Gunning NSW 2581
682 addresses · 39 streets
Hume Electorate › Upper Lachlan Shire LGA › Gunning · 206 km from Sydney
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Living Here
Gunning is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 820 people, with a median age of 38. The typical household earns around $2,049 a week, with median rent near $350 a week. Most homes are houses. About 83% of households own their home and 15% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Yass Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Gunning itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
2 cafés & restaurants
1 park
1 Catholic church
1 pharmacy
1 library
1 post office
1 service station
1 gym
1 golf club
1 butcher
1 mechanic
2 places to stay
Getting around. Train station: Gunning, 600 m north-west · Airport: Goulburn Airport, 42.6 km east.
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: 4.6% 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 | 4.6% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 3.3% |
Demographics
Unemployment 2.8% · Labour-force participation 63.8%
Population by age in Gunning
| 0-4 | 73 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 126 |
| 15-19 | 30 |
| 20-24 | 26 |
| 25-34 | 105 |
| 35-44 | 116 |
| 45-54 | 113 |
| 55-64 | 97 |
| 65-74 | 71 |
| 75-84 | 50 |
| 85+ | 13 |
Dwelling types in Gunning
| House | 280 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 4 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 3 |
Households by weekly income in Gunning
| <$650 | 37 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 59 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 81 |
| $3,000+ | 80 |
Top ancestries in Gunning
| Australian | 361 |
|---|---|
| English | 353 |
| Irish | 134 |
| Scottish | 84 |
| Ancestry NS | 55 |
| German | 40 |
Housing tenure in Gunning
| Owned | 86 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 149 |
| Rented | 42 |
| Other | 7 |
Cars per household in Gunning
| 0 | 5 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 73 |
| 2 | 134 |
| 3 | 47 |
| 4+ | 29 |
Commute to work in Gunning
| Car | 252 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 13 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 64 |
Top countries of birth in Gunning
| New Zealand | 15 |
|---|---|
| England | 13 |
| United States | 9 |
| Netherlands | 5 |
| Ireland | 4 |
| Papua New Guinea | 4 |
Languages used at home in Gunning
| French | 10 |
|---|---|
| Italian | 4 |
| Spanish | 4 |
| Mandarin | 3 |
| Vietnamese | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
3,794 bird observations recorded near Gunning — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (272)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (236)
- Australian Wood Duck (226)
- Common Starling (223)
- Galah (198)
- Magpie-lark (166)
- Australian Raven (158)
- Eastern Rosella (148)
- Crimson Rosella (139)
- House Sparrow (139)
- Pacific Black Duck (128)
- Willie Wagtail (124)
- Dusky Moorhen (120)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Gunning
- Pied Currawong (118)
- Laughing Kookaburra (116)
- Superb Fairy-wren (106)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (105)
- Red-rumped Parrot (103)
- Noisy Miner (98)
- Welcome Swallow (90)
- Brown Falcon (88)
- Eurasian Coot (86)
- Weebill (84)
- Red Wattlebird (82)
- Striated Pardalote (79)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (74)
- Crested Pigeon (73)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (73)
- Masked Lapwing (72)
- Australasian Grebe (70)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
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Streets
- Adam Street (8)
- Ambar Lane (7)
- Biala Street (79)
- Bond Street (10)
- Boureong Drive (11)
- Bradbury Lane (1)
- Bunduluk Place (4)
- Collector Road (53)
- Cooper Street (8)
- Copeland Street (13)
- Crookwell Road (1)
- Cullavin Street (14)
- Cullerin Road (11)
- Dalton Road (19)
- Franklin Lane (1)
- Grabben Gullen Road (3)
- Green Avenue (39)
- Grogan Place (3)
- Grovenor Street (31)
- Gundaroo Road (25)
- Gundaroo Street (13)
- Gundungurra Drive (3)
- Hume Highway (5)
- Hume Street (28)
- Lade Vale Road (19)
- Lerida Street (11)
- Medways Lane (6)
- Nelanglo Street (24)
- Park Street (1)
- Pedell Lane (2)
- Ryan Place (3)
- Saxby Lane (17)
- Saxby Lane W (5)
- Saxby Street (17)
- Veterans Road (1)
- Warrataw Street (31)
- Wilton Lane (4)
- Wombat Street (23)
- Yass Street (128)
