Zara NSW 2484

Living Here

Zara is a suburb of New South Wales, home to about 87 people, with a median age of 45. The typical household earns around $1,625 a week, with median rent near $440 a week. Most homes are houses. About 78% of households own their home and 22% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 2 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: Zara itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Chillingham Public School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • The Chillingham Store
• 1 park

  • Jack Connolly & Johnny Brims Park
• 1 hospital

  • Murwillumbah Hospital
• 1 childcare centre

  • Chillingham Community Preschool

Getting around. Airport: Gold Coast Airport, 29.7 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: 62.9% 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 11.1% · Labour-force participation 52.9%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

10,075 bird observations recorded near Zara — most often seen:

• Southern Lewin's Honeyeater (752)
• Northern Brown Thornbill (601)
• Eastern Brown Honeyeater (578)
• Southern Noisy Friarbird (491)
• Green Figbird (478)
• Southern Laughing Kookaburra (458)
• White-headed Pigeon (400)
• Eastern Rainbow Lorikeet (396)
• South-east Eastern Whipbird (382)
• North-eastern Yellow Robin (377)
• Birds (345)
• Scarlet Honeyeater (333)
• Eastern Pied Currawong (320)

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 Zara:

• Chillingham (2.4 km)
• Hopkins Creek (3.4 km)
• Limpinwood (3.7 km)
• Numinbah (4.9 km)
• Crystal Creek (6 km)
• Eungella (6.2 km)
• Tyalgum (6.3 km)
• Upper Crystal Creek (6.4 km)

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