Mountain Bay VIC 3723
69 addresses · 13 streets
Indi Electorate › Mansfield LGA › Mountain Bay · 121 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Mountain Bay is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 54 people, with a median age of 61. The typical household earns around $966 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 English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Mansfield (Vic.) statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Mountain Bay itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 park
1 hospital
3 places to stay
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: 37.9% 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 | 37.9% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 54.9% |
Demographics
Population by age in Mountain Bay
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 4 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 6 |
| 55-64 | 16 |
| 65-74 | 19 |
| 75-84 | 8 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Mountain Bay
| House | 29 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Mountain Bay
| <$650 | 3 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 13 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 4 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Mountain Bay
| English | 25 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 18 |
| Irish | 10 |
| Scottish | 7 |
| Greek | 6 |
| German | 5 |
Housing tenure in Mountain Bay
| Owned | 22 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 3 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Mountain Bay
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 9 |
| 3 | 9 |
| 4+ | 8 |
Commute to work in Mountain Bay
| Car | 15 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 6 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Top countries of birth in Mountain Bay
| England | 8 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
516 bird observations recorded near Mountain Bay — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (42)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (32)
- Laughing Kookaburra (31)
- Superb Fairy-wren (31)
- Crimson Rosella (25)
- Red Wattlebird (24)
- Grey Fantail (23)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (21)
- Australian Wood Duck (19)
- Brown Thornbill (18)
- Eurasian Blackbird (18)
- Welcome Swallow (18)
- Australian King-parrot (17)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Mountain Bay
- Pied Currawong (17)
- Little Corella (15)
- Spotted Pardalote (15)
- Striated Pardalote (14)
- Satin Bowerbird (13)
- Silvereye (13)
- Australian Raven (12)
- Eastern Spinebill (11)
- Whistling Kite (11)
- Eastern Rosella (10)
- Galah (10)
- Little Raven (10)
- Yellow Thornbill (10)
- Pacific Black Duck (9)
- Straw-necked Ibis (9)
- White-browed Scrubwren (9)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (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 Mountain Bay:
- Goughs Bay (1 km)
- Lake Eildon (4 km)
- Piries (5.1 km)
- Macs Cove (6.9 km)
- Howqua Inlet (7 km)
- Howes Creek (7.7 km)
- Delatite (8.5 km)
- Howqua (11.6 km)
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Streets
- Bankers Rise (13)
- Bayview Way (7)
- Fossickers Trail (1)
- Goughs Point Ridge (7)
- Goughs Point Way (5)
- Harbour Line Drive (2)
- Lower Glen (2)
- Mountain Bay Drive (7)
- Murmuring Way (1)
- Ridge Way (5)
- Song Bird Way (2)
- The Dress Circle (12)
- The Entrance (5)
