Turners Flat NSW 2440
74 addresses · 5 streets
Cowper Electorate › Kempsey LGA › Turners Flat · 345 km from Sydney
Living Here
Turners Flat is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 169 people, with a median age of 43. The typical household earns around $1,781 a week, with median rent near $350 a week. Most homes are houses. About 87% of households own their home and 6% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Kempsey Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Turners Flat itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
Getting around. Airport: Kempsey Airport, 9 km south-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: 49.5% 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 | 49.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 55.4% |
Demographics
Unemployment 2.4% · Labour-force participation 60.9%
Population by age in Turners Flat
| 0-4 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 26 |
| 15-19 | 10 |
| 20-24 | 6 |
| 25-34 | 17 |
| 35-44 | 28 |
| 45-54 | 24 |
| 55-64 | 30 |
| 65-74 | 19 |
| 75-84 | 3 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Turners Flat
| House | 46 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Turners Flat
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 20 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 9 |
| $3,000+ | 7 |
Top ancestries in Turners Flat
| Australian | 85 |
|---|---|
| English | 63 |
| Irish | 24 |
| Scottish | 21 |
| Ancestry NS | 21 |
| German | 9 |
Housing tenure in Turners Flat
| Owned | 23 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 22 |
| Rented | 3 |
| Other | 4 |
Cars per household in Turners Flat
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
| 2 | 23 |
| 3 | 16 |
| 4+ | 8 |
Commute to work in Turners Flat
| Car | 53 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 3 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 9 |
Top countries of birth in Turners Flat
| England | 9 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 4 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
473 bird observations recorded near Turners Flat — most often seen:
- Pied Butcherbird (27)
- Laughing Kookaburra (26)
- Australian Magpie (21)
- Grey Fantail (21)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (20)
- Lewin's Honeyeater (19)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (19)
- Torresian Crow (19)
- Australian King-parrot (18)
- Australian Wood Duck (17)
- Spotted Pardalote (17)
- South-eastern Yellow-faced Honeyeater (16)
- Coastal Spotted Pardalote (15)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Turners Flat
- Rufous Whistler (15)
- Scarlet Honeyeater (15)
- Crested Pigeon (14)
- Red-browed Finch (14)
- Variegated Fairy-wren (14)
- White-headed Pigeon (14)
- Grey Butcherbird (13)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (13)
- Noisy Miner (13)
- South-eastern Grey Fantail (13)
- Superb Fairy-wren (13)
- Pacific Black Duck (12)
- Tawny Frogmouth (12)
- Central Eastern White-throated Treecreeper (11)
- Eastern Whipbird (11)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (11)
- Eastern Spinebill (10)
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 Turners Flat:
- Mooneba (1.5 km)
- Corangula (3.9 km)
- Skillion Flat (4.8 km)
- Sherwood (5.1 km)
- Deep Creek (5.9 km)
- Yessabah (6.8 km)
- Temagog (7 km)
- Yarravel (8.6 km)
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Streets
- Lovelocks Creek Road (7)
- Maineys Road (17)
- Turners Flat Road (26)
- Wheeldons Access (3)
- Willi Willi Road (21)
