Bowning NSW 2582
510 addresses · 35 streets
Eden-Monaro Electorate › Yass Valley LGA › Bowning · 241 km from Sydney
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Living Here
Bowning is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 619 people, with a median age of 45. The typical household earns around $1,888 a week, with median rent near $330 a week. Most homes are houses. About 87% of households own their home and 8% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Yass Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Bowning itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 hospital
1 post office
1 service station
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: 3.3% 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 | 3.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 7.3% |
Demographics
Unemployment 2.2% · Labour-force participation 62.2%
Population by age in Bowning
| 0-4 | 26 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 77 |
| 15-19 | 41 |
| 20-24 | 25 |
| 25-34 | 64 |
| 35-44 | 72 |
| 45-54 | 97 |
| 55-64 | 83 |
| 65-74 | 84 |
| 75-84 | 38 |
| 85+ | 6 |
Dwelling types in Bowning
| House | 220 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Bowning
| <$650 | 35 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 55 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 65 |
| $3,000+ | 51 |
Top ancestries in Bowning
| Australian | 266 |
|---|---|
| English | 259 |
| Irish | 104 |
| Scottish | 83 |
| Ancestry NS | 38 |
| German | 29 |
Housing tenure in Bowning
| Owned | 82 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 104 |
| Rented | 18 |
| Other | 9 |
Cars per household in Bowning
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |
| 2 | 84 |
| 3 | 45 |
| 4+ | 51 |
Commute to work in Bowning
| Car | 205 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 13 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 58 |
Top countries of birth in Bowning
| England | 16 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 13 |
| Philippines | 5 |
| Canada | 4 |
| Germany | 4 |
| United States | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,335 bird observations recorded near Bowning — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (124)
- Galah (92)
- Common Starling (80)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (77)
- Magpie-lark (69)
- Australian Wood Duck (50)
- Australian Raven (49)
- Nankeen Kestrel (47)
- Whistling Kite (46)
- Australian White Ibis (45)
- Eastern Rosella (44)
- Superb Fairy-wren (44)
- Black Kite (43)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Bowning
- Superb Parrot (41)
- Black-shouldered Kite (39)
- Brown Falcon (39)
- Wedge-tailed Eagle (36)
- Striated Pardalote (34)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (33)
- Willie Wagtail (32)
- Noisy Friarbird (31)
- Crimson Rosella (30)
- Laughing Kookaburra (30)
- Red Wattlebird (30)
- Welcome Swallow (29)
- Grey Fantail (26)
- Noisy Miner (26)
- White-faced Heron (25)
- Little Corella (22)
- Straw-necked Ibis (22)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
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Streets
- Airy Street (23)
- Bendenine Road (4)
- Bendenine Stock Road (7)
- Bendenine Stock Route Road (10)
- Black Range Road (31)
- Bogolong Street (8)
- Bowning Road (29)
- Burley Griffin Way (6)
- Carey Lane (3)
- Cemetery Road (4)
- Common Road (9)
- Cossack Street (21)
- Davis Lane (5)
- Glover Place (10)
- Goondah Road (12)
- Graces Flat Road (12)
- Harrow Street (3)
- Hume Highway (23)
- Juno Street (6)
- Lachlan Valley Way (33)
- Laverstock Road (17)
- Lawrence Lane (4)
- Leake Street (25)
- Luther Street (19)
- Minehan Lane (3)
- Montem Street (19)
- Peru Street (14)
- Playfair Street (30)
- Red Hill Road (29)
- Short Street (7)
- Silver Street (26)
- Stadtmillers Lane (5)
- Wales Close (3)
- Walls Junction Road (20)
- Wargeila Road (30)
