Gowar East VIC 3477
23 addresses · 13 streets
Mallee Electorate › Northern Grampians LGA › Gowar East · 198 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Gowar East is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 23 people, with a median age of 64. The typical household earns around $949 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers work from home. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Ancestry NS. 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 St Arnaud statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Gowar East itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
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: 2.4% 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 | 2.4% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 7.3% |
Demographics
Population by age in Gowar East
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 5 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 6 |
| 65-74 | 8 |
| 75-84 | 4 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Gowar East
| House | 9 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Gowar East
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 3 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Gowar East
| Australian | 11 |
|---|---|
| English | 11 |
| Ancestry NS | 5 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Gowar East
| Owned | 8 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Gowar East
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 7 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Gowar East
| Car | 4 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 9 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
403 bird observations recorded near Gowar East — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (23)
- Galah (21)
- Long-billed Corella (21)
- Willie Wagtail (19)
- Eastern Rosella (16)
- Laughing Kookaburra (16)
- Welcome Swallow (16)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (16)
- Australian Raven (15)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (14)
- Noisy Miner (14)
- Red Wattlebird (14)
- Red-rumped Parrot (13)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Gowar East
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (13)
- Brown Treecreeper (12)
- Eastern Galah (12)
- Eastern White-plumed Honeyeater (12)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (12)
- Dusky Woodswallow (11)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (11)
- Eastern Red Wattlebird (11)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (11)
- White-faced Heron (11)
- Australian Wood Duck (10)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (10)
- Magpie-lark (10)
- North-eastern Brown Treecreeper (10)
- Striated Pardalote (10)
- Superb Fairy-wren (10)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (9)
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 Gowar East:
- Yawong Hills (7.9 km)
- Slaty Creek (8.8 km)
- Berrimal (9.1 km)
- Kooreh (9.9 km)
- St Arnaud East (10.3 km)
- Coonooer Bridge (11.4 km)
- Logan (12.5 km)
- St Arnaud (13.7 km)
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Streets
- Coonooer-gowar Road (2)
- Freeman Road (1)
- Gowar-berrimal Road (1)
- Gowar-logan Road (1)
- Hewitt Road (1)
- Mccahon Road (1)
- Old St Arnaud Road (3)
- Pearse Road (1)
- Pole Road (2)
- Rourke Road (3)
- Vogel Road (2)
- Wedderburn Road (3)
- Yawong Springs Road (2)
