Hamilton East is an inner suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of Newcastle's central business district.

In the 2016 Census, there were 983 people in Hamilton East.

85.3% of people were born in Australia and 85.8% of people spoke only English at home.

The most common responses for religion were No Religion 36.0%, Catholic 26.2% and Anglican 13.9%.

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