Cockwhy NSW 2539
9 addresses · 2 streets
Gilmore Electorate › Shoalhaven LGA › Cockwhy · 204 km from Sydney
Living Here
Cockwhy is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 25 people, with a median age of 33. The typical household earns around $2,624 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Eurobodalla Hinterland statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Cockwhy 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: 92.5% 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 | 92.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 97.1% |
Demographics
Population by age in Cockwhy
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 8 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 3 |
| 35-44 | 3 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Cockwhy
| House | 5 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Cockwhy
| Australian | 11 |
|---|---|
| English | 4 |
| Irish | 4 |
| Ancestry NS | 4 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Cockwhy
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 6 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Cockwhy
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 6 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Cockwhy
| Car | 8 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,129 bird observations recorded near Cockwhy — most often seen:
- Superb Lyrebird (196)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (65)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (54)
- Bassian Thrush (50)
- Powerful Owl (44)
- Satin Bowerbird (44)
- Eastern Whipbird (41)
- Glossy Black-cockatoo (39)
- Pied Currawong (38)
- Southern Boobook (37)
- Grey Fantail (36)
- Masked Owl (33)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (33)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Cockwhy
- White-throated Treecreeper (32)
- Lewin's Honeyeater (31)
- Laughing Kookaburra (30)
- Brown Thornbill (29)
- Wonga Pigeon (28)
- Sooty Owl (26)
- Eastern Spinebill (25)
- Gang-gang Cockatoo (24)
- Painted Button-quail (24)
- Variegated Fairy-wren (24)
- Crimson Rosella (23)
- Brown Gerygone (22)
- Australian King-parrot (21)
- Spotted Pardalote (21)
- Golden Whistler (20)
- White-browed Scrubwren (20)
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (19)
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 Cockwhy:
- East Lynne (6 km)
- Brooman (7 km)
- Pretty Beach (7.5 km)
- Kioloa (7.8 km)
- Termeil (8 km)
- Pebbly Beach (8.3 km)
- Mogood (8.9 km)
- Bawley Point (9.5 km)
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Streets
- Hapgood Road (1)
- Princes Highway (8)