Shark Creek NSW 2463
31 addresses · 8 streets
Page Electorate › Clarence Valley LGA › Shark Creek · 516 km from Sydney
Living Here
Shark Creek is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 30 people, with a median age of 56. The typical household earns around $933 a week, with median rent near $100 a week. Most homes are houses. About 79% of households own their home and 21% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Grafton Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Shark Creek itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
1 golf club
Getting around. Airport: Clarence Valley Regional Airport, 29.2 km south-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: 85.9% 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 | 85.9% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 70.0% |
Demographics
Population by age in Shark Creek
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 3 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 7 |
| 55-64 | 5 |
| 65-74 | 7 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Shark Creek
| House | 7 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Shark Creek
| <$650 | 3 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 12 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Shark Creek
| Australian | 14 |
|---|---|
| English | 12 |
| Scottish | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Shark Creek
| Owned | 11 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 4 |
| Rented | 4 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Shark Creek
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 4 |
Commute to work in Shark Creek
| Car | 8 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
2,735 bird observations recorded near Shark Creek — most often seen:
- Emu (1,707)
- Laughing Kookaburra (55)
- Australian Magpie (52)
- Superb Fairy-wren (49)
- Pied Butcherbird (46)
- Willie Wagtail (46)
- Torresian Crow (42)
- Brown Thornbill (40)
- Masked Lapwing (40)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (37)
- Noisy Friarbird (36)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (35)
- Black-shouldered Kite (34)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Shark Creek
- Brown Honeyeater (34)
- Lewin's Honeyeater (34)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (33)
- Red-browed Finch (33)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (32)
- Noisy Miner (32)
- Welcome Swallow (32)
- Magpie-lark (31)
- Grey Fantail (30)
- Pacific Black Duck (30)
- Rufous Whistler (30)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (29)
- Brolga (29)
- White-faced Heron (29)
- Blue-faced Honeyeater (28)
- Australian White Ibis (25)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (25)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
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Streets
- Brooms Head Road (2)
- Loughmans Lane (3)
- Pacific Highway (1)
- Shark Creek Road (17)
- Stokes Lane (2)
- Stokes Road (1)
- Upper Shark Creek Road (1)
- Wallaby Lane (4)