Dean VIC 3363
85 addresses · 15 streets
Ballarat Electorate › Hepburn LGA › Dean · 95 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Dean is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 132 people, with a median age of 38. The typical household earns around $1,449 a week, with median rent near $260 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Creswick - Clunes statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Dean itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 Catholic church
1 hospital
1 golf club
1 carpenter
Getting around. Train station: Creswick, 9.3 km north-west.
Sport & Recreation
1 facility recorded in Dean.
- Dean Recreation Reserve Soccer, Tennis (Outdoor)
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: 12.2% 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 | 12.2% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 22.2% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.1% · Labour-force participation 67%
Population by age in Dean
| 0-4 | 11 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 25 |
| 15-19 | 9 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 9 |
| 35-44 | 17 |
| 45-54 | 18 |
| 55-64 | 17 |
| 65-74 | 16 |
| 75-84 | 6 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Dean
| House | 42 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Dean
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 15 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 8 |
| $3,000+ | 5 |
Top ancestries in Dean
| English | 57 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 51 |
| Scottish | 21 |
| Irish | 19 |
| German | 10 |
| Ancestry NS | 7 |
Housing tenure in Dean
| Owned | 15 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 22 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Dean
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 12 |
| 3 | 11 |
| 4+ | 9 |
Commute to work in Dean
| Car | 43 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 4 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 11 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,411 bird observations recorded near Dean — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (74)
- Pacific Black Duck (72)
- Eurasian Blackbird (71)
- Black Swan (70)
- Common Starling (70)
- Eurasian Coot (70)
- Little Raven (67)
- Superb Fairy-wren (67)
- Crimson Rosella (58)
- House Sparrow (54)
- Little Pied Cormorant (54)
- Brown Thornbill (47)
- Southern Victoria Australian Magpie (44)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Dean
- Laughing Kookaburra (42)
- Australian Shelduck (41)
- White-faced Heron (40)
- White-naped Honeyeater (40)
- Australian Wood Duck (39)
- Magpie-lark (38)
- Grey Fantail (37)
- Northern Superb Fairy-wren (37)
- European Goldfinch (35)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (34)
- Long-billed Corella (31)
- South-eastern Crimson Rosella (31)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (31)
- Hoary-headed Grebe (30)
- South-eastern Brown Thornbill (29)
- White-browed Scrubwren (29)
- White-throated Treecreeper (29)
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 Dean:
- Wattle Flat (3.9 km)
- Clarkes Hill (4.2 km)
- Mollongghip (5.2 km)
- Newlyn (5.2 km)
- Bullarook (6.4 km)
- Rocklyn (6.6 km)
- Springmount (6.8 km)
- Newlyn North (7 km)
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Streets
- Adekate Camp Road (2)
- Ballarat-daylesford Road (21)
- Blampied-mollongghip Road (2)
- Bowens Lane (3)
- Clarkes Hill Road (1)
- Creswick-dean Road (10)
- Dean Reservoir Road (6)
- Dean-mollongghip Road (9)
- Dean-newlyn Road (12)
- Martins Road (4)
- Myers Road (4)
- Pattersons Lane (1)
- Reservoir Road (1)
- Smiths Road (3)
- Wattle Flat Road (6)
