Coolangatta NSW 2535

Living Here

Coolangatta is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 324 people, with a median age of 51. The typical household earns around $2,058 a week, with median rent near $400 a week. Most homes are houses. About 94% of households own their home and 6% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Scottish. 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 Berry - Kangaroo Valley statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Coolangatta itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Shoalhaven Heads Public School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • tabletalk cafe
• 1 supermarket

  • IGA
• 6 parks

  • Curtis Reserve
  • Vic Zealand Memorial Reserve
  • Pepper Reserve
  • Shoalhaven Heads Memorial Park
  • C H Gumley Reserve
  • Jerry Bailey Reserve
• 1 Catholic church

  • St Patrick's Catholic Church
• 3 hospitals

  • David Berry Hospital
  • Nowra Private Hospital
  • Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital
• 1 post office

  • Shoalhaven Heads Post Office
• 1 service station

  • Ampol Shoalhaven Heads
• 2 golf clubs

  • Shoalhaven Heads Golf Course
  • Worrigee Links Golf Course
• 1 plumber

  • Dynamic Tradies
• 4 places to stay

  • Mountain View Resort
  • Coastal Palms Tourist Park
  • Tall Timbers Tourist Park
  • Merribee

Getting around. Train station: Berry, 7.9 km north · Airport: HMAS Albatross, 19 km south-west.

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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: 23.9% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 2.2% · Labour-force participation 64.3%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

49,133 bird observations recorded near Coolangatta — most often seen:

• Australian Pelican (2,565)
• Australian Pied Oystercatcher (2,500)
• Silver Gull (2,459)
• Eastern Curlew (2,258)
• Bar-tailed Godwit (2,236)
• Australian Raven (2,205)
• Red-capped Plover (2,197)
• Crested Tern (1,947)
• Superb Fairy-wren (1,884)
• White-faced Heron (1,786)
• Little Pied Cormorant (1,766)
• Masked Lapwing (1,748)
• Red-necked Stint (1,702)

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 Coolangatta:

• Shoalhaven Heads (1.7 km)
• Comerong Island (2.8 km)
• Far Meadow (3.1 km)
• Back Forest (3.9 km)
• Numbaa (4.8 km)
• Greenwell Point (6.8 km)
• Bolong (6.9 km)
• Orient Point (7.2 km)

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