Little River NSW 2720
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Eden-Monaro Electorate › Snowy Valleys LGA › Little River · 310 km from Sydney
Living Here
Little River is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 38 people, with a median age of 50. The typical household earns around $3,124 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, 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 Tumut Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Little River itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
1 plumber
Getting around. Airport: Tumut Airport, 10.2 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: 17.1% 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 | 17.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 26.0% |
Demographics
Population by age in Little River
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 5 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 6 |
| 45-54 | 7 |
| 55-64 | 9 |
| 65-74 | 10 |
| 75-84 | 4 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Little River
| House | 15 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Little River
| English | 24 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 18 |
| Irish | 6 |
| Ancestry NS | 5 |
| German | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
Housing tenure in Little River
| Owned | 6 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 3 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Little River
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4+ | 4 |
Commute to work in Little River
| Car | 12 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 8 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
694 bird observations recorded near Little River — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (50)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (39)
- Willie Wagtail (39)
- Laughing Kookaburra (37)
- Superb Fairy-wren (37)
- Australian Wood Duck (31)
- Galah (31)
- Crimson Rosella (30)
- Magpie-lark (29)
- Common Starling (27)
- Grey Fantail (27)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (24)
- Australian Raven (21)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Little River
- Little Pied Cormorant (21)
- White-throated Treecreeper (20)
- Australasian Purple Swamphen (19)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (19)
- Red-rumped Parrot (19)
- Whistling Kite (19)
- Welcome Swallow (18)
- Double-barred Finch (16)
- Pied Currawong (15)
- Red-browed Finch (15)
- Eastern Rosella (14)
- Straw-necked Ibis (14)
- Eurasian Coot (13)
- Masked Lapwing (13)
- Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (13)
- Wedge-tailed Eagle (12)
- White-faced Heron (12)
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 Little River:
- Lacmalac (2.7 km)
- Tumut Plains (4.6 km)
- Wermatong (5.5 km)
- Mundongo (5.7 km)
- Bombowlee Creek (6.9 km)
- Jones Bridge (7.5 km)
- Tumut (9.4 km)
- Goobarragandra (9.7 km)
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Streets
- Little River Road (26)
