Tonghi Creek VIC 3890
10 addresses · 5 streets
Gippsland Electorate › East Gippsland LGA › Tonghi Creek · 362 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Tonghi Creek is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 5 people, with a median age of 78. The typical household earns around $1,375 a week, with median rent near $150 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 100% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Irish, Australian. 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: Tonghi Creek itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
Getting around. Airport: Orbost Airport, 46.7 km south-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: 81% 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 | 81.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 92.8% |
Demographics
Population by age in Tonghi Creek
| 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 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 4 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Tonghi Creek
| House | 3 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Tonghi Creek
| English | 5 |
|---|---|
| Irish | 4 |
| Australian | 0 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Tonghi Creek
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 4 |
| Other | 0 |
Commute to work in Tonghi Creek
| Car | 4 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
669 bird observations recorded near Tonghi Creek — most often seen:
- Superb Fairy-wren (35)
- Pied Currawong (33)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (31)
- Grey Fantail (31)
- Laughing Kookaburra (31)
- Southern Boobook (30)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (27)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (27)
- White-throated Treecreeper (26)
- Brown Thornbill (25)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (22)
- Crimson Rosella (22)
- Golden Whistler (21)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Tonghi Creek
- White-browed Scrubwren (21)
- Eastern Spinebill (20)
- Rufous Whistler (20)
- Australian Magpie (19)
- Bell Miner (19)
- Eastern Whipbird (19)
- Eastern Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (19)
- Red Wattlebird (19)
- Welcome Swallow (19)
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (18)
- Australian Raven (17)
- House Sparrow (17)
- Olive-backed Oriole (17)
- Pallid Cuckoo (16)
- Superb Lyrebird (16)
- Whistling Kite (16)
- White-faced Heron (16)
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 Tonghi Creek:
- Cann River (7.8 km)
- Club Terrace (12.5 km)
- Noorinbee (13 km)
- Combienbar (18.8 km)
- Tamboon (19 km)
- Noorinbee North (20.2 km)
- Bemm River (22.2 km)
- Bellbird Creek (23.6 km)
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Streets
- Coast Road (1)
- Connley Track (1)
- Lower Tonghi Road (4)
- Morrisons Road (3)
- Princes Highway (1)