Dirty Creek NSW 2456
147 addresses · 18 streets
Page Electorate › Coffs Harbour LGA › Dirty Creek · 468 km from Sydney
Living Here
Dirty Creek is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 106 people, with a median age of 32. The typical household earns around $1,125 a week, with median rent near $385 a week. Most homes are houses. About 83% of households own their home and 17% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Woolgoolga - Arrawarra statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Dirty Creek itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 golf club
Getting around. Airport: Clarence Valley Regional Airport, 28.6 km north-west.
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: 63% 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 | 63.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 67.5% |
Demographics
Unemployment 11.3% · Labour-force participation 66.3%
Population by age in Dirty Creek
| 0-4 | 7 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 16 |
| 15-19 | 7 |
| 20-24 | 6 |
| 25-34 | 22 |
| 35-44 | 8 |
| 45-54 | 12 |
| 55-64 | 14 |
| 65-74 | 9 |
| 75-84 | 5 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Dirty Creek
| House | 33 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Dirty Creek
| <$650 | 6 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 15 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 3 |
| $3,000+ | 5 |
Top ancestries in Dirty Creek
| Australian | 61 |
|---|---|
| English | 29 |
| Other | 21 |
| Aboriginal | 13 |
| Irish | 9 |
| German | 8 |
Housing tenure in Dirty Creek
| Owned | 11 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 18 |
| Rented | 6 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Dirty Creek
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 9 |
| 3 | 6 |
| 4+ | 10 |
Commute to work in Dirty Creek
| Car | 31 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 12 |
Top countries of birth in Dirty Creek
| India | 4 |
|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 3 |
| Malaysia | 3 |
Languages used at home in Dirty Creek
| Punjabi | 12 |
|---|---|
| Mandarin | 5 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
602 bird observations recorded near Dirty Creek — most often seen:
- Black-necked Stork (88)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (34)
- Laughing Kookaburra (33)
- Australian Owlet-nightjar (24)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (24)
- Noisy Friarbird (24)
- White-throated Treecreeper (24)
- Grey Fantail (21)
- Scarlet Honeyeater (20)
- Tawny Frogmouth (20)
- Australian Magpie (19)
- Noisy Miner (19)
- Spotted Pardalote (17)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Dirty Creek
- Masked Lapwing (16)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (16)
- Brown Thornbill (15)
- Cicadabird (15)
- Eastern Whipbird (15)
- Mistletoebird (15)
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (15)
- Australian Wood Duck (14)
- Striated Thornbill (14)
- Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (14)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (13)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (13)
- Pied Currawong (13)
- Crested Pigeon (12)
- Magpie-lark (12)
- Variegated Fairy-wren (12)
- Brolga (11)
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 Dirty Creek:
- Upper Corindi (4.4 km)
- Corindi Beach (6 km)
- Arrawarra (7.3 km)
- Red Rock (7.4 km)
- Halfway Creek (7.8 km)
- Barcoongere (8.7 km)
- Sherwood (9 km)
- Arrawarra Headland (9.6 km)
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Streets
- Alice Close (3)
- Barcoongere Way (5)
- Bonita Drive (6)
- Dirty Creek Road (16)
- Dundoo Reach (1)
- Dundoo Reach (1)
- Falconers Lane (1)
- Flinty Road (4)
- Kathleen Drive (63)
- Pacific Highway (2)
- Range Road (21)
- Range Road E (3)
- Red Ridge Road (2)
- Ridge Close (2)
- Sharpe Drive (7)
- Solitary Islands Way (7)
- Tiffany Close (2)
- Woodward Close (1)
