Porepunkah VIC 3740

Living Here

Porepunkah is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 1,024 people, with a median age of 46. The typical household earns around $1,576 a week, with median rent near $383 a week. Most homes are houses. About 79% of households own their home and 19% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area. The median house sells for about $790,000.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Bright - Mount Beauty statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Porepunkah itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Porepunkah Primary School
• 2 cafés & restaurants

  • Great Alpine Produce and Trading
  • Rail Trail Cafe
• 2 parks

  • Porepunkah Oval
  • Riverside Park
• 1 Catholic church

  • Our Lady of the Snow
• 2 hospitals

  • Bright Hospital
  • Bright District Hospital & Health Services
• 1 vet

  • Alpine Animal Doctors
• 1 library

  • Bright Library
• 1 service station

  • Porepunkah Roadhouse
• 1 golf club

  • Bright Golf Course
• 1 mechanic

  • Marty's Garage
• 27 places to stay

  • Porepunkah Pub
  • Discovery Parks - Mount Buffalo
  • The Pines Retreat
  • Porepunkah Pines Holiday Park
  • Mount Buffalo Caravan Park
  • Riverview Caravan Park
  • Alpine Park Riverside Cottages
  • Porepunkah Mill Holiday Park
  • Adina Lodge Holiday Units
  • High Country Motor Inn

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Getting around. Airport: Porepunkah Airport, 3 km south-west.

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Sport & Recreation

1 facility recorded in Porepunkah.

• Porepunkah Recreation Reserve Baseball, Tennis (Outdoor)

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.

Median Sale Prices

Median of recorded sales in the period, not a valuation. Source: Victorian Property Sales Report, Land Use Victoria.

Tree cover

🌳 Tree canopy: 65.7% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 1.4% · Labour-force participation 65.7%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

5,964 bird observations recorded near Porepunkah — most often seen:

• Superb Fairy-wren (369)
• Crimson Rosella (320)
• Pied Currawong (285)
• Grey Fantail (282)
• Laughing Kookaburra (270)
• Australian Magpie (267)
• Red Wattlebird (252)
• Satin Bowerbird (247)
• Australian Wood Duck (242)
• Eurasian Blackbird (240)
• Australian King-parrot (233)
• Brown Thornbill (227)
• Galah (197)

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 Porepunkah:

• Bright (5.8 km)
• Eurobin (7.5 km)
• Buckland (7.6 km)
• Havilah (8.6 km)
• Wandiligong (10.7 km)
• Germantown (11.3 km)
• Freeburgh (13.5 km)
• Rosewhite (13.7 km)

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