Waygara VIC 3888
17 addresses · 3 streets
Gippsland Electorate › East Gippsland LGA › Waygara · 295 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Waygara is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 20 people, with a median age of 25. The typical household earns around $1,625 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 English, Australian, Scottish. 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 Orbost statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Waygara itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
Getting around. Airport: Orbost Airport, 26.2 km east.
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: 78.4% 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 | 78.4% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 85.0% |
Demographics
Unemployment 20% · Labour-force participation 76.9%
Population by age in Waygara
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 4 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 4 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 4 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Waygara
| House | 4 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Waygara
| English | 14 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 13 |
| Scottish | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Waygara
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 4 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Commute to work in Waygara
| Car | 6 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
670 bird observations recorded near Waygara — most often seen:
- Grey Shrike-thrush (38)
- Superb Fairy-wren (34)
- Grey Fantail (33)
- Brown Thornbill (32)
- Glossy Black-cockatoo (32)
- Laughing Kookaburra (28)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (27)
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (26)
- Red Wattlebird (24)
- Superb Lyrebird (24)
- White-throated Treecreeper (23)
- Wonga Pigeon (23)
- Australian Magpie (22)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Waygara
- Eastern Spinebill (22)
- Emu (22)
- Pied Currawong (21)
- Australian Raven (20)
- Striated Thornbill (20)
- Common Bronzewing (19)
- Crimson Rosella (18)
- Spotted Pardalote (18)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (18)
- Spotted Quail-thrush (17)
- Eastern Whipbird (16)
- Eastern Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (16)
- Golden Whistler (16)
- Northern Superb Fairy-wren (16)
- Southern Laughing Kookaburra (16)
- White-naped Honeyeater (15)
- Eastern Grey Shrike-thrush (14)
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 Waygara:
- Wombat Creek (3.2 km)
- Simpsons Creek (3.2 km)
- Bete Bolong (6.9 km)
- Jarrahmond (10.7 km)
- Tostaree (11.3 km)
- Newmerella (11.6 km)
- Corringle (12.6 km)
- Orbost (13.7 km)
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Streets
- Princes Highway (4)
- Waygara Road (12)
- Wombat Road (1)