Butchers Ridge VIC 3885
26 addresses · 6 streets
Gippsland Electorate › East Gippsland LGA › Butchers Ridge · 297 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Butchers Ridge is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 7 people, with a median age of 33. The typical household earns around $900 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 0% rent. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Aboriginal, Chinese. 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 Orbost statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Butchers Ridge itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 service station
1 place to stay
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: 33.3% 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 | 33.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 42.1% |
Demographics
Population by age in Butchers Ridge
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 3 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Butchers Ridge
| House | 7 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Butchers Ridge
| Australian | 7 |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
| English | 0 |
Housing tenure in Butchers Ridge
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 5 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,245 bird observations recorded near Butchers Ridge — most often seen:
- Grey Shrike-thrush (101)
- Superb Lyrebird (97)
- Superb Fairy-wren (92)
- Bassian Thrush (76)
- White-browed Scrubwren (65)
- Laughing Kookaburra (62)
- Pied Currawong (58)
- Australian Magpie (56)
- Crimson Rosella (46)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (38)
- Brown Thornbill (37)
- Welcome Swallow (36)
- Magpie-lark (32)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Butchers Ridge
- White-eared Honeyeater (32)
- Red Wattlebird (31)
- White-throated Treecreeper (31)
- White-naped Honeyeater (30)
- House Sparrow (29)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (28)
- Grey Fantail (28)
- White-winged Chough (27)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (27)
- Pilotbird (26)
- Scarlet Robin (25)
- Spotted Quail-thrush (25)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (25)
- Willie Wagtail (24)
- Rufous Whistler (23)
- Australian Raven (19)
- European Goldfinch (19)
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 Butchers Ridge:
- Gelantipy (7.3 km)
- W Tree (9.2 km)
- Wulgulmerang West (11.2 km)
- Murrindal (18.3 km)
- Wulgulmerang East (18.6 km)
- Buchan (25.5 km)
- Wulgulmerang (26.1 km)
- Nunniong (26.7 km)
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Streets
- Bates Road (3)
- Gelantipy Road (11)
- Gillies Road (7)
- Glen Shiel Road (1)
- Tulloch Ard Road (1)
- Westphal Road (3)
