Darawank NSW 2428
356 addresses · 17 streets
Lyne Electorate › Mid-Coast LGA › Darawank · 230 km from Sydney
Living Here
Darawank is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 451 people, with a median age of 52. The typical household earns around $1,285 a week, with median rent near $335 a week. Most homes are houses. About 83% of households own their home and 13% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Forster-Tuncurry Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Darawank itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
1 golf club
Getting around. Airport: Forster (Wallis Island) Airport, 11.8 km south.
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: 74.7% 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 | 74.7% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 50.5% |
Demographics
Unemployment 7.1% · Labour-force participation 50.6%
Population by age in Darawank
| 0-4 | 13 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 51 |
| 15-19 | 24 |
| 20-24 | 20 |
| 25-34 | 20 |
| 35-44 | 47 |
| 45-54 | 62 |
| 55-64 | 90 |
| 65-74 | 71 |
| 75-84 | 45 |
| 85+ | 8 |
Dwelling types in Darawank
| House | 126 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 32 |
Households by weekly income in Darawank
| <$650 | 35 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 47 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 26 |
| $3,000+ | 31 |
Top ancestries in Darawank
| Australian | 207 |
|---|---|
| English | 152 |
| Ancestry NS | 55 |
| Scottish | 46 |
| Aboriginal | 36 |
| Irish | 34 |
Housing tenure in Darawank
| Owned | 80 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 48 |
| Rented | 20 |
| Other | 6 |
Cars per household in Darawank
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 39 |
| 2 | 50 |
| 3 | 32 |
| 4+ | 23 |
Commute to work in Darawank
| Car | 121 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 3 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 27 |
Top countries of birth in Darawank
| England | 13 |
|---|---|
| Malta | 6 |
| Fiji | 5 |
| New Zealand | 5 |
| South Africa | 5 |
Languages used at home in Darawank
| Italian | 4 |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | 3 |
| Hindi | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
3,785 bird observations recorded near Darawank — most often seen:
- Red-browed Finch (715)
- Lewin's Honeyeater (269)
- White-browed Scrubwren (268)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (200)
- White-cheeked Honeyeater (162)
- Eastern Spinebill (150)
- Silvereye (143)
- Laughing Kookaburra (134)
- Grey Fantail (132)
- Brown Thornbill (130)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (130)
- Variegated Fairy-wren (118)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (115)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Darawank
- Superb Fairy-wren (114)
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (87)
- Australian Magpie (85)
- Noisy Miner (77)
- Australian Wood Duck (76)
- Tawny Frogmouth (73)
- Magpie-lark (68)
- Golden Whistler (67)
- Eastern Rosella (59)
- Striated Thornbill (57)
- Crested Pigeon (54)
- Masked Lapwing (53)
- Willie Wagtail (51)
- Little Wattlebird (50)
- Noisy Friarbird (50)
- Eastern Whipbird (49)
- Pied Butcherbird (49)
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 Darawank:
- Failford (2.8 km)
- Hallidays Point (4.3 km)
- Tallwoods Village (5.6 km)
- Black Head (6.7 km)
- Possum Brush (6.7 km)
- Rainbow Flat (7.4 km)
- Red Head (7.5 km)
- Tuncurry (8.6 km)
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Streets
- Aquatic Road (200)
- Aylen Place (6)
- Butea Close (5)
- Darawank Close (8)
- Failford Road (5)
- Glider Avenue (23)
- Laurina Drive (24)
- Manns Road (10)
- Midge Orchid Road (2)
- Osprey Place (7)
- Riverview Place (13)
- Serene Close (2)
- The Lakes Way (22)
- Timber Tops Drive (6)
- Ton O Fun Road (8)
- Tuncurry Tip Road (1)
- Wards Road (14)
