Joyces Creek VIC 3364
30 addresses · 8 streets
Bendigo Electorate › Mount Alexander LGA › Joyces Creek · 119 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Joyces Creek is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 20 people, with a median age of 56. The typical household earns around $1,187 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Scottish. 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: Joyces Creek itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
1 place to stay
Getting around. Airport: Bendigo Airport, 49.2 km north-east.
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: 15.7% 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 | 15.7% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 20.4% |
Demographics
Population by age in Joyces Creek
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 4 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 4 |
| 55-64 | 5 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 3 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Joyces Creek
| House | 9 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Joyces Creek
| Australian | 9 |
|---|---|
| English | 4 |
| Scottish | 4 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Joyces Creek
| Owned | 5 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 3 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Joyces Creek
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Joyces Creek
| Car | 9 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
7,661 bird observations recorded near Joyces Creek — most often seen:
- Long-billed Corella (421)
- Australian Magpie (412)
- Superb Fairy-wren (332)
- Galah (313)
- Whistling Kite (303)
- Little Raven (302)
- Welcome Swallow (296)
- White-faced Heron (288)
- Willie Wagtail (287)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (285)
- Northern Superb Fairy-wren (270)
- Red-rumped Parrot (270)
- House Sparrow (268)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Joyces Creek
- Australian Shelduck (260)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (258)
- Eastern Galah (245)
- Magpie-lark (245)
- Red Wattlebird (227)
- Eastern Red Wattlebird (222)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (213)
- Pacific Black Duck (208)
- Masked Lapwing (204)
- South-eastern Red-rumped Parrot (204)
- Brown Falcon (198)
- Australian Wood Duck (197)
- Eastern White-plumed Honeyeater (197)
- Common Myna (187)
- Eurasian Blackbird (185)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (184)
- Eastern Grey Shrike-thrush (180)
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 Joyces Creek:
- Welshmans Reef (4.7 km)
- Moolort (5.2 km)
- Strathlea (7.5 km)
- Newstead (7.9 km)
- Cotswold (10 km)
- Tarrengower (10 km)
- Green Gully (11 km)
- Sandon (11.3 km)
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Streets
- Annands Lane (2)
- Annands Track (1)
- Hall Road (1)
- Joyces Creek-baringhup Road (11)
- Pyrenees Highway (3)
- Rodborough Road (6)
- Shiells Lane (3)
- Strathlea Road (3)
