Badger Creek VIC 3777

Living Here

Badger Creek is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 1,610 people, with a median age of 43. The typical household earns around $1,481 a week, with median rent near $323 a week. Most homes are houses. About 89% of households own their home and 10% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area. The median house sells for about $650,500.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Healesville - Yarra Glen statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Badger Creek itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 5 schools

  • Badger Creek Primary School
  • Worawa Aboriginal College
  • St Brigid's Primary School
  • Healesville Primary School
  • Healesville High School
• 2 cafés & restaurants

  • Sanctuary Harvest Café
  • Sanctuary House Restaurant
• 2 parks

  • Roma Reserve
  • Healesville Showgrounds and Sporting Complex
• 1 hospital

  • Healesville & District Hospital
• 1 vet

  • Healesville Veterinary Clinic
• 3 service stations

  • 7-Eleven
  • BP
  • Shell
• 1 gym

  • Healesville Outdoor Pool
• 2 golf clubs

  • RACV Healsville Country Club - Four-hole Short Course
  • RACV Healesville Country Club
• 2 butchers

  • Kitchen & Butcher
  • Yarra Valley Quality Meat Supply
• 7 places to stay

  • Yarra Valley Parklane Caravan Park
  • Healesville Tourist Park
  • Sanctuary House Resort Motel
  • Lavender Farm
  • Yarra Gables Motel
  • Healesville Maroondah View
  • RACV Healesville Country Club

Getting around. Airport: Moorabbin Airport, 50.7 km south-west.

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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.

Median Sale Prices

Median of recorded sales in the period, not a valuation. Source: Victorian Property Sales Report, Land Use Victoria.

Tree cover

🌳 Tree canopy: 44.4% 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 2.9% · Labour-force participation 60%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

38,266 bird observations recorded near Badger Creek — most often seen:

• Crimson Rosella (1,940)
• Australian White Ibis (1,919)
• Superb Fairy-wren (1,913)
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (1,894)
• Australian Magpie (1,886)
• Laughing Kookaburra (1,620)
• Red Wattlebird (1,617)
• Common Bronzewing (1,578)
• Eurasian Blackbird (1,562)
• Grey Fantail (1,483)
• Pied Currawong (1,450)
• Brown Thornbill (1,411)
• Australian King-parrot (1,336)

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 Badger Creek:

• Healesville (3.6 km)
• Mount Toolebewong (4.6 km)
• Don Valley (8 km)
• Chum Creek (8.1 km)
• Gruyere (9.4 km)
• Tarrawarra (9.5 km)
• Woori Yallock (10.7 km)
• Seville East (10.9 km)

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