Cheero Point is a tiny waterfront suburb of 87 people (2016 census) on the west bank of Mooney Mooney Creek, flanked by the southern bushland of Brisbane Water National Park and part of the Central Coast Council local government area, about 53 km north of the Sydney CBD. Created as a land subdivision in 1918 and for decades treated as part of Mooney Mooney (the Geographical Names Board folded it into that suburb in 1977), it was separately gazetted on 21 March 2003 after community pressure from residents and the Mooney-Cheero Progress Association — a fight to put 'Cheero Point back on the map'. Today it is a quiet pocket of riverside homes and weekenders on the creek, bounded by the M1 Pacific Motorway to the west with the old Pacific Highway running through it — seclusion and water access rather than services are the draw.
At a Glance
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Region | Upper North Shore |
| Council (LGA) | Central Coast Council |
| Postcode | 2083 |
| Distance to Sydney CBD | Cheero Point is about 53 km north of the Sydney CBD — roughly 50 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes by car in good traffic straight down the… |
| Median house price | ~$0.96–1.0M (real figures; very thin market) — quickproperty median house price $957K (latest period, +12.9% YoY) vs Picki median house price of $1.0M with a 4.1% rental yield (mid-2026) |
| Typical rent | ~$850/week (quickproperty dataset median weekly rent; the rental pool is tiny and the figure is interpolated across the wider dataset) |
Transport
Cheero Point has no railway station and no ferry; it is traversed by the Pacific Highway (old alignment) and bounded by the M1 Pacific Motorway to the west, giving direct road access to Gosford and Sydney. The suburb is served by Sydney Buses Network route 592 (Brooklyn to Cheero Point and Mooney Mooney), with approximately 65 bus departures a week from the corner of Cheero Point Road and Cararma Parkway taking passengers to Mooney Mooney and on to Brooklyn. The nearest railway station is Hawkesbury River station at Brooklyn — the 592's terminus on the Central Coast & Newcastle Line — while Wondabyne station lies across Mooney Mooney Creek but is road-inaccessible (train- or boat-only).
Schools
No school operates in Cheero Point, and none of its immediately adjacent suburbs (Bar Point, Mooney Mooney, Mooney Mooney Creek, Wondabyne) has an operating school either — Mooney Mooney Public School, which opened in 1939, closed in 2007 (Coast Community News; AEC records). School-age children travel out of the immediate area: the nearest government primary is Brooklyn Public School (K–6) across the river in Brooklyn, with secondary students continuing toward high schools in the Gosford–Kariong or Berowra–Hornsby corridors (NSW Department of Education via Brooklyn sources; approximate).
Shopping & Amenities
Cheero Point has no shops, cafes or other commercial facilities — it is a residential riverside pocket within national-park bushland. Local services cluster in the immediately adjacent Mooney Mooney village: the Mooney Mooney Club on the Hawkesbury, the Hawkesbury River Oyster Shed takeaway and village restaurants, plus a River Hub mobile library service that visits the Mooney Mooney–Cheero Point community with bookmobile runs and storytime (mooneymooney.nsw.au community directory and community activities).
Parks & Outdoors
Cheero Point's appeal is its water-and-bush setting: the suburb fronts Mooney Mooney Creek, a tributary of the Hawkesbury River, with Brisbane Water National Park's southern boundary to the north and the creek to the east. Waterfront homes carry private moorings and deep-water access to the Hawkesbury system, and the Mooney Mooney Nature Walk links the village area with Girrakool through some of the most picturesque parts of Brisbane Water National Park nearby (visitnsw.com). Boating, fishing, kayaking and swimming define the riverside lifestyle, kept quiet and secluded by the creek-side location.
Property Market
The median house price in Cheero Point was around ~$0.96–1.0M (real figures; very thin market) — quickproperty median house price $957K (latest period, +12.9% YoY) vs Picki median house price of $1.0M with a 4.1% rental yield (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Real medians cluster around $0.95–1.0M — well below the $1.3–2.1M sometimes assumed for waterfront stock — reflecting a market of older river cottages and weekenders on a very small sales base (quickproperty; Picki). Cheero Point is extremely small (87 residents at the 2016 census; ~83 per Picki), and quickproperty flags its signal as fragile, so tracker figures carry wide error bars — neither tracker's sample is statistically robust at this size, and the figures should be treated as indicative only; its median rent ($850/week) is dataset-interpolated across a small rental pool. Sales activity is limited to existing riverside homes changing hands rather than new stock, and no reliable unit market exists in the suburb (median_unit_price null for that reason).
New Developments
No significant development activity was identified: Cheero Point is essentially built out — a 1918 subdivision of riverside homes within national-park bushland — and the suburb's biggest recent events were administrative (separate gazettal in 2003 after a residents' campaign) and infrastructural (the 1990s closure and rebuilding of the Pacific Highway after landslides at Jolls Bridge, which forced a 250-metre section of the road shut from 1991 until its June 1994 reopening) rather than new residential construction.
Jobs & Local Economy
Cheero Point has no local employment base: its 87 residents (2016 census) live in a national-park-bound residential pocket with no commercial precinct. Employment is found by commuting along the adjacent M1 to Gosford or Sydney, with local water-based activity — boating, fishing and the Hawkesbury oyster industry around Mooney Mooney — the main on-river work nearby (Mooney Mooney community directory; approximate).
Nearby Suburbs
Bar Point, Mooney Mooney, Mooney Mooney Creek, Wondabyne
Sources & method
Researched 5 September 2026 from named public sources — census and government records, transport authorities, council and planning documents — plus published sales data. Where sources disagree on a figure, the guide says so rather than picking one.
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