Dumaresq Island NSW 2430

Living Here

Dumaresq Island is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 70 people, with a median age of 57. The typical household earns around $2,583 a week, with median rent near $231 a week. Most homes are houses. About 56% of households own their home and 44% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 6 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Taree statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Dumaresq Island itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 9 schools

  • Cundletown Public School
  • Manning Valley Anglican College
  • Chatham Public School
  • Chatham High School
  • St Clare's High School
  • Taree High School
  • Taree Public School
  • Manning Gardens Public School
  • St Josephs Primary School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Chatam Chinese Restaurant
• 6 parks

  • Victoria Square
  • Market Square
  • Cundletown Oval
  • Taree Rotary Park
  • Mitchell Reserve
  • Chatham Park
• 3 hospitals

  • Manning Base Hospital
  • Mayo Private Hospital
  • Wingham Community Hospital
• 3 vets

  • Taree Vetinary Hospital
  • Manning Veterinary Hospital
  • Colin Dry & Associates Vetinary Clinic
• 1 library

  • Greater Taree City Library
• 2 service stations

  • BP
  • Ampol Foodary Dawson River
• 2 gyms & sports centres

  • Manning Aquatic Leisure Centre
  • Manning River Rowing Club
• 1 golf club

  • Club Taree Golf Course
• 1 playground

  • Cundle Green
• 2 hardware stores

  • Reece
  • Rocket Tools
• 21 places to stay

  • Cundle Motel
  • Country Plaza
  • Motel Chatham
  • Blackboy Tree Motel
  • Alabaster Motor Inn
  • Aquatic Motor Inn
  • Crescent Motel
  • River View Motor Inn
  • Marco Polo
  • Highway Motor Inn

  See all 21 places to stay near Dumaresq Island →

Getting around. Train station: Taree, 4.9 km west · Airport: Taree Airport, 2 km north.

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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: 3.7% 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

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

5,679 bird observations recorded near Dumaresq Island — most often seen:

• Rainbow Lorikeet (393)
• Australian Magpie (382)
• Australian Wood Duck (303)
• Magpie-lark (296)
• Double-barred Finch (265)
• Australian Pelican (264)
• Pacific Black Duck (226)
• Common Myna (217)
• Spotted Turtle-dove (200)
• White-faced Heron (190)
• Laughing Kookaburra (188)
• Masked Lapwing (183)
• Noisy Miner (170)

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 Dumaresq Island:

• Cundletown (1.7 km)
• Pampoolah (3.6 km)
• Glenthorne (4.1 km)
• Ghinni Ghinni (4.8 km)
• Taree (4.9 km)
• Brimbin (5.5 km)
• Purfleet (5.6 km)
• Taree South (5.9 km)

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