Yessabah NSW 2440
65 addresses · 9 streets
Cowper Electorate › Kempsey LGA › Yessabah · 339 km from Sydney
Living Here
Yessabah is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 111 people, with a median age of 44. The typical household earns around $1,281 a week, with median rent near $125 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% 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 Kempsey Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Yessabah itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
Getting around. Airport: Kempsey Airport, 7.8 km 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: 73.2% 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 | 73.2% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 81.4% |
Demographics
Unemployment 6.8% · Labour-force participation 47.3%
Population by age in Yessabah
| 0-4 | 9 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 11 |
| 15-19 | 4 |
| 20-24 | 5 |
| 25-34 | 14 |
| 35-44 | 17 |
| 45-54 | 11 |
| 55-64 | 11 |
| 65-74 | 31 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Yessabah
| House | 38 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Yessabah
| <$650 | 14 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 10 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 10 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Yessabah
| English | 51 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 47 |
| Irish | 11 |
| Other | 9 |
| Ancestry NS | 8 |
| Scottish | 7 |
Housing tenure in Yessabah
| Owned | 25 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 13 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Yessabah
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 16 |
| 3 | 11 |
| 4+ | 6 |
Commute to work in Yessabah
| Car | 26 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Top countries of birth in Yessabah
| England | 6 |
|---|
Languages used at home in Yessabah
| Spanish | 4 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
2,969 bird observations recorded near Yessabah — most often seen:
- Lewin's Honeyeater (239)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (179)
- Eastern Whipbird (170)
- Torresian Crow (169)
- Laughing Kookaburra (159)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (158)
- Grey Fantail (134)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (130)
- Brown Gerygone (114)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (109)
- Superb Fairy-wren (100)
- Australian Magpie (94)
- Pied Butcherbird (92)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Yessabah
- Willie Wagtail (92)
- Red-browed Finch (88)
- Satin Bowerbird (80)
- White-headed Pigeon (80)
- Rufous Whistler (73)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (68)
- Australian King-parrot (67)
- Welcome Swallow (66)
- Dollarbird (64)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (59)
- Pheasant Coucal (58)
- Scarlet Honeyeater (57)
- Spangled Drongo (57)
- Brown Thornbill (55)
- White-throated Treecreeper (54)
- Channel-billed Cuckoo (52)
- Pacific Black Duck (52)
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 Yessabah:
- Sherwood (4.1 km)
- Mooneba (5.9 km)
- Wittitrin (6.5 km)
- Turners Flat (6.8 km)
- Dondingalong (8.1 km)
- Aldavilla (8.1 km)
- Yarravel (9.7 km)
- Skillion Flat (10.1 km)
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Streets
- Callen-brae Lane (5)
- Clarkes Road (8)
- Commong Lane (5)
- Dungay Creek Road (24)
- Gowings Hill Road (2)
- Kullatine Drive (2)
- Old Rollands Plains Road (1)
- Ribbes Access (3)
- Yessabah Road (15)
