Caroona NSW 2343
218 addresses · 25 streets
New England Electorate › Liverpool Plains LGA › Caroona · 285 km from Sydney
Living Here
Caroona is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 196 people, with a median age of 40. The typical household earns around $933 a week, with median rent near $189 a week. Most homes are houses. About 35% of households own their home and 57% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Australian, English. 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 Quirindi statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Caroona itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 café or restaurant
1 Catholic church
1 post office
1 service station
Getting around. Airport: Gunnedah Aerodrome, 51.2 km north.
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: 9.9% 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 | 9.9% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 17.1% |
Demographics
Unemployment 11.4% · Labour-force participation 47.3%
Population by age in Caroona
| 0-4 | 20 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 35 |
| 15-19 | 11 |
| 20-24 | 8 |
| 25-34 | 17 |
| 35-44 | 15 |
| 45-54 | 35 |
| 55-64 | 30 |
| 65-74 | 18 |
| 75-84 | 10 |
| 85+ | 4 |
Dwelling types in Caroona
| House | 67 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Caroona
| <$650 | 18 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 33 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 7 |
| $3,000+ | 13 |
Top ancestries in Caroona
| Aboriginal | 102 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 59 |
| English | 34 |
| Scottish | 11 |
| Ancestry NS | 7 |
| Other | 5 |
Housing tenure in Caroona
| Owned | 18 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 6 |
| Rented | 39 |
| Other | 5 |
Cars per household in Caroona
| 0 | 4 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 16 |
| 3 | 16 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Caroona
| Car | 34 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 8 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 10 |
Languages used at home in Caroona
| Australian Indigenous | 62 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
950 bird observations recorded near Caroona — most often seen:
- Nankeen Kestrel (55)
- Willie Wagtail (52)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (49)
- Australian Magpie (46)
- Noisy Miner (40)
- Common Starling (38)
- Magpie-lark (38)
- Galah (37)
- Australian Raven (35)
- Crested Pigeon (35)
- Eastern Rosella (34)
- Common Myna (31)
- Pied Butcherbird (30)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Caroona
- Red-rumped Parrot (30)
- Double-barred Finch (28)
- Rock Dove (28)
- House Sparrow (27)
- Striated Pardalote (27)
- Whistling Kite (27)
- Welcome Swallow (26)
- Australian Wood Duck (25)
- Pacific Black Duck (25)
- Straw-necked Ibis (25)
- Cockatiel (24)
- Laughing Kookaburra (24)
- White-faced Heron (24)
- Striped Honeyeater (23)
- Superb Fairy-wren (23)
- Brown Falcon (22)
- Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (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.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Caroona:
- Pine Ridge (13.6 km)
- Breeza (16.2 km)
- Spring Ridge (17.9 km)
- Werris Creek (21.8 km)
- Windy (22.7 km)
- Quipolly (22.7 km)
- Borambil (24 km)
- Warrah Ridge (26.4 km)
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Streets
- 4d Road (17)
- Blomfields Road (2)
- Bloomfields Road (2)
- Bottom Lane (3)
- Boundary Street (12)
- Caroona Misson Road (26)
- Coonabarabran Road (15)
- Hill Street (20)
- Johnson Street (5)
- Main Street (7)
- Mary Street (4)
- Middle Lane (8)
- Mooki Road (3)
- Mystery Road (8)
- Park Lane (7)
- Pine Road (6)
- Rossmar Park Road (11)
- Top Church Lane (4)
- Top Lane (5)
- Walhallow Community Road (5)
- Walhallow Road (9)
- Waverley Road (27)
- Weston Street (1)
- Williewarina Road (5)
- Woodlands Road (6)
