Yellow Dam NSW 2371
12 addresses · 2 streets
New England Electorate › Inverell LGA › Yellow Dam · 499 km from Sydney
Living Here
Yellow Dam is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 4 people, with a median age of 73. The typical household earns around $450 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Aboriginal, Chinese. 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 Inverell Region - East statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Yellow Dam itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
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: 30.5% 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 | 30.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 68.5% |
Demographics
Population by age in Yellow Dam
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Yellow Dam
| House | 8 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Yellow Dam
| <$650 | 3 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 0 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Yellow Dam
| Australian | 3 |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
| English | 0 |
Housing tenure in Yellow Dam
| Owned | 6 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
505 bird observations recorded near Yellow Dam — most often seen:
- Fuscous Honeyeater (25)
- Willie Wagtail (24)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (23)
- Australian Magpie (20)
- Peaceful Dove (20)
- Brown Treecreeper (19)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (19)
- Noisy Friarbird (19)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (19)
- Diamond Firetail (18)
- Spotted Pardalote (18)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (18)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (17)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Yellow Dam
- Rufous Whistler (17)
- White-throated Treecreeper (17)
- Magpie-lark (16)
- Noisy Miner (16)
- Pied Currawong (16)
- Superb Fairy-wren (16)
- Dusky Woodswallow (15)
- Eastern Rosella (15)
- Weebill (15)
- Mistletoebird (14)
- Red Wattlebird (14)
- Australian Raven (13)
- Jacky Winter (13)
- Little Lorikeet (13)
- Turquoise Parrot (12)
- Welcome Swallow (12)
- White-naped Honeyeater (12)
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 Yellow Dam:
- Rocky Creek (13.7 km)
- Pindaroi (16.5 km)
- Emmaville (19.2 km)
- Wellingrove (26.8 km)
- Kings Plains (27.1 km)
- Dumaresq Valley (27.7 km)
- Torrington (29.8 km)
- Ashford (30.2 km)
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Streets
- Emmaville Road (6)
- Rocky Creek Road (6)
