Skinners Flat VIC 3518
14 addresses · 4 streets
Mallee Electorate › Loddon LGA › Skinners Flat · 202 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Skinners Flat is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 27 people, with a median age of 50. The typical household earns around $1,125 a week, with median rent near $75 a week. Most homes are houses. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Maori, Australian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Loddon statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Skinners Flat itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 golf club
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: 8.5% 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 | 8.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 75.6% |
Demographics
Unemployment 16.7% · Labour-force participation 25%
Population by age in Skinners Flat
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 5 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 9 |
| 55-64 | 8 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 3 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Skinners Flat
| House | 9 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Skinners Flat
| English | 10 |
|---|---|
| Maori | 6 |
| Australian | 5 |
| Ancestry NS | 5 |
| Scottish | 4 |
| Irish | 3 |
Cars per household in Skinners Flat
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Skinners Flat
| Car | 9 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Top countries of birth in Skinners Flat
| England | 5 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 5 |
Languages used at home in Skinners Flat
| Greek | 4 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
4,589 bird observations recorded near Skinners Flat — most often seen:
- Galah (271)
- Red Wattlebird (237)
- Australian Magpie (232)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (222)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (217)
- Willie Wagtail (209)
- Yellow-tufted Honeyeater (200)
- White-winged Chough (189)
- Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (188)
- Eastern Rosella (168)
- Brown Treecreeper (164)
- Brown-headed Honeyeater (157)
- Common Bronzewing (155)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Skinners Flat
- Weebill (153)
- White-eared Honeyeater (151)
- Superb Fairy-wren (145)
- Welcome Swallow (134)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (128)
- Australian Raven (119)
- Striated Pardalote (119)
- Fuscous Honeyeater (118)
- Southern Scrub-robin (110)
- White-browed Babbler (109)
- Black-chinned Honeyeater (107)
- Peaceful Dove (106)
- Diamond Firetail (101)
- Red-capped Robin (100)
- Restless Flycatcher (100)
- Noisy Miner (90)
- Rufous Whistler (90)
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 Skinners Flat:
- Wedderburn (6.4 km)
- Woolshed Flat (8 km)
- Richmond Plains (9.1 km)
- Korong Vale (9.8 km)
- Woosang (10.6 km)
- Wychitella (10.6 km)
- Wedderburn Junction (12.4 km)
- Nine Mile (12.8 km)
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Streets
- Gibson Road (4)
- Mount Kerang Road (3)
- Smith Road (2)
- Wedderburn-wychitella Road (5)