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EV charging site selection in Newcastle
Where should the next charger in Newcastle go? We score every square kilometre of the Newcastle area against real traffic counts, ABS census demographics and existing charger coverage — then rank the businesses with car parks that could host one. The numbers below are from our current database, not a brochure.
2
Charging blackspots
Cells with proven demand and no charger within reach, inside 25 km of the CBD
609
Candidate host venues
Pubs, shopping centres, supermarkets and servos with mapped customer parking
35
Existing chargers
6 of them DC fast — the competition your site is measured against
68,620
Busiest road (vehicles/day)
Government AADT counts, published by NSW
What the Newcastle data says
Newcastle is comparatively well served. Across the 231 analysis cells within 25 km of the CBD, covering roughly 150,666 residents, only 2 cells score as an outright charging blackspot — 35 existing chargers have covered most of the obvious demand. That makes site selection here a question of ranking good sites against each other rather than finding an empty map, which is exactly what the scoring model is for.
There are 609 candidate host venues in the same area against 35 existing chargers — about 5.7 chargers per 100 venues that could plausibly host one. The gap between those two numbers is the opportunity, and it is not evenly spread: the map shows exactly which end of town it sits in.
How the scoring works
Every Newcastle location is scored the same way as everywhere else in Australia: Getis-Ord Gi* hotspot statistics on demand, an OLS demand-gap regression, and a machine-learnt suitability model, all computed over open government data. Nothing is hand-tuned per city — which is what makes the comparison between Newcastle and anywhere else meaningful.
Read the full methodologySee the Newcastle blackspot map
The interactive analysis is free: search any Newcastle suburb, see the blackspots painted on the map and the ranked host venues inside them. Reports start at $99.
See how NSW compares with the rest of the country on charger coverage and unmet demand in the New South Wales EV charging overview, or read the guide on where to put an EV charging station.