Tallong NSW 2579
615 addresses · 40 streets
Hume Electorate › Goulburn Mulwaree LGA › Tallong · 140 km from Sydney
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Living Here
Tallong is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 914 people, with a median age of 48. The typical household earns around $1,579 a week, with median rent near $385 a week. Most homes are houses. About 89% of households own their home and 9% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. 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 Goulburn Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Tallong itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 café or restaurant
1 park
1 golf club
Getting around. Train station: Tallong, 2 km north-west · Airport: Goulburn Airport, 35.2 km 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: 71.5% 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 | 71.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 81.0% |
Demographics
Unemployment 2.9% · Labour-force participation 54.7%
Population by age in Tallong
| 0-4 | 43 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 128 |
| 15-19 | 62 |
| 20-24 | 19 |
| 25-34 | 70 |
| 35-44 | 94 |
| 45-54 | 132 |
| 55-64 | 158 |
| 65-74 | 123 |
| 75-84 | 81 |
| 85+ | 10 |
Dwelling types in Tallong
| House | 319 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Tallong
| <$650 | 46 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 99 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 94 |
| $3,000+ | 58 |
Top ancestries in Tallong
| Australian | 391 |
|---|---|
| English | 355 |
| Irish | 128 |
| Scottish | 97 |
| Ancestry NS | 66 |
| Other | 62 |
Housing tenure in Tallong
| Owned | 137 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 143 |
| Rented | 27 |
| Other | 6 |
Cars per household in Tallong
| 0 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 58 |
| 2 | 130 |
| 3 | 72 |
| 4+ | 50 |
Commute to work in Tallong
| Car | 246 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 8 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 77 |
Top countries of birth in Tallong
| England | 37 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 17 |
| South Africa | 6 |
| Germany | 5 |
| Scotland | 5 |
| Croatia | 4 |
Languages used at home in Tallong
| Italian | 5 |
|---|---|
| German | 4 |
| Greek | 3 |
| Serbian | 3 |
| Tagalog | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
2,503 bird observations recorded near Tallong — most often seen:
- Australian Raven (138)
- Laughing Kookaburra (138)
- Pied Currawong (135)
- Magpie-lark (106)
- Australian Magpie (104)
- Crimson Rosella (101)
- South-eastern Glossy Black-cockatoo (101)
- Red Wattlebird (96)
- Eastern Rosella (94)
- Australian Wood Duck (93)
- Superb Fairy-wren (86)
- Noisy Miner (81)
- Welcome Swallow (81)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Tallong
- Grey Shrike-thrush (80)
- Willie Wagtail (77)
- Spotted Pardalote (73)
- White-throated Treecreeper (73)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (72)
- White-eared Honeyeater (72)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (72)
- Pacific Black Duck (70)
- Common Starling (68)
- White-winged Chough (68)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (65)
- Grey Butcherbird (65)
- Brown Thornbill (63)
- Eurasian Coot (62)
- Australasian Purple Swamphen (58)
- White-faced Heron (58)
- Eastern Spinebill (53)
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 Tallong:
- Wingello (6.3 km)
- Marulan (9.9 km)
- Paddys River (11.4 km)
- Penrose (11.9 km)
- Brayton (15.5 km)
- Carrick (19.6 km)
- Bundanoon (19.7 km)
- Greenwich Park (22.1 km)
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Streets
- Acacia Avenue (6)
- Badgerys Lookout Road (31)
- Banksia Avenue (7)
- Barbers Creek Road (5)
- Binghams Lane (5)
- Blues Point Road (2)
- Bottlebrush Close (9)
- Bumballa Road (14)
- Bumballa Street (30)
- Burkitt Road (2)
- Burnt Pine Road (1)
- Caoura Road (140)
- Casuarina Avenue (7)
- Clouts Creek Road (1)
- Cockatoo Close (11)
- Davenport Close (2)
- Gold Field Road (8)
- Grevillea Close (10)
- Hakea Close (7)
- Highland Way (39)
- Hope Street (2)
- Huon Street (24)
- Kettles Lane (20)
- Lomatia Close (9)
- Long Point Road (17)
- Memorial Drive (6)
- Mulwaree Drive (92)
- Old Wingello Road (7)
- Railway Parade (31)
- Razorback Road (4)
- Redgum Drive (4)
- Scribbly Gum Avenue (14)
- Stringy Bark Avenue (7)
- Tallawa Road (6)
- Tamar Street (7)
- Vinicombes Road (8)
- Warrima Drive (10)
- Watling Close (2)
- Weir Road (2)
- Wistringia Place (6)
