Bombowlee Creek NSW 2720
28 addresses · 3 streets
Eden-Monaro Electorate › Snowy Valleys LGA › Bombowlee Creek · 308 km from Sydney
Living Here
Bombowlee Creek is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 52 people, with a median age of 47. The typical household earns around $2,333 a week, with median rent near $290 a week. Most homes are houses. About 84% of households own their home and 16% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Tumut Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Bombowlee Creek itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 Catholic church
1 hospital
1 golf club
1 plumber
Getting around. Airport: Tumut Airport, 5.8 km west.
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: 8.5% 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 | 8.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 14.9% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3% · Labour-force participation 68.8%
Population by age in Bombowlee Creek
| 0-4 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 6 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 3 |
| 35-44 | 5 |
| 45-54 | 9 |
| 55-64 | 9 |
| 65-74 | 7 |
| 75-84 | 4 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Bombowlee Creek
| House | 16 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Bombowlee Creek
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 0 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 8 |
| $3,000+ | 7 |
Top ancestries in Bombowlee Creek
| Australian | 30 |
|---|---|
| English | 11 |
| Ancestry NS | 11 |
| Irish | 4 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Bombowlee Creek
| Owned | 8 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 8 |
| Rented | 3 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Bombowlee Creek
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 8 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Bombowlee Creek
| Car | 19 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 8 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
144 bird observations recorded near Bombowlee Creek — most often seen:
- Gang-gang Cockatoo (20)
- Common Starling (13)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (9)
- Willie Wagtail (8)
- Red-rumped Parrot (7)
- Superb Fairy-wren (7)
- Australian Magpie (6)
- Eastern Rosella (6)
- Crested Shrike-tit (5)
- Welcome Swallow (5)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (4)
- Galah (4)
- Jacky Winter (4)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Bombowlee Creek
- Magpie-lark (4)
- Restless Flycatcher (4)
- Australian Raven (3)
- Australian Wood Duck (3)
- Grey Fantail (3)
- Rufous Whistler (3)
- Straw-necked Ibis (3)
- Superb Parrot (3)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (3)
- Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (3)
- Diamond Firetail (2)
- Double-barred Finch (2)
- Eastern Grey Shrike-thrush (2)
- Eastern Red Wattlebird (2)
- Eastern Striated Pardalote (2)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (2)
- House Sparrow (2)
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 Bombowlee Creek:
- Mundongo (3.2 km)
- Lacmalac (4.4 km)
- Wyangle (5.2 km)
- Bombowlee (5.6 km)
- Little River (6.9 km)
- Tumut Plains (8 km)
- Tumut (8.5 km)
- Killimicat (9.8 km)
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Streets
- Argalong Road (1)
- Bombowlee Creek Road (22)
- Withers Lane (5)
