Thorpdale VIC 3835
486 addresses · 35 streets
Monash Electorate › Baw Baw LGA › Thorpdale · 118 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Thorpdale is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 475 people, with a median age of 46. The typical household earns around $1,220 a week, with median rent near $250 a week. Most homes are houses. About 83% of households own their home and 10% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Trafalgar (Vic.) statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Thorpdale itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 park
1 bakery
Getting around. Train station: Trafalgar, 9.9 km north · Airport: Latrobe Valley Airport, 28 km east.
Sport & Recreation
4 facilities recorded in Thorpdale.
- Thorpdale & District Bowling Club Inc Lawn Bowls
- Thorpdale Badminton Club Badminton
- Thorpdale Recreation Reserve Australian Rules Football, Cricket, Netball, Tennis (Outdoor)
- Thorpdale Swimming Pool Swimming
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: 8.7% 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.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 8.7% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 20.0% |
Demographics
Unemployment 2.6% · Labour-force participation 59.7%
Population by age in Thorpdale
| 0-4 | 30 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 57 |
| 15-19 | 27 |
| 20-24 | 25 |
| 25-34 | 50 |
| 35-44 | 48 |
| 45-54 | 60 |
| 55-64 | 82 |
| 65-74 | 69 |
| 75-84 | 23 |
| 85+ | 10 |
Dwelling types in Thorpdale
| House | 184 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Thorpdale
| <$650 | 38 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 64 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 52 |
| $3,000+ | 14 |
Top ancestries in Thorpdale
| Australian | 228 |
|---|---|
| English | 176 |
| Irish | 55 |
| Italian | 51 |
| Scottish | 47 |
| Ancestry NS | 31 |
Housing tenure in Thorpdale
| Owned | 88 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 63 |
| Rented | 18 |
| Other | 14 |
Cars per household in Thorpdale
| 0 | 6 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 37 |
| 2 | 69 |
| 3 | 43 |
| 4+ | 27 |
Commute to work in Thorpdale
| Car | 128 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 15 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 45 |
Top countries of birth in Thorpdale
| England | 16 |
|---|---|
| Italy | 7 |
| India | 6 |
| Philippines | 4 |
| New Zealand | 3 |
Languages used at home in Thorpdale
| Italian | 11 |
|---|---|
| Russian | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
904 bird observations recorded near Thorpdale — most often seen:
- Eurasian Blackbird (52)
- Australasian Purple Swamphen (45)
- Australian Magpie (42)
- Australian Wood Duck (40)
- Eastern Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (40)
- Black Swan (39)
- House Sparrow (39)
- Common Starling (36)
- European Goldfinch (33)
- Eurasian Coot (32)
- Welcome Swallow (32)
- Australian Shelduck (30)
- Southern Victoria Australian Magpie (29)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Thorpdale
- Crimson Rosella (28)
- Brown Thornbill (27)
- Superb Fairy-wren (27)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (26)
- Australian White Ibis (25)
- Laughing Kookaburra (25)
- Magpie-lark (25)
- Masked Lapwing (25)
- Northern Superb Fairy-wren (25)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (24)
- Eastern Grey Shrike-thrush (23)
- Southern Masked Lapwing (23)
- Swamp Harrier (23)
- Willie Wagtail (23)
- European Greenfinch (22)
- Grey Fantail (22)
- South-eastern Brown Thornbill (22)
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 Thorpdale:
- Thorpdale South (5 km)
- Childers (5.7 km)
- Trafalgar South (5.8 km)
- Delburn (6.3 km)
- Narracan (6.8 km)
- Allambee South (8.3 km)
- Yarragon South (9.7 km)
- Allambee Reserve (9.8 km)
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Streets
- Allambee South Road (18)
- Bishops Road (2)
- Childers-thorpdale Road (20)
- Chute Road (16)
- Cooks Road (6)
- Cornwalls Road (2)
- Dingley Dell Road (14)
- Easterbrook Road (4)
- Germano Road (1)
- Gillotts Road (5)
- Graham Street (8)
- Griffiths Road (4)
- Gunn Court (10)
- Hamilton Street (18)
- Jennings Road (3)
- Johnstone Street (14)
- Mathews Road (2)
- Mcdonalds Track (97)
- Mirboo North-trafalgar Road (28)
- Moores Road (2)
- Morton Street (10)
- Morwell-thorpdale Road (17)
- Narracan Connection Road (5)
- Railway Road (18)
- Robinson Street (21)
- Saviges Road (7)
- Smiths Road (2)
- Station Street (27)
- Stockdales Road (7)
- Sunny Creek Road (58)
- Thompson Road (1)
- Trafalgar South Road (32)
- Trafalgar-thorpdale Road (1)
- Valley Road (1)
- Walshes Road (5)
