Warabrook

Built on an old abattoir site and associated stock yards, Warabrook still contains some light industrial sites such as the distribution site for Australia Post. The industry sites are confined to a small pocket separate to housing. Warabrook’s popularity blossomed in the 80’s when there was a new home display village built here, with the most modern homes from a variety of builders. These, once display homes, were sold off to private owners and the surrounding streets became filled with modern homes, each adding their own personal touches.

There is a train station at the back of the suburb at the end of Eucalypt Ct which incorporates an overhead foot bridge to The Newcastle University. With such a close proximity to the university, yet a relaxed family lifestyle and relative closeness to the city will maintain property values for many years to come. The current shopping centre was originally a Cambell’s Cash n Carry site; however it was modernised in 2003 and now includes a large Woolworths, a newsagency, doctors’ surgery, hair dressers, Millers Fashion outlet, Woolworth’s liquor, Thompson pie shop and Woolworth’s petrol outlet.

The population of Warabrook in 2001 was around 2,000 people however; by 2006 the population was 2,155 showing a population growth of 6% in the area during that time. In 2001, 63% of the homes in Warabrook were owner-occupied this has only marginally increased to 64% as per the latest 2006 census. 70% of the occupied private dwelling in Warabrook, are houses and 26% are semi detached dwellings. The surrounding suburbs include Mayfield West, Waratah West, and Sandgate Currently the median sale price of houses in the area is $345,000.