Dombarton NSW 2530

Living Here

Dombarton is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 130 people, with a median age of 54. The typical household earns around $2,094 a week, with median rent near $300 a week. Most homes are houses. About 79% of households own their home and 12% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. 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 Horsley - Kembla Grange statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Dombarton itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 3 schools

  • Dapto Primary School
  • Dapto High School
  • St John's Catholic Primary School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Cafe
• 5 parks

  • Stane Dyke Park
  • Mogomorra Park
  • McPhail Reserve
  • Bankbook Park
  • Karrara Park
• 1 Catholic church

  • St John's Catholic Church
• 9 hospitals

  • Figtree Private Hospital
  • Port Kembla Hospital
  • Wollongong Private Hospital
  • Wollongong Day Surgery
  • Wollongong Hospital
  • South Coast Private Hospital
  • Victoria Street Private Hospital
  • Shellharbour Hospital
  • Shellharbour Private Hospital
• 1 library

  • Dapto District Library
• 2 golf clubs

  • Kembla Grange Golf Club
  • The Huntley
• 1 hardware store

  • Bunnings Kembla Grange
• 1 place to stay

  • Elsinor Motel

Getting around. Train station: Dapto, 4.2 km south-east · Railway halt: Kembla Grange, 4.9 km east · Airport: Shellharbour Airport, 11.1 km south.

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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: 72.7% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 1.5% · Labour-force participation 59.3%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

43,726 bird observations recorded near Dombarton — most often seen:

• Rainbow Lorikeet (2,179)
• Australian Raven (2,048)
• Lewin's Honeyeater (1,974)
• Silver Gull (1,958)
• Eastern Whipbird (1,792)
• Common Myna (1,758)
• Grey Fantail (1,732)
• Australian Magpie (1,718)
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (1,698)
• Magpie-lark (1,597)
• Superb Fairy-wren (1,550)
• Satin Bowerbird (1,529)
• Noisy Miner (1,498)

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 Dombarton:

• Wongawilli (1.5 km)
• Stream Hill (1.9 km)
• Kembla Grange (2.4 km)
• Horsley (3.1 km)
• Brownsville (4.4 km)
• Cleveland (4.7 km)
• Huntley (4.7 km)
• Farmborough Heights (5.1 km)

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