New South Wales council areas that share a stretch of land boundary with Newcastle, in alphabetical order; councils across the State border or across open water are not listed. Sharing a boundary says nothing about hazards, zoning or crime on either side of it: each page has its own figures. Every council area in New South Wales is on one page.

Neighbours worked out by WattleAddr from the council boundaries (Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021, Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0).