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Birmingham Gardens is a NSW suburb in Lake Macquarie LGA, matched to postcode 2287 — also covering Elermore Vale, Fletcher, Maryland and nearby localities. New rental bonds in that postcode had a median weekly rent of $618 in 2025, up 6.6% from $580 in 2024. That is about 11% below the NSW median of $695. Bond medians describe new lodgements with Fair Trading, not every current lease in the suburb. Birmingham Gardens recorded 158 criminal incidents in the 12 months to March 2026, down 8.7% from 173 a year earlier. These are police-recorded incidents, not convictions, and they are not adjusted for how many people live or visit here. House bonds typically leased at $660 a week and flats/units at $500. Townhouse bonds sat at $680 a week. Two-bedroom bonds had a median of $560; three-bedroom bonds $670. One-bedroom bonds sat at $250 a week. Four-bedroom bonds sat at $780 a week. Half of new bonds sat between $400 and $705 a week. Fair Trading recorded 1,548 new bonds in the postcode in 2025. Over 2021–2025 the postcode median moved from $450 to $618 a week. Because several suburbs share the postcode, the rent charts are a postcode picture, not a street-level one. Property offences totalled 85 and violent-related offences 42. Theft made up the largest published share (69 incidents, 44%). Next was Intimidation, stalking and harassment (19). The crime series is coded to this suburb name; the rent series, where shown, is the whole postcode. Sources: NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements, calendar 2025; NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Apr 2025 – Mar 2026.
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Postcode-wide figure for 2287
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Postcode-wide figure for 2287
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