Haywards Bay is a suburb of South Coast, New
South Wales and is about 84 kms south-southwest
of NSW's capital city of Sydney. In the 2011
Australian census the population of Haywards Bay
was 693 when there were 346 Females and 347
Males living there.
Haywards Bay is located 18 kms south west of
Wollongong between the shoreline of Lake
Illawarra in the east and the Princes Highway in
the west, the Maquarie Rivulet in the south and
Yallah in the north.