Birdwoodton VIC 3505

Living Here

Birdwoodton is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 748 people, with a median age of 39. The typical household earns around $1,784 a week, with median rent near $300 a week. Most homes are houses. About 90% of households own their home and 8% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 6 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Merbein statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Birdwoodton itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 3 schools

  • The Lake Primary School
  • Merbein P–10 College
  • Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Primary School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Breakfast with Birds
• 1 supermarket

  • Ritchies IGA
• 1 park

  • Chaffey Park
• 2 Catholic churches

  • Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church
  • Sacred Heart Catholic Church
• 2 hospitals

  • Mildura Base Public Hospital
  • Mildura Health Private Hospital
• 1 library

  • Merbein Library
• 1 post office

  • Merbein LPO
• 1 service station

  • Shell
• 2 golf clubs

  • Merbein Golf Course
  • Mildura Golf Resort
• 1 butcher

  • McGinty's Merbein Butchery
• 1 hardware store

  • Sydney Tools
• 1 mechanic

  • MJM Automotive
• 4 places to stay

  • Merbein Caravan Park
  • Sunrasia Holiday Park
  • Sun Siesta Caravan Park
  • BIG4 NRMA Mildura Riverside Holiday Park

Getting around. Bus interchange: Mildura Railway Station, 8.5 km east · Airport: Mildura Airport, 4.2 km south.

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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: 3.6% 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 3.4% · Labour-force participation 61%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

12,209 bird observations recorded near Birdwoodton — most often seen:

• Grey Teal (843)
• Crested Pigeon (624)
• Magpie-lark (624)
• Pacific Black Duck (610)
• Black Swan (571)
• Welcome Swallow (523)
• Australian Shelduck (518)
• Singing Honeyeater (489)
• Noisy Miner (433)
• House Sparrow (421)
• Silver Gull (420)
• Eurasian Coot (414)
• Red-capped Plover (414)

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 Birdwoodton:

• Cabarita (1.8 km)
• Merbein (3.1 km)
• Merbein South (4.1 km)
• Merbein West (6.4 km)
• Mildura (6.7 km)
• Yelta (8.6 km)
• Koorlong (9.6 km)
• Irymple (10.2 km)

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