Saltwater NSW 2430
4 addresses · 2 streets
Lyne Electorate › Mid-Coast LGA › Saltwater · 242 km from Sydney
Living Here
Saltwater is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 4 people, with a median age of 58. The typical household earns around $1,875 a week. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Old Bar - Manning Point - Red Head statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Saltwater itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 hospital
1 library
2 places to stay
Getting around. Airport: Taree Airport, 13.8 km north.
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: 89.6% 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 | 89.6% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 67.2% |
Demographics
Top ancestries in Saltwater
| English | 4 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 0 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
Commute to work in Saltwater
| Car | 4 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
8,601 bird observations recorded near Saltwater — most often seen:
- Australian Brush-turkey (464)
- South-eastern Little Wattlebird (384)
- Little Wattlebird (369)
- Southern Lewin's Honeyeater (360)
- Coastal New South Wales Australian Magpie (352)
- Laughing Kookaburra (347)
- Lewin's Honeyeater (347)
- Willie Wagtail (339)
- Southern Laughing Kookaburra (328)
- Australian Magpie (312)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (310)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (301)
- White-faced Heron (289)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Saltwater
- Regent Bowerbird (284)
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (280)
- South-east Eastern Whipbird (277)
- Magpie-lark (267)
- Southern Magpie-lark (261)
- Crested Tern (258)
- Superb Fairy-wren (252)
- Grey Fantail (247)
- Eastern Whipbird (244)
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (226)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (225)
- South-eastern Yellow Robin (218)
- Wonga Pigeon (217)
- White-bellied Sea-eagle (214)
- South-eastern Grey Fantail (213)
- Southern Masked Lapwing (209)
- Masked Lapwing (207)
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 Saltwater:
- Wallabi Point (2.6 km)
- Diamond Beach (3.8 km)
- Old Bar (5.4 km)
- Red Head (5.7 km)
- Tallwoods Village (6.4 km)
- Rainbow Flat (6.6 km)
- Koorainghat (6.7 km)
- Black Head (6.9 km)
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Streets
- Follies Road (2)
- Saltwater Road (2)