Arkell NSW 2795
50 addresses · 7 streets
Calare Electorate › Bathurst Regional LGA › Arkell · 170 km from Sydney
Living Here
Arkell is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 36 people, with a median age of 47. The typical household earns around $1,593 a week, with median rent near $250 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers work from home. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 6 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Bathurst Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Arkell itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
Socio-economic Standing
Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 21.6% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020
Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 21.6% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 25.6% |
Demographics
Unemployment 8.3% · Labour-force participation 85.7%
Population by age in Arkell
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 5 |
| 15-19 | 4 |
| 20-24 | 6 |
| 25-34 | 3 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 4 |
| 55-64 | 4 |
| 65-74 | 4 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Arkell
| House | 9 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Arkell
| English | 20 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 15 |
| Irish | 9 |
| Scottish | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Arkell
| Owned | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 8 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Arkell
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Arkell
| Car | 10 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 11 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
284 bird observations recorded near Arkell — most often seen:
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (17)
- Australian Magpie (16)
- Common Starling (15)
- Eastern Rosella (15)
- Australian Raven (12)
- Crimson Rosella (12)
- Laughing Kookaburra (11)
- Magpie-lark (11)
- Superb Fairy-wren (11)
- Welcome Swallow (11)
- Australian Wood Duck (10)
- White-faced Heron (10)
- Willie Wagtail (10)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Arkell
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (10)
- Grey Teal (9)
- Western Galah (9)
- Australasian Grebe (8)
- Galah (8)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (8)
- Australian Pipit (7)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (7)
- Masked Lapwing (7)
- Pacific Black Duck (7)
- White-throated Treecreeper (7)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (6)
- Brown Falcon (6)
- Buff-rumped Thornbill (6)
- European Goldfinch (6)
- Nankeen Kestrel (6)
- Pied Currawong (6)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Arkell:
- Hobbys Yards (7.4 km)
- Triangle Flat (9.2 km)
- Trunkey Creek (9.5 km)
- Colo (10.1 km)
- Caloola (12.3 km)
- Moorilda (13.7 km)
- Barry (14.1 km)
- Neville (15.2 km)
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Streets
- Clarkes Road (2)
- Hobbys Yards Road (10)
- Neville-trunkey Road (1)
- Old Trunk Road (13)
- Rowandene Road (1)
- Triangle Flat Road (5)
- Trunkey Road (18)