Venus Bay VIC 3956

Living Here

Venus Bay is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 904 people, with a median age of 58. The typical household earns around $922 a week, with median rent near $280 a week. Most homes are houses. About 82% of households own their home and 15% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area. The median house sells for about $511,000.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Foster statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Venus Bay itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 2 cafés & restaurants

  • The Bay Gourmet
  • Cavity
• 1 supermarket

  • Venus Bay General Store
• 1 park

  • Jupiter Park
• 1 hardware store

  • Mitre 10
• 1 place to stay

  • River Drive Motel

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Sport & Recreation

1 facility recorded in Venus Bay.

• Venus Bay Surf Life Saving Club Surf Life Saving

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.

Median Sale Prices

Median of recorded sales in the period, not a valuation. Source: Victorian Property Sales Report, Land Use Victoria.

Tree cover

🌳 Tree canopy: 36.1% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 5.3% · Labour-force participation 41.4%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

16,237 bird observations recorded near Venus Bay — most often seen:

• Common Starling (993)
• Welcome Swallow (897)
• Australian White Ibis (870)
• White-faced Heron (827)
• Silver Gull (740)
• Australian Magpie (731)
• Red Wattlebird (663)
• Royal Spoonbill (630)
• Superb Fairy-wren (617)
• Southern Victoria Australian Magpie (583)
• Masked Lapwing (576)
• Magpie-lark (568)
• Great Egret (561)

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 Venus Bay:

• Pound Creek (8.7 km)
• Tarwin Lower (9.4 km)
• Inverloch (9.9 km)
• Middle Tarwin (10.6 km)
• Wattle Bank (16 km)
• Cape Paterson (17.4 km)
• Tarwin (17.6 km)
• St Clair (18.7 km)

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