Barnawartha VIC 3688
537 addresses · 59 streets
Indi Electorate › Indigo LGA › Barnawartha · 244 km from Melbourne
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Living Here
Barnawartha is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 987 people, with a median age of 40. The typical household earns around $1,742 a week, with median rent near $293 a week. Most homes are houses. About 92% of households own their home and 8% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. 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 Chiltern - Indigo Valley statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Barnawartha itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 park
1 Catholic church
2 golf clubs
Getting around. Train station: Chiltern, 8.1 km south-west · Airport: Albury Airport, 26.2 km east.
Sport & Recreation
3 facilities recorded in Barnawartha.
- Barnawartha Golf Club Golf
- Barnawartha Loop Cycling
- Barnawartha recreation reserve Australian Rules Football, Cricket
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: 11.5% 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 | 11.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 17.8% |
Demographics
Unemployment 2.8% · Labour-force participation 68.4%
Population by age in Barnawartha
| 0-4 | 75 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 128 |
| 15-19 | 64 |
| 20-24 | 42 |
| 25-34 | 128 |
| 35-44 | 128 |
| 45-54 | 139 |
| 55-64 | 149 |
| 65-74 | 92 |
| 75-84 | 36 |
| 85+ | 3 |
Dwelling types in Barnawartha
| House | 337 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 15 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 3 |
Households by weekly income in Barnawartha
| <$650 | 32 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 100 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 153 |
| $3,000+ | 48 |
Top ancestries in Barnawartha
| Australian | 469 |
|---|---|
| English | 436 |
| Irish | 120 |
| Scottish | 88 |
| Ancestry NS | 82 |
| German | 62 |
Housing tenure in Barnawartha
| Owned | 124 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 198 |
| Rented | 28 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Barnawartha
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 57 |
| 2 | 164 |
| 3 | 72 |
| 4+ | 52 |
Commute to work in Barnawartha
| Car | 378 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 13 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 58 |
Top countries of birth in Barnawartha
| England | 25 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 10 |
| Germany | 4 |
| India | 4 |
Languages used at home in Barnawartha
| Italian | 6 |
|---|---|
| Hindi | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
21,062 bird observations recorded near Barnawartha — most often seen:
- Fuscous Honeyeater (1,315)
- Australian Magpie (1,137)
- Yellow-tufted Honeyeater (1,132)
- Red Wattlebird (1,081)
- Regent Honeyeater (912)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (847)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (832)
- Willie Wagtail (803)
- Noisy Miner (713)
- Eastern Rosella (710)
- Southern Fuscous Honeyeater (684)
- Australian Raven (681)
- Superb Fairy-wren (681)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Barnawartha
- Eastern Red Wattlebird (680)
- Dusky Woodswallow (651)
- White-naped Honeyeater (648)
- White-winged Chough (588)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (581)
- Striated Pardalote (570)
- Swift Parrot (556)
- Brown-headed Honeyeater (553)
- Western Yellow-tufted Honeyeater (553)
- Noisy Friarbird (545)
- Black-chinned Honeyeater (533)
- Restless Flycatcher (533)
- Welcome Swallow (533)
- Galah (521)
- Grey Fantail (502)
- Magpie-lark (497)
- Brown Treecreeper (490)
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 Barnawartha:
- Barnawartha North (6.3 km)
- Browns Plains (7.4 km)
- Chiltern (8.7 km)
- Cornishtown (9.3 km)
- Indigo Valley (11.3 km)
- Chiltern Valley (11.7 km)
- Gooramadda (14.3 km)
- West Wodonga (16.4 km)
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Streets
- Annika Place (26)
- Barnawartha-howlong Road (34)
- Baxter-whelans Road (4)
- Bay Road (3)
- Bill Tanners Road (6)
- Burrows Street (1)
- Canning Street (15)
- Cemetery Road (7)
- Chiltern-barnawartha Road (27)
- Chiltern-howlong Road (2)
- Coyles Road (1)
- Crosses Road (3)
- Eames Road (3)
- Eckhoffs Road (1)
- Elliot Road (12)
- Fallon Lane (1)
- Fishers Road (10)
- Goldstone Way (9)
- Grassland Drive (12)
- Harkins Road (2)
- Harvey Lane (1)
- Havelock Street (34)
- Hermitage Road (1)
- High Street (67)
- Indigo Creek Road (1)
- Indigo Drive (18)
- Lades Road (1)
- Lady Franklin Road (1)
- Lansdowne Street (11)
- Laurie Lane (2)
- Lefoe Road (2)
- Magenta Road (2)
- Mckeone Road (3)
- Mildrens Road (4)
- Mt Franklin Road (1)
- Mucha Road (2)
- Murray Valley Highway (3)
- Neil Street (6)
- Palmers Road (19)
- Palmerston Street (15)
- Plunketts Road (1)
- Rileys Road (10)
- Ryans Access Road (2)
- Schlue Court (6)
- Soldiers Road (17)
- Stanhope Street (16)
- Stanhope Street S (1)
- Stanley Street (31)
- Station Street (3)
- Stewarts Road (1)
- Tara Drive (8)
- Taylor Street (2)
- Thompsons Lane (2)
- Tom Tanners Road (1)
- White Street (2)
- Whitehead Court (15)
- Williams Road (23)
- Wilson Place (11)
- Woodrush Court (12)
