Cessnock house prices, 2026.

The median house price across the Cessnock region is $850,000. That figure is the median of 35 suburb medians, each drawn from government sales records, rather than an average, so a handful of waterfront or acreage suburbs cannot drag it up. The median unit price is $308,880. The median house rent is $700 a week.

Over the past twelve months the typical Cessnock suburb rose by 5.6% in median house price. The spread between suburbs is wide: Wyee recorded +14.9%, the fastest of the established suburbs with plausible growth data. A change beyond 25% in a year, the mark of a handful of sales, is left out of the growth figures.

Among established suburbs, the most affordable is Woodberry at $625,000 and the dearest is Jilliby at $1,707,000, a 2.7-times gap across the one region. The suburbs with the most recorded house sales in the latest period are Thornton (240), Chisholm (202), Hamlyn Terrace (194); the table below lists the twenty busiest with their medians.

Source: suburb medians from the NSW valuer-general or state sales records and the ABS, aggregated by Your Property Guide, sales data last refreshed September 2026; page generated 22 October 2026. Only the 35 of 58 tracked suburbs whose own page publishes a median contribute to price figures: a verified sales source, and at least five recorded sales where the count is reported.