Dookie VIC 3646
253 addresses · 35 streets
Nicholls Electorate › Greater Shepparton LGA › Dookie · 177 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Dookie is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 333 people, with a median age of 48. The typical household earns around $1,317 a week, with median rent near $210 a week. Most homes are houses. About 86% of households own their home and 11% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Scottish. 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 Shepparton Region - East statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Dookie itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 café or restaurant
1 post office
1 gym
1 golf club
Getting around. Airport: Shepparton Airport, 29.1 km south-west.
Sport & Recreation
2 facilities recorded in Dookie.
- Dookie Bowls Club Lawn Bowls
- Dookie Recreation Reserve Australian Rules Football, Cricket, Netball, 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: 3.3% 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 | 3.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 3.4% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.1% · Labour-force participation 60.6%
Population by age in Dookie
| 0-4 | 9 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 54 |
| 15-19 | 27 |
| 20-24 | 11 |
| 25-34 | 20 |
| 35-44 | 35 |
| 45-54 | 51 |
| 55-64 | 61 |
| 65-74 | 39 |
| 75-84 | 22 |
| 85+ | 3 |
Dwelling types in Dookie
| House | 133 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Dookie
| <$650 | 35 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 53 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 36 |
| $3,000+ | 15 |
Top ancestries in Dookie
| Australian | 138 |
|---|---|
| English | 138 |
| Scottish | 57 |
| Irish | 52 |
| Ancestry NS | 26 |
| German | 18 |
Housing tenure in Dookie
| Owned | 57 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 50 |
| Rented | 14 |
| Other | 4 |
Cars per household in Dookie
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 33 |
| 2 | 51 |
| 3 | 23 |
| 4+ | 17 |
Commute to work in Dookie
| Car | 100 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 3 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 31 |
Top countries of birth in Dookie
| England | 5 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 5 |
| Ireland | 3 |
| Scotland | 3 |
Languages used at home in Dookie
| Italian | 3 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
2,845 bird observations recorded near Dookie — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (190)
- House Sparrow (187)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (187)
- Willie Wagtail (162)
- Galah (141)
- Eastern Rosella (132)
- Common Starling (125)
- Crested Pigeon (121)
- Eurasian Blackbird (114)
- Welcome Swallow (113)
- Common Myna (112)
- Australian Raven (107)
- Red Wattlebird (106)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Dookie
- Red-rumped Parrot (100)
- Magpie-lark (86)
- Brown Falcon (82)
- Little Raven (77)
- Nankeen Kestrel (73)
- Striated Pardalote (59)
- Superb Fairy-wren (59)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (56)
- Eastern White-plumed Honeyeater (55)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (54)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (54)
- Laughing Kookaburra (54)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (52)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (50)
- White-browed Woodswallow (47)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (45)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (45)
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 Dookie:
- Mount Major (3.7 km)
- Yabba South (4.8 km)
- Cosgrove (6.4 km)
- Dookie College (6.8 km)
- Major Plains (8.6 km)
- Boxwood (9.8 km)
- Cosgrove South (10.7 km)
- Yabba North (11.2 km)
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Streets
- Baldock Street (15)
- Boxwood Road (3)
- Cashel Bank Road (1)
- Cashel Road (5)
- Chateau Road (2)
- Conway Road (1)
- Curtain Street (6)
- Dookie Nalinga Road (1)
- Dookie Street (24)
- Dookie-devenish Road (7)
- Dookie-gowangardie Road (3)
- Dookie-nalinga Road (5)
- Dookie-st James Road (8)
- Forer Street (5)
- Gladstone Street (5)
- Hoopers Road (6)
- Kellows Road (1)
- Marie Street (2)
- Mary Street (28)
- Mcdonald Road (3)
- Mcdonald Street (11)
- Murphy Road (1)
- New Dookie Road (3)
- Nixon Street (2)
- Polan Road (2)
- Proctors Road (4)
- Quarry-dookie Road (9)
- Queen Street (34)
- Ryans Road (5)
- Saddleback Road (3)
- Shepparton Street (10)
- Tungamah Boundary Road (6)
- Turnley Street (4)
- Williamson Street (26)
- Wrens Quarry Road (2)
