Fish Creek VIC 3959
704 addresses · 70 streets
Monash Electorate › South Gippsland LGA › Fish Creek · 140 km from Melbourne
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Living Here
Fish Creek is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 858 people, with a median age of 51. The typical household earns around $1,281 a week, with median rent near $235 a week. Most homes are houses. About 83% of households own their home and 12% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, 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 Foster statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Fish Creek itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
1 post office
1 service station
Sport & Recreation
3 facilities recorded in Fish Creek.
- Buckley Park Cricket
- Fish Creek Tennis Tennis (Indoor)
- Terrill Park Australian Rules Football, Cricket, Lawn Bowls, 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: 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 | 22.7% |
Demographics
Unemployment 1.7% · Labour-force participation 56.6%
Population by age in Fish Creek
| 0-4 | 25 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 119 |
| 15-19 | 47 |
| 20-24 | 38 |
| 25-34 | 48 |
| 35-44 | 93 |
| 45-54 | 113 |
| 55-64 | 131 |
| 65-74 | 151 |
| 75-84 | 83 |
| 85+ | 13 |
Dwelling types in Fish Creek
| House | 331 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Fish Creek
| <$650 | 63 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 109 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 87 |
| $3,000+ | 52 |
Top ancestries in Fish Creek
| English | 376 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 321 |
| Irish | 145 |
| Scottish | 107 |
| Ancestry NS | 65 |
| Dutch | 54 |
Housing tenure in Fish Creek
| Owned | 184 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 83 |
| Rented | 37 |
| Other | 17 |
Cars per household in Fish Creek
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 94 |
| 2 | 139 |
| 3 | 56 |
| 4+ | 33 |
Commute to work in Fish Creek
| Car | 195 |
|---|---|
| Train | 4 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 22 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 110 |
Top countries of birth in Fish Creek
| England | 26 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 10 |
| Scotland | 10 |
| Italy | 7 |
| Netherlands | 6 |
| South Africa | 6 |
Languages used at home in Fish Creek
| German | 11 |
|---|---|
| Italian | 6 |
| Afrikaans | 4 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
2,498 bird observations recorded near Fish Creek — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (205)
- Eurasian Blackbird (169)
- Grey Fantail (140)
- Common Starling (132)
- Crimson Rosella (129)
- Brown Thornbill (119)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (111)
- Superb Fairy-wren (98)
- Welcome Swallow (92)
- Little Raven (81)
- White-browed Scrubwren (79)
- Red Wattlebird (77)
- Wedge-tailed Eagle (77)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Fish Creek
- Australian Raven (73)
- Magpie-lark (73)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (69)
- Common Myna (66)
- Australian Wood Duck (65)
- European Goldfinch (63)
- Galah (63)
- Grey Butcherbird (59)
- Silvereye (56)
- Laughing Kookaburra (55)
- Little Corella (54)
- Pacific Black Duck (54)
- Little Wattlebird (52)
- Pacific Gull (52)
- White-faced Heron (48)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (44)
- Eastern Spinebill (43)
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 Fish Creek:
- Buffalo (7.9 km)
- Waratah Bay (11.1 km)
- Foster (11.8 km)
- Sandy Point (12.8 km)
- Foster North (13.4 km)
- Stony Creek (13.7 km)
- Walkerville (14.5 km)
- Yanakie (14.7 km)
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Streets
- Baths Road (2)
- Beards Road (4)
- Bills Road (2)
- Boys Road (7)
- Brown Street (1)
- Buffalo-waratah Road (1)
- Byrnes Lane (7)
- Carnegies Road (4)
- Chalmers Road (2)
- Cooks Road (5)
- Cooks Road W (3)
- Cornwalls Road (12)
- Cottmans Road (3)
- Dancocks Road (1)
- Duncans Road (2)
- Eastaways Road (4)
- Evans Road (6)
- Falls Road (65)
- Farrell Lane (1)
- Fish Creek Quarry Road (6)
- Fish Creek-foster Road (15)
- Fish Creek-walkerville Road (10)
- Foster Road (11)
- Foster-promontory Road (7)
- Gillick Road (3)
- Glenann Road (2)
- Griffins Road (2)
- Harding Lawson Road (40)
- Hedgeley Dene Court (5)
- Hoddle Settlement Road (3)
- Keanes Road (6)
- Kennedys Road (2)
- Kerrs Road (14)
- Larkin Road (4)
- Leggetts Road (2)
- Lorimer Street (13)
- Lowrys Road (20)
- Lynes Road (2)
- Mackins Road (18)
- Mackins Road E (1)
- Mathers Road (22)
- Mathers Road E (4)
- Mccartneys Road (2)
- Meeniyan-promontory Road (66)
- Meikle Road (26)
- Mount Nicoll Road (12)
- Ogradys Ridge Road (2)
- Old Fish Creek-yanakie Road (9)
- Old Waratah Road (66)
- Pilkington Road (4)
- Ray Road (5)
- Ryan Street (3)
- Samman Road (15)
- Savages Road (24)
- Sheedy Road (4)
- Shields Road (6)
- Soldiers Road (18)
- Stamp Road (2)
- Stewarts Road (13)
- Summers Road (3)
- Synan Road (3)
- Taylor Court (3)
- Thomson Road (4)
- Vuillermins Lane (1)
- Vuillermins Road (1)
- Wallis Ridge Road (3)
- Waratah Road (43)
- Williamson Street (17)
- Wirilda Way (3)
- Worfolks Road (2)
