Purfleet NSW 2430
53 addresses · 5 streets
Lyne Electorate › Mid-Coast LGA › Purfleet · 244 km from Sydney
Living Here
Purfleet is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 107 people, with a median age of 32. The typical household earns around $574 a week, with median rent near $185 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 100% rent. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Ancestry NS, English. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2011 → 2021
Getting Around & Local Services
1 medical clinic
1 library
1 post office
2 gyms & sports centres
1 golf club
2 hardware stores
Getting around. Train station: Taree, 4.1 km north · Airport: Taree Airport, 7.2 km north-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: 52.3% 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 | 52.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 69.4% |
Demographics
Unemployment 33.3% · Labour-force participation 10.7%
Population by age in Purfleet
| 0-4 | 10 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 18 |
| 15-19 | 5 |
| 20-24 | 10 |
| 25-34 | 17 |
| 35-44 | 16 |
| 45-54 | 8 |
| 55-64 | 12 |
| 65-74 | 5 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 4 |
Dwelling types in Purfleet
| House | 31 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Purfleet
| <$650 | 13 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 10 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Purfleet
| Aboriginal | 90 |
|---|---|
| Ancestry NS | 16 |
| English | 8 |
| Chinese | 5 |
| Australian | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Purfleet
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 25 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Purfleet
| 0 | 10 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Languages used at home in Purfleet
| Australian Indigenous | 14 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
5,762 bird observations recorded near Purfleet — most often seen:
- Rainbow Lorikeet (429)
- Australian Magpie (364)
- Magpie-lark (319)
- Australian Wood Duck (289)
- Double-barred Finch (264)
- Australian Pelican (259)
- Common Myna (252)
- Laughing Kookaburra (218)
- Spotted Turtle-dove (207)
- Noisy Miner (192)
- Red-browed Finch (179)
- Masked Lapwing (177)
- Tawny Frogmouth (176)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Purfleet
- Pacific Black Duck (171)
- White-faced Heron (168)
- Torresian Crow (166)
- Welcome Swallow (164)
- Willie Wagtail (159)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (155)
- Galah (151)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (149)
- Silver Gull (133)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (132)
- Rock Dove (131)
- Little Wattlebird (130)
- Southern Magpie-lark (130)
- Little Black Cormorant (127)
- Coastal New South Wales Australian Magpie (125)
- Superb Fairy-wren (124)
- Silvereye (122)
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 Purfleet:
- Taree South (0.9 km)
- Glenthorne (1.7 km)
- Pampoolah (3.5 km)
- Koorainghat (4.5 km)
- Taree (4.6 km)
- Tinonee (5.4 km)
- Dumaresq Island (5.6 km)
- Mondrook (6.7 km)
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Streets
- Edwards Drive (8)
- Harry Clarke Drive (16)
- Lobon Circuit (4)
- Russell Lane (10)
- Saunders Street (15)