Brayton NSW 2579
191 addresses · 13 streets
Hume Electorate › Goulburn Mulwaree LGA › Brayton · 140 km from Sydney
Living Here
Brayton is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 208 people, with a median age of 49. The typical household earns around $1,812 a week, with median rent near $300 a week. Most homes are houses. About 77% of households own their home and 16% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, 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 Goulburn Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Brayton 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: 26.4% 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 | 26.4% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 41.1% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.1% · Labour-force participation 55.7%
Population by age in Brayton
| 0-4 | 9 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 24 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 14 |
| 25-34 | 15 |
| 35-44 | 23 |
| 45-54 | 26 |
| 55-64 | 36 |
| 65-74 | 25 |
| 75-84 | 18 |
| 85+ | 4 |
Dwelling types in Brayton
| House | 73 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Brayton
| <$650 | 16 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 22 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 17 |
| $3,000+ | 15 |
Top ancestries in Brayton
| English | 90 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 86 |
| Irish | 30 |
| Ancestry NS | 25 |
| German | 17 |
| Scottish | 15 |
Housing tenure in Brayton
| Owned | 33 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 23 |
| Rented | 12 |
| Other | 5 |
Cars per household in Brayton
| 0 | 6 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 13 |
| 2 | 32 |
| 3 | 6 |
| 4+ | 10 |
Commute to work in Brayton
| Car | 58 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 5 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 16 |
Top countries of birth in Brayton
| England | 10 |
|---|
Languages used at home in Brayton
| Arabic | 6 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
359 bird observations recorded near Brayton — most often seen:
- Australian Wood Duck (20)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (19)
- Superb Fairy-wren (17)
- Red Wattlebird (16)
- Australian Magpie (15)
- Brown Thornbill (14)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (14)
- Laughing Kookaburra (14)
- Rufous Whistler (14)
- Willie Wagtail (14)
- Welcome Swallow (13)
- Yellow Thornbill (13)
- Common Starling (12)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Brayton
- Galah (12)
- Grey Fantail (12)
- Noisy Miner (11)
- Silvereye (11)
- White-faced Heron (11)
- Australian Raven (10)
- Red-browed Finch (10)
- White-browed Scrubwren (10)
- White-throated Treecreeper (10)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (10)
- Crimson Rosella (9)
- Spotted Pardalote (9)
- Buff-rumped Thornbill (8)
- Magpie-lark (8)
- Pacific Black Duck (8)
- Striated Thornbill (8)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (7)
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 Brayton:
- Greenwich Park (7.9 km)
- Marulan (10.1 km)
- Big Hill (10.1 km)
- Paddys River (11.5 km)
- Carrick (13.9 km)
- Tallong (15.5 km)
- Towrang (15.5 km)
- Wingello (16.9 km)
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Streets
- Brayton Road (65)
- Bulls Pit Road (26)
- Canyonleigh Road (47)
- Carrick Road (4)
- Dairy Road (10)
- Gibralter Road (12)
- Inverary Road (1)
- Kimridge Lane (2)
- Longreach Lane (1)
- Old Macquarie Road (6)
- Red Hills Road (1)
- Towrang Road (9)
- Wollumbi Road (7)
