Mooneba NSW 2440
149 addresses · 5 streets
Cowper Electorate › Kempsey LGA › Mooneba · 344 km from Sydney
Living Here
Mooneba is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 71 people, with a median age of 50. The typical household earns around $1,291 a week, with median rent near $350 a week. Most homes are houses. About 76% of households own their home and 24% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. 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 Kempsey Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Mooneba itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
Getting around. Airport: Kempsey Airport, 7.5 km south-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: 26.2% 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 | 26.2% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 38.8% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.2% · Labour-force participation 53.4%
Population by age in Mooneba
| 0-4 | 6 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 10 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 9 |
| 25-34 | 4 |
| 35-44 | 6 |
| 45-54 | 5 |
| 55-64 | 13 |
| 65-74 | 8 |
| 75-84 | 12 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Mooneba
| House | 24 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Mooneba
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 10 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 3 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Mooneba
| English | 47 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 29 |
| Irish | 7 |
| Scottish | 6 |
| German | 4 |
| Ancestry NS | 3 |
Housing tenure in Mooneba
| Owned | 11 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 8 |
| Rented | 6 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Mooneba
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 8 |
| 2 | 15 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Mooneba
| Car | 17 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
3,139 bird observations recorded near Mooneba — most often seen:
- Australasian Grebe (176)
- Eurasian Coot (162)
- Pacific Black Duck (154)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (154)
- Australian Magpie (147)
- Laughing Kookaburra (134)
- Pied Butcherbird (131)
- Torresian Crow (131)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (130)
- Welcome Swallow (124)
- Magpie-lark (122)
- Hardhead (116)
- Masked Lapwing (114)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Mooneba
- Red-browed Finch (107)
- Grey Fantail (105)
- Lewin's Honeyeater (100)
- Willie Wagtail (98)
- Peaceful Dove (86)
- Australian Wood Duck (82)
- White-throated Gerygone (77)
- Australasian Purple Swamphen (76)
- Little Pied Cormorant (74)
- White-faced Heron (72)
- Jacky Winter (71)
- Noisy Miner (71)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (69)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (66)
- Noisy Friarbird (65)
- Rufous Whistler (63)
- Grey Butcherbird (62)
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 Mooneba:
- Turners Flat (1.5 km)
- Sherwood (3.7 km)
- Skillion Flat (4.5 km)
- Corangula (5.2 km)
- Yessabah (5.9 km)
- Deep Creek (6.9 km)
- Aldavilla (7.3 km)
- Yarravel (7.3 km)
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Streets
- Armidale Road (2)
- Borgers Access Road (4)
- Ducats Lane (2)
- Mooneba Road (140)
- Orroroo Road (1)
