Fern Bay is a suburb of Hunter Valley, New South
Wales and is about 123 kms north-northeast of
NSW's capital city of Sydney. In the
2011 Australian census the population of Fern Bay
was 1,625 when there were 816 Females and 809
Males living there. The median age for
people living in Fern Bay was 57.

Fern Bay is the southern-most suburb of the Port
Stephens local government area in the Hunter
Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located
just north of Stockton, which is the only suburb of
Newcastle that lies north of the Hunter River and
to the east of the north arm of the Hunter River at
the entrance to Fullerton Cove, a large body of
water.