Cataract NSW 2560
6 addresses · 2 streets
Hume Electorate › Wollondilly LGA › Cataract · 56 km from Sydney
Living Here
Cataract is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 4 people, with a median age of 43. The typical household earns around $2,750 a week, with median rent near $270 a week. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Aboriginal.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Douglas Park - Appin statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Cataract itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 park
1 Catholic church
Getting around. Airport: Camden Airport, 26 km north-west.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 88.6% 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 | 88.6% |
|---|---|
| Surveyed canopy, Greater Sydney aerial survey, 2019 | 93.4% |
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 98.7% |
Demographics
Top ancestries in Cataract
| English | 4 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 0 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,898 bird observations recorded near Cataract — most often seen:
- Eastern Spinebill (162)
- Pied Currawong (105)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (94)
- Brown Thornbill (89)
- New Holland Honeyeater (86)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (84)
- White-throated Treecreeper (82)
- Australian Raven (77)
- Crimson Rosella (73)
- Australian Magpie (66)
- Superb Lyrebird (65)
- Grey Fantail (62)
- Little Wattlebird (61)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Cataract
- Red Wattlebird (60)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (60)
- Spotted Pardalote (57)
- Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (55)
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (54)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (54)
- Laughing Kookaburra (54)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (53)
- Rufous Whistler (51)
- White-eared Honeyeater (41)
- White-browed Scrubwren (38)
- Gang-gang Cockatoo (37)
- Masked Lapwing (37)
- Variegated Fairy-wren (37)
- Superb Fairy-wren (36)
- Striated Thornbill (35)
- Northern Superb Fairy-wren (33)
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 Cataract:
- Appin (6.4 km)
- Darkes Forest (9.4 km)
- Maddens Plains (11.2 km)
- Douglas Park (11.9 km)
- Wedderburn (11.9 km)
- Thirroul (12 km)
- Wilton (12.2 km)
- Austinmer (12.3 km)
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Streets
- Baden Powell Drive (4)
- Cataract Dam Road (2)