Nerrina VIC 3350

Living Here

Nerrina is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 970 people, with a median age of 42. The typical household earns around $2,405 a week, with median rent near $380 a week. Most homes are houses. About 91% of households own their home and 8% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 10 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area. The median house sells for about $733,000.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Ballarat - North statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Nerrina itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 19 schools

  • Little Bendigo Primary School
  • Caledonian Primary School
  • Black Hill Primary School
  • Woodmans Hill Secondary College
  • Ballarat North Primary School
  • St Alipius Parish School
  • St Francis Xavier Primary School
  • St Columba's School
  • Macarthur Street Primary School
  • Invermay Primary School

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• 16 cafés & restaurants

  • Espresso District
  • The Forge Pizza
  • Common Ground Cafe
  • Tin Roof Cafe
  • Steam Coffee Ballarat
  • Zaragosa
  • Carboni's Italian Kitchen
  • Lydiard General Cafe
  • Soldiers Woodfired Pizzeria
  • Naomi & i

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• 3 supermarkets

  • IGA
  • Coles Bakery Hill
  • Ryan's Super IGA
• 17 parks

  • Chisholm Street Reserve
  • Brown Hill Reserve
  • Inkerman Gully Reserve
  • Binney Reserve
  • Bullock Gully Reserve
  • Black Hill
  • Peal Street Park
  • Hearns Road Park
  • Webb Avenue Reserve
  • Marks Reserve

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• 4 Catholic churches

  • St Columba's
  • St Patrick's Cathedral
  • St. Aloysius
  • St Thérèse of the Little Flower Church
• 2 pharmacies

  • Chemist Warehouse
  • Terry White Chemmart
• 1 physiotherapist

  • Body Be Good
• 5 optometrists

  • Kevin Paisley
  • Sturt Optical
  • Fairbanks Eye Gallery
  • Darryl Wilson & Associates
  • Lake Eyewear
• 6 hospitals

  • Nazareth House Aged Care
  • St John of God Hospital
  • Ballarat Base Hospital
  • Queen Elizabeth Centre
  • Ballarat Day Procedure Centre
  • Creswick Hospital and Nursing Home
• 3 vets

  • Eastwood Veterinary Clinic
  • Ballarat Veterinary Practice
  • Wendouree Veterinary Clinic
• 2 childcare & kindergartens

  • Journey Early Learning Center
  • Neighbourhood Early Learning Centre
• 2 libraries

  • Central Highlands Regional Library Corp. Ballarat branch
  • Mechanics' Institute & Free Library
• 4 post offices

  • Brown Hill Post Office
  • Black Hill Post Office
  • Ballarat North Post Office
  • Bakery Hill Business Centre Post Office
• 7 service stations

  • Brown Hill Service Station
  • Shell Petrol
  • Sinopec
  • BP
  • Astron Ballarat
  • Metro Petroleum
  • Shell
• 5 gyms & sports centres

  • Invermay Recreation Reserve
  • Invermay Bowling Club
  • Sweaty AF
  • Ballarat Netball Association Inc.
  • Llanberris Athletics Track
• 3 golf clubs

  • Mt Xavier Golf Course and Lawn Bowls Club
  • Midlands Gold Course
  • Ballarat Golf Course
• 1 dog park

  • CE Brown Reserve Fenced Dog Park
• 1 bakery

  • Bakers Delight
• 1 butcher

  • John Harbour Quality Butcher
• 3 hardware stores

  • Bunnings Warehouse
  • Such N Such
  • Eyres Brothers & Newman Hardware
• 4 hairdressers

  • Cutters Chair
  • FabHair
  • Boutique Hair Parlour
  • Ballarat Barber Shop
• 1 beauty salon

  • Saigon Nails
• 2 mechanics

  • Ballarat AutoGlass
  • Barry James Auto Body Repairs
• 24 places to stay

  • BIG4 Ballarat Welcome Stranger Holiday Park
  • Eureka Stockade Holiday Park
  • Ballarat Miners Retreat Motel
  • Cat's Whiskers Cottage
  • Ballaratprimavera
  • Quest Ballarat Station
  • The Provincial Hotel
  • Soverign Park Inn
  • Craig's Royal Hotel
  • Ansonia on Lydiard

  See all 24 places to stay near Nerrina →

Getting around. Train station: Ballarat, 2.9 km south-west · Railway halt: Invermay Miniature Railway, 2.7 km north-west · Bus interchange: Ballarat Station, 3 km south-west.

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Socio-economic Standing

Median Sale Prices

Greenery

🌳 Tree canopy: 90.8% satellite estimate · 2021

Demographics

Unemployment 3.3% · Labour-force participation 74%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

57,843 bird observations recorded near Nerrina — most often seen:

• Magpie-lark (3,334)
• Pacific Black Duck (3,176)
• Eurasian Coot (3,169)
• Little Raven (3,068)
• Black Swan (2,869)
• Red Wattlebird (2,762)
• Silver Gull (2,577)
• Australian Magpie (2,470)
• Common Starling (2,390)
• Australian Wood Duck (2,371)
• Dusky Moorhen (2,297)
• Little Pied Cormorant (2,283)
• Australasian Purple Swamphen (2,169)

Nearby Suburbs

The closest suburbs to Nerrina:

• Black Hill (1.7 km)
• Brown Hill (1.8 km)
• Ballarat North (1.9 km)
• Eureka (2.3 km)
• Ballarat East (2.3 km)
• Soldiers Hill (2.6 km)
• Bakery Hill (2.9 km)
• Invermay Park (3.2 km)

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