Broken Creek VIC 3673
16 addresses · 9 streets
Indi Electorate › Benalla LGA › Broken Creek · 174 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Broken Creek is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 45 people, with a median age of 59. The typical household earns around $1,625 a week, with median rent near $70 a week. Most homes are houses. About 82% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers work from home. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. 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 Benalla Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Broken Creek itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
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: 4.8% 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 | 4.8% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 9.4% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.4% · Labour-force participation 74.4%
Population by age in Broken Creek
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 3 |
| 15-19 | 3 |
| 20-24 | 10 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 6 |
| 55-64 | 14 |
| 65-74 | 9 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Broken Creek
| House | 15 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Broken Creek
| <$650 | 6 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 8 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 3 |
Top ancestries in Broken Creek
| English | 21 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 15 |
| Irish | 14 |
| Scottish | 8 |
| Ancestry NS | 5 |
| Dutch | 3 |
Housing tenure in Broken Creek
| Owned | 14 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 3 |
Cars per household in Broken Creek
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Broken Creek
| Car | 9 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 3 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 14 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
926 bird observations recorded near Broken Creek — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (55)
- Galah (46)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (45)
- Common Starling (43)
- Magpie-lark (43)
- Crested Pigeon (40)
- Australian Wood Duck (39)
- Red-rumped Parrot (38)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (37)
- Eastern Rosella (36)
- Welcome Swallow (36)
- Willie Wagtail (36)
- Noisy Miner (30)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Broken Creek
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (29)
- House Sparrow (29)
- Laughing Kookaburra (27)
- Red Wattlebird (25)
- Superb Fairy-wren (25)
- White-winged Chough (25)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (24)
- Nankeen Kestrel (24)
- Pacific Black Duck (24)
- White-faced Heron (24)
- Australian Raven (22)
- Straw-necked Ibis (22)
- Little Pied Cormorant (21)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (21)
- Australian White Ibis (20)
- Dusky Moorhen (20)
- Eastern White-plumed Honeyeater (20)
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 Broken Creek:
- Goorambat (4.8 km)
- Goomalibee (5.6 km)
- Stewarton (8.1 km)
- Tarnook (11.3 km)
- Devenish (11.4 km)
- Upotipotpon (12.4 km)
- Major Plains (13.3 km)
- Bungeet West (14.2 km)
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Streets
- Dicker Road (1)
- Goorambat-dookie College Road (1)
- Midland Highway (2)
- Paolini Lane (3)
- Quinn Road (5)
- Sharp Road (1)
- Tarnook Road (1)
- Trask Road (1)
- Wallace Road (1)
