Wingan River VIC 3891
22 addresses · 3 streets
Gippsland Electorate › East Gippsland LGA › Wingan River · 397 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Wingan River is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 4 people, with a median age of 33. The typical household earns around $900 a week. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 7 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: Wingan River itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
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: 89.4% 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 | 89.4% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 98.3% |
Demographics
Top ancestries in Wingan River
| English | 4 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 0 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
635 bird observations recorded near Wingan River — most often seen:
- Superb Fairy-wren (42)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (35)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (31)
- Grey Fantail (29)
- Pied Currawong (27)
- Brown Thornbill (23)
- Eastern Yellow Robin (23)
- White-browed Scrubwren (23)
- White-throated Treecreeper (23)
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (22)
- Welcome Swallow (22)
- White-eared Honeyeater (22)
- Dusky Woodswallow (21)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Wingan River
- Rainbow Lorikeet (21)
- New Holland Honeyeater (20)
- Red Wattlebird (20)
- Rufous Whistler (20)
- Australian Magpie (19)
- Australian Raven (19)
- Eastern Whipbird (19)
- Pallid Cuckoo (19)
- Jacky Winter (16)
- Laughing Kookaburra (16)
- Bell Miner (15)
- Masked Lapwing (15)
- Spotted Pardalote (15)
- Striated Thornbill (15)
- Wedge-tailed Eagle (15)
- Crimson Rosella (14)
- Eastern Spinebill (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 Wingan River:
- Wangarabell (15.6 km)
- Genoa (16.2 km)
- Maramingo Creek (17.9 km)
- Wroxham (20 km)
- Gipsy Point (20.6 km)
- Wallagaraugh (25 km)
- Noorinbee (25.3 km)
- Noorinbee North (25.5 km)
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Streets
- Princes Highway (3)
- Rocky Ridge Track (1)
- Upper Wingan Road (18)