Tyalgum NSW 2484

Living Here

Tyalgum is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 521 people, with a median age of 46. The typical household earns around $1,237 a week, with median rent near $390 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 English, Australian, 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 Murwillumbah Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Tyalgum itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Tyalgum Public School
• 2 cafés & restaurants

  • Tyalgum Store
  • Flutterbies Cafe
• 1 park

  • NORCO Park
• 1 post office

  • Tyalgum LPO
• 1 place to stay

  • Tyalgum Hotel

Getting around. Airport: Gold Coast Airport, 35.8 km north-east.

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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: 60.8% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 6.7% · Labour-force participation 56.2%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

3,497 bird observations recorded near Tyalgum — most often seen:

• Lewin's Honeyeater (226)
• Laughing Kookaburra (187)
• White-headed Pigeon (168)
• Torresian Crow (162)
• Brown Cuckoo-dove (150)
• Bar-shouldered Dove (149)
• Eastern Whipbird (144)
• Australian Magpie (130)
• Brown Thornbill (130)
• Willie Wagtail (123)
• Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (117)
• Noisy Miner (117)
• Eastern Yellow Robin (115)

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 Tyalgum:

• Tyalgum Creek (4.1 km)
• Limpinwood (5 km)
• Pumpenbil (5.7 km)
• Brays Creek (6 km)
• Back Creek (6.3 km)
• Zara (6.3 km)
• Cedar Creek (7.8 km)
• Hopkins Creek (8.3 km)

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