Faraday VIC 3451

Living Here

Faraday is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 194 people, with a median age of 50. The typical household earns around $1,339 a week, with median rent near $315 a week. Most homes are houses. About 89% of households own their home and 11% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

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

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Chewton Primary School
• 1 Catholic church

  • St. Marys
• 2 hospitals

  • Mt Alexander Hospital
  • Castlemaine Health
• 1 golf club

  • Mount Alexander Golf Club
• 3 plumbers

  • Camerons
  • Max Smith
  • Fasom
• 1 place to stay

  • The Albion Motel Castlemaine

Getting around. Train station: Castlemaine, 7.4 km west · Airport: Bendigo Airport, 35.3 km north.

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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: 15.1% 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 1% · Labour-force participation 56.4%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

6,938 bird observations recorded near Faraday — most often seen:

• Australian Magpie (363)
• Crimson Rosella (338)
• Superb Fairy-wren (329)
• South-eastern Crimson Rosella (327)
• Eastern Australian Magpie (307)
• Long-billed Corella (296)
• South-eastern Yellow-faced Honeyeater (275)
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (273)
• Northern Superb Fairy-wren (257)
• Coastal Spotted Pardalote (254)
• Yellow-faced Honeyeater (253)
• Tasmanian Grey Fantail (250)
• Red Wattlebird (249)

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 Faraday:

• Golden Point (2.5 km)
• Chewton Bushlands (2.9 km)
• Chewton (4.9 km)
• Moonlight Flat (4.9 km)
• Elphinstone (6.2 km)
• Barkers Creek (6.6 km)
• Harcourt (6.7 km)
• Castlemaine (7.2 km)

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