The Cove VIC 3268
10 addresses · 1 street
Wannon Electorate › Moyne LGA › The Cove · 212 km from Melbourne
Living Here
The Cove is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 18 people, with a median age of 61. The typical household earns around $2,249 a week, with median rent near $100 a week. Most homes are houses. About 50% of households own their home and 50% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Scottish, English. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Moyne - East statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: The Cove itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 beach
1 vet
Getting around. Airport: Warrnambool Airport, 30.9 km north-west.
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: 0.9% 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 | 0.9% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 1.6% |
Demographics
Population by age in The Cove
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 4 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 4 |
| 65-74 | 5 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 7 |
Dwelling types in The Cove
| House | 9 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in The Cove
| Australian | 8 |
|---|---|
| Scottish | 7 |
| English | 4 |
| Irish | 4 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in The Cove
| Owned | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 3 |
| Other | 0 |
Commute to work in The Cove
| Car | 4 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
491 bird observations recorded near The Cove — most often seen:
- Short-tailed Shearwater (90)
- Common Starling (34)
- Australian Shelduck (31)
- Australian Magpie (25)
- Straw-necked Ibis (21)
- House Sparrow (18)
- Long-billed Corella (18)
- Singing Honeyeater (18)
- Southern Victoria Australian Magpie (16)
- Black-shouldered Kite (14)
- European Goldfinch (14)
- Little Raven (14)
- Welcome Swallow (14)
Show all 30 birds recorded near The Cove
- Nankeen Kestrel (13)
- Eastern Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (11)
- Eurasian Blackbird (11)
- Hooded Plover (11)
- Australian Raven (10)
- Black-faced Cormorant (10)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (10)
- Eurasian Skylark (9)
- Magpie-lark (9)
- Pacific Black Duck (9)
- Silvereye (9)
- South-eastern Singing Honeyeater (9)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (9)
- Superb Fairy-wren (9)
- Willie Wagtail (9)
- Australasian Gannet (8)
- Black Swan (8)
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 The Cove:
- Mepunga (3.5 km)
- Mepunga East (4.5 km)
- Nullawarre (5.9 km)
- Nirranda (6.4 km)
- Mepunga West (7.5 km)
- Nullawarre North (9.4 km)
- Naringal (10.1 km)
- Nirranda South (10.8 km)
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Streets
- Childers Cove Road (10)