Buttai NSW 2323
30 addresses · 4 streets
Paterson Electorate › Cessnock LGA › Buttai · 120 km from Sydney
Living Here
Buttai is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 52 people, with a median age of 42. The typical household earns around $3,750 a week, with median rent near $346 a week. Most homes are houses. About 73% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, German. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 9 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Cessnock Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Buttai itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 café or restaurant
Getting around. Train station: Metford, 8.8 km north-east · Airport: Maitland Airport, 15.7 km north-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: 64.1% 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 | 64.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 74.5% |
Demographics
Population by age in Buttai
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 8 |
| 15-19 | 4 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 9 |
| 45-54 | 10 |
| 55-64 | 10 |
| 65-74 | 4 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Buttai
| House | 15 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Buttai
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 0 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 3 |
Top ancestries in Buttai
| Australian | 26 |
|---|---|
| English | 21 |
| German | 7 |
| Scottish | 4 |
| Ancestry NS | 4 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
Housing tenure in Buttai
| Owned | 5 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 3 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 3 |
Cars per household in Buttai
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 4 |
Commute to work in Buttai
| Car | 8 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 5 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
3,920 bird observations recorded near Buttai — most often seen:
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (281)
- Grey Fantail (226)
- Spotted Pardalote (199)
- Australian Raven (164)
- White-throated Treecreeper (162)
- Superb Fairy-wren (161)
- Lewin's Honeyeater (160)
- Variegated Fairy-wren (159)
- Laughing Kookaburra (146)
- Eastern Spinebill (145)
- Scarlet Honeyeater (145)
- Striated Thornbill (140)
- Golden Whistler (122)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Buttai
- Eastern Yellow Robin (121)
- Bell Miner (117)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (116)
- South-eastern Yellow-faced Honeyeater (110)
- Mistletoebird (109)
- Red-browed Finch (106)
- Yellow-tufted Honeyeater (106)
- Brown Thornbill (103)
- Tasmanian Grey Fantail (101)
- Silvereye (100)
- Australian Magpie (99)
- White-browed Scrubwren (95)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (92)
- Rufous Whistler (90)
- Noisy Friarbird (84)
- Northern Superb Fairy-wren (81)
- Eastern Rosella (80)
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 Buttai:
- Buchanan (4.1 km)
- Stockrington (4.8 km)
- Black Hill (5.2 km)
- Heddon Greta (5.3 km)
- Louth Park (6.2 km)
- Stanford Merthyr (6.3 km)
- Cliftleigh (6.3 km)
- Lenaghan (6.6 km)
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Streets
- Browns Road (3)
- John Renshaw Drive (9)
- Lings Road (13)
- Old Buttai Road (5)
