Tamboon VIC 3890
30 addresses · 7 streets
Gippsland Electorate › East Gippsland LGA › Tamboon · 368 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Tamboon is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 3 people, with a median age of 73. The typical household earns around $900 a week. Most homes are houses. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Orbost statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Tamboon itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
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: 86.4% 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 | 86.4% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 97.4% |
Demographics
Population by age in Tamboon
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Tamboon
| House | 3 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Tamboon
| English | 5 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 0 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,413 bird observations recorded near Tamboon — most often seen:
- Superb Fairy-wren (70)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (68)
- Brown Thornbill (63)
- Black Swan (62)
- Australian Pelican (61)
- White-bellied Sea-eagle (60)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (58)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (54)
- Grey Fantail (52)
- Eastern Spinebill (51)
- Little Pied Cormorant (50)
- White-throated Treecreeper (50)
- Little Black Cormorant (48)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Tamboon
- Chestnut Teal (45)
- Laughing Kookaburra (44)
- Silver Gull (44)
- White-browed Scrubwren (44)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (43)
- Eastern Whipbird (42)
- Great Cormorant (42)
- Pied Currawong (42)
- New Holland Honeyeater (41)
- Pacific Black Duck (41)
- Little Wattlebird (38)
- Red Wattlebird (34)
- Superb Lyrebird (34)
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (33)
- Silvereye (33)
- Welcome Swallow (33)
- Whistling Kite (33)
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 Tamboon:
- Bemm River (16.3 km)
- Cann River (18.3 km)
- Tonghi Creek (19 km)
- Noorinbee (26.6 km)
- Club Terrace (28.2 km)
- Bellbird Creek (30.2 km)
- Manorina (31.5 km)
- Noorinbee North (34.4 km)
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Streets
- Banksia Gully Road (10)
- Bays Track (1)
- Broomes Track (2)
- Morris Road (11)
- Omeara Track (1)
- Point Hicks Road (1)
- Tamboon Road (4)
