| Type: | suburb |
| Brightwaters | |
| State: | nsw |
| Alternative Location Map: | Australia Hunter Central Coast |
| Lga: | City of Lake Macquarie |
| Postcode: | 2264 |
| Pop: | 875 |
| Pop Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area: | 1.1 |
| Est: | 1859 |
| Parish: | Morisset |
| Stategov: | Lake Macquarie |
| Fedgov: | Hunter |
| Dist1: | 6 |
| Dir1: | E |
| Location1: | Morisset |
| Near-Nw: | Bonnells Bay |
| Near-N: | Bonnells Bay |
| Near-Ne: | Yarrawonga Park |
| Near-W: | Bonnells Bay |
| Near-E: | Mirrabooka |
| Near-Sw: | Windermere Park |
| Near-S: | Lake Macquarie |
Brightwaters is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia on a peninsula east of the town of Morisset on the western shore of Lake Macquarie.
Early industries were tinned fish and sugar cane. A sugar cane mill was built, but it was destroyed by a bushfire in 1875. A post office was opened in 1963 and closed in 1979.
In the 2016 Census, there were 903 people in Brightwaters. 84.1% of people were born in Australia and 93.0% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion in Brightwaters were No Religion 24.9%, Catholic 24.1% and Anglican 19.8%.[1]