Mount Emu VIC 3351
19 addresses · 6 streets
Wannon Electorate › Pyrenees LGA › Mount Emu · 139 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Mount Emu is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 28 people, with a median age of 26. The typical household earns around $1,562 a week, with median rent near $100 a week. Most homes are houses. About 50% of households own their home and 50% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Irish, Australian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Beaufort statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Mount Emu itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
1 gym
1 golf club
Getting around. Airport: Ararat Airport, 48.9 km north-west.
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: 3% 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 | 3.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 3.4% |
Demographics
Population by age in Mount Emu
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 10 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 6 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 5 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Mount Emu
| House | 9 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Mount Emu
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 0 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 4 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Mount Emu
| English | 13 |
|---|---|
| Irish | 9 |
| Australian | 8 |
| Scottish | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Mount Emu
| Owned | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 3 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Mount Emu
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Mount Emu
| Car | 7 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 4 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,094 bird observations recorded near Mount Emu — most often seen:
- Brolga (93)
- Little Raven (74)
- Eurasian Skylark (54)
- European Goldfinch (54)
- Australian Magpie (49)
- Brown Falcon (47)
- Common Starling (47)
- Australian Shelduck (45)
- Black Swan (44)
- Pacific Black Duck (37)
- Southern Victoria Australian Magpie (36)
- White-faced Heron (35)
- Magpie-lark (34)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Mount Emu
- House Sparrow (33)
- Masked Lapwing (33)
- Willie Wagtail (31)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (31)
- White-necked Heron (30)
- Grey Teal (28)
- Long-billed Corella (27)
- Australian Pipit (25)
- South-eastern Yellow-rumped Thornbill (25)
- Eurasian Blackbird (23)
- Nankeen Kestrel (23)
- Silver Gull (23)
- Southern Magpie-lark (23)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (23)
- Welcome Swallow (23)
- White-fronted Chat (23)
- Little Pied Cormorant (21)
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 Mount Emu:
- Lake Goldsmith (8.3 km)
- Skipton (9.6 km)
- Mena Park (9.7 km)
- Pittong (9.8 km)
- Chepstowe (10.3 km)
- Stockyard Hill (12.7 km)
- Nerring (12.8 km)
- Carngham (15.4 km)
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Streets
- Carngham-streatham Road (12)
- Mortchup-mount Emu Road (1)
- Mount Emu Settlement Road (3)
- Oddies Road (1)
- Pittong Road (1)
- Trawalla West Road (1)