Illowa VIC 3282

Living Here

Illowa is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 304 people, with a median age of 47. The typical household earns around $2,083 a week, with median rent near $380 a week. Most homes are houses. About 90% of households own their home and 3% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 9 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Moyne - West statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Illowa itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 3 schools

  • St Patrick's Primary School
  • St John's Primary School
  • Koroit and District Primary School
• 2 hospitals

  • St John of God Warrnambool Hospital
  • Warrnambool Base Hospital
• 1 golf club

  • Warrnambool Golf Club
• 1 hardware store

  • Murray Goulburn Farm and Hardware Supplies
• 4 places to stay

  • Koroit-Tower Hill Caravan Park
  • Olde Courthouse Inn
  • Mickey Bourke's Koroit Hotel
  • The Bank Koroit

Getting around. Train station: Warrnambool Railway Station, 9.1 km south-east · Airport: Warrnambool Airport, 5.7 km north-east.

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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: 2.2% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 2.6% · Labour-force participation 62.5%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

29,105 bird observations recorded near Illowa — most often seen:

• Black Swan (2,263)
• Australasian Purple Swamphen (1,608)
• Australian Shelduck (1,559)
• Pacific Black Duck (1,518)
• Emu (1,446)
• Chestnut Teal (1,398)
• Hoary-headed Grebe (1,250)
• Superb Fairy-wren (1,137)
• White-faced Heron (1,071)
• Eurasian Coot (1,067)
• Grey Teal (1,028)
• Australian Magpie (989)
• Grey Fantail (989)

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 Illowa:

• Tower Hill (3.4 km)
• Yangery (3.6 km)
• Southern Cross (3.8 km)
• Koroit (4.9 km)
• Dennington (5 km)
• Yarpturk (5.4 km)
• Crossley (6.3 km)
• Killarney (7.4 km)

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