Yanakie VIC 3960
298 addresses · 27 streets
Monash Electorate › South Gippsland LGA › Yanakie · 155 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Yanakie is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 283 people, with a median age of 51. The typical household earns around $1,331 a week, with median rent near $220 a week. Most homes are houses. About 71% of households own their home and 23% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Scottish. 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 Foster statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Yanakie itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 café or restaurant
1 supermarket
1 service station
1 playground
Sport & Recreation
2 facilities recorded in Yanakie.
- Corner Inlet Moror Cycyle Club Motor Cycling
- Lance Moon Park Tennis (Outdoor)
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: 6% 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 | 6.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 6.6% |
Demographics
Unemployment 0.7% · Labour-force participation 59.7%
Population by age in Yanakie
| 0-4 | 10 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 41 |
| 15-19 | 24 |
| 20-24 | 12 |
| 25-34 | 21 |
| 35-44 | 21 |
| 45-54 | 46 |
| 55-64 | 56 |
| 65-74 | 51 |
| 75-84 | 14 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Yanakie
| House | 106 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 3 |
Households by weekly income in Yanakie
| <$650 | 19 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 45 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 24 |
| $3,000+ | 4 |
Top ancestries in Yanakie
| Australian | 116 |
|---|---|
| English | 113 |
| Scottish | 37 |
| Irish | 34 |
| Other | 17 |
| Ancestry NS | 15 |
Housing tenure in Yanakie
| Owned | 48 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 27 |
| Rented | 24 |
| Other | 6 |
Cars per household in Yanakie
| 0 | 4 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 40 |
| 3 | 25 |
| 4+ | 13 |
Commute to work in Yanakie
| Car | 62 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 12 |
| Bicycle | 3 |
| Home | 37 |
Top countries of birth in Yanakie
| England | 11 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 5 |
| Scotland | 4 |
| Sri Lanka | 4 |
Languages used at home in Yanakie
| German | 6 |
|---|---|
| Japanese | 4 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
4,869 bird observations recorded near Yanakie — most often seen:
- Pacific Gull (350)
- Silver Gull (268)
- Black Swan (262)
- White-faced Heron (236)
- Australian White Ibis (227)
- Superb Fairy-wren (215)
- Grey Fantail (208)
- Red Wattlebird (203)
- Australian Magpie (191)
- Eurasian Blackbird (190)
- Common Starling (174)
- Little Pied Cormorant (163)
- Brown Thornbill (160)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Yanakie
- Little Wattlebird (157)
- Magpie-lark (152)
- Welcome Swallow (139)
- Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (137)
- Silvereye (133)
- Galah (131)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (123)
- Australian Pelican (121)
- Chestnut Teal (116)
- Eastern Curlew (107)
- Masked Lapwing (107)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (106)
- White-browed Scrubwren (104)
- Great Egret (101)
- Forest Raven (99)
- New Holland Honeyeater (95)
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (94)
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 Yanakie:
- Wilsons Promontory (6.5 km)
- Sandy Point (7.5 km)
- Waratah Bay (14.3 km)
- Fish Creek (14.7 km)
- Port Franklin (15.3 km)
- Bennison (16.4 km)
- Foster (16.8 km)
- Walkerville (18.4 km)
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Streets
- Adams Road (9)
- Black Swamp Road (3)
- Charles Hall Road (4)
- Dalgleish Road (6)
- Davies Road (2)
- Foley Road (29)
- Foster-promontory Road (1)
- Foster-waratah Road (1)
- Hellisen Court (10)
- Hourigan Camp Lane (4)
- Iluka Close (5)
- Lance Drive (4)
- Leslea Court (5)
- Lester Road (7)
- Meeniyan-promontory Road (73)
- Millar Road (44)
- Old Yanakie Road (5)
- Paterson Road (19)
- Red Bluff Road (2)
- Shellcott Road (25)
- Soldiers Road (2)
- Stockyard Court (11)
- Tingara Close (5)
- Winkarlin Drive (3)
- Wood Court (11)
- Yanakie Road (1)
- Yaringa Court (7)
