Moorwatha NSW 2640
43 addresses · 15 streets
Farrer Electorate › Greater Hume Shire LGA › Moorwatha · 468 km from Sydney
Living Here
Moorwatha is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 60 people, with a median age of 56. The typical household earns around $2,250 a week, with median rent near $305 a week. Most homes are houses. About 58% of households own their home and 23% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, German. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 10 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Albury Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Moorwatha itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
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% 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 | 4.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 4.9% |
Demographics
Population by age in Moorwatha
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 3 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 3 |
| 35-44 | 9 |
| 45-54 | 6 |
| 55-64 | 23 |
| 65-74 | 4 |
| 75-84 | 7 |
| 85+ | 4 |
Dwelling types in Moorwatha
| House | 22 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Moorwatha
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 5 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Moorwatha
| English | 28 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 12 |
| German | 9 |
| Scottish | 9 |
| Ancestry NS | 9 |
| Irish | 7 |
Housing tenure in Moorwatha
| Owned | 7 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 8 |
| Rented | 6 |
| Other | 5 |
Cars per household in Moorwatha
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 11 |
| 3 | 10 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Moorwatha
| Car | 20 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 9 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,760 bird observations recorded near Moorwatha — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (141)
- Eastern Rosella (125)
- Noisy Miner (118)
- Australian Raven (112)
- Galah (100)
- Common Starling (91)
- Magpie-lark (86)
- Red-rumped Parrot (80)
- Striated Pardalote (78)
- Little Raven (74)
- Laughing Kookaburra (71)
- Willie Wagtail (64)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (55)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Moorwatha
- Crested Pigeon (53)
- Grey Butcherbird (44)
- Red Wattlebird (42)
- Australian Wood Duck (41)
- White-winged Chough (41)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (34)
- Pied Butcherbird (34)
- Superb Fairy-wren (34)
- Welcome Swallow (34)
- House Sparrow (29)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (28)
- Pied Currawong (28)
- Brown Falcon (25)
- Masked Lapwing (25)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (25)
- Pacific Black Duck (24)
- Rufous Songlark (24)
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 Moorwatha:
- Bungowannah (10.2 km)
- Burrumbuttock (10.4 km)
- Howlong (11.3 km)
- Brocklesby (12 km)
- Jindera (15.4 km)
- Glenellen (16.6 km)
- Splitters Creek (18.1 km)
- Balldale (20.1 km)
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Streets
- Bunn Road (1)
- Chudleigh Road (1)
- Clifton Road (1)
- Courtney Lane (3)
- Glenview Road (1)
- Hillside Road (1)
- Hovell Road (9)
- Howlong Burrumbuttock Road (8)
- Howlong-burrumbuttock Road (1)
- Humphreys Road (1)
- Kywong Howlong Road (3)
- Moorwatha Road (9)
- Reid Road (2)
- Vile Lane (1)
- Ziebarth Road (1)
