Watchupga VIC 3485
26 addresses · 12 streets
Mallee Electorate › Buloke LGA › Watchupga · 304 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Watchupga is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 43 people, with a median age of 43. The typical household earns around $966 a week, with median rent near $50 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 6 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Buloke statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Watchupga itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
Getting around. Airport: Hopetoun Airport, 31.1 km 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: 1.7% 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 | 1.7% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 1.9% |
Demographics
Population by age in Watchupga
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 13 |
| 15-19 | 5 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 5 |
| 45-54 | 9 |
| 55-64 | 8 |
| 65-74 | 4 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Watchupga
| House | 14 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Watchupga
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 11 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Watchupga
| Australian | 20 |
|---|---|
| English | 15 |
| Aboriginal | 5 |
| Scottish | 5 |
| Ancestry NS | 5 |
| Irish | 4 |
Housing tenure in Watchupga
| Owned | 9 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 8 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Watchupga
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 10 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Watchupga
| Car | 12 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 3 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
154 bird observations recorded near Watchupga — most often seen:
- Bluebonnet (10)
- Nankeen Kestrel (10)
- Pied Butcherbird (10)
- Red-rumped Parrot (8)
- Welcome Swallow (8)
- Willie Wagtail (8)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (7)
- White-winged Chough (7)
- Crested Pigeon (6)
- White-browed Woodswallow (6)
- Australian Magpie (5)
- House Sparrow (5)
- Noisy Miner (5)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Watchupga
- Singing Honeyeater (5)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (5)
- Eastern Pied Butcherbird (4)
- Eastern White-plumed Honeyeater (4)
- Galah (4)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (4)
- Cockatiel (3)
- Common Starling (3)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (3)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (3)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (3)
- Eastern White-winged Chough (3)
- Little Pied Cormorant (3)
- Magpie-lark (3)
- Mainland Tree Martin (3)
- Pacific Black Duck (3)
- South-eastern Singing Honeyeater (3)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
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Streets
- Bildstein Road (1)
- Doran Road (2)
- Kellys Road (1)
- Mcphees Road (1)
- Old Woomelang Road (1)
- Russell Road (1)
- Stannard Road (1)
- Sunraysia Highway (3)
- Tagliabue Road (2)
- Watchupga East Road (8)
- Watchupga West Road (4)
- Wilkur-watchupga Road (1)