Kariah VIC 3260
38 addresses · 10 streets
Wannon Electorate › Corangamite LGA › Kariah · 157 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Kariah is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 94 people, with a median age of 45. The typical household earns around $1,875 a week, with median rent near $163 a week. Most homes are houses. About 66% of households own their home and 13% rent. Most workers work from home. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, 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 Corangamite - North statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Kariah itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
Getting around. Train station: Camperdown, 11.5 km south-west · Airport: Colac Airport, 43.4 km 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: 2.5% 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 | 2.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 1.9% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.6% · Labour-force participation 72.7%
Population by age in Kariah
| 0-4 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 16 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 5 |
| 35-44 | 11 |
| 45-54 | 11 |
| 55-64 | 10 |
| 65-74 | 20 |
| 75-84 | 5 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Kariah
| House | 36 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Kariah
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 9 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 15 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Kariah
| English | 39 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 37 |
| Scottish | 20 |
| Irish | 14 |
| German | 8 |
| Other | 8 |
Housing tenure in Kariah
| Owned | 17 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 4 |
| Rented | 4 |
| Other | 7 |
Cars per household in Kariah
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 13 |
| 3 | 7 |
| 4+ | 10 |
Commute to work in Kariah
| Car | 9 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 4 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 32 |
Languages used at home in Kariah
| Russian | 4 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,777 bird observations recorded near Kariah — most often seen:
- Black Swan (150)
- Australian Shelduck (134)
- Masked Lapwing (126)
- Grey Teal (124)
- Eurasian Coot (108)
- Chestnut Teal (104)
- Australasian Shoveler (89)
- Hoary-headed Grebe (89)
- Silver Gull (89)
- Musk Duck (75)
- Pink-eared Duck (74)
- Brolga (61)
- Red-capped Plover (61)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Kariah
- White-faced Heron (59)
- Pacific Black Duck (52)
- Great Crested Grebe (41)
- Blue-billed Duck (39)
- Australian Pelican (38)
- Hardhead (32)
- Eurasian Skylark (30)
- Little Raven (30)
- Red-necked Stint (29)
- Australian Magpie (23)
- Straw-necked Ibis (21)
- Whiskered Tern (18)
- Australian White Ibis (17)
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill (17)
- Little Pied Cormorant (16)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (16)
- Common Starling (15)
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 Kariah:
- Chocolyn (6.7 km)
- Bookaar (9.4 km)
- Skibo (11.2 km)
- Larralea (11.3 km)
- Weerite (11.4 km)
- Leslie Manor (11.5 km)
- Camperdown (12.3 km)
- Gnotuk (12.7 km)
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Streets
- Camperdown-lismore Road (10)
- Chocolyn Settlement Road (1)
- Elwood Road (4)
- Foxhow Road (6)
- Hasties Lane (1)
- Mcmahons Road (1)
- Milangil Estate Road (9)
- Milangil Road (3)
- Mount Myrtoon Lane (2)
- Wiridgil Lane (1)
