Yatchaw VIC 3301
18 addresses · 7 streets
Wannon Electorate › Southern Grampians LGA › Yatchaw · 247 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Yatchaw is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 35 people, with a median age of 30. The typical household earns around $2,250 a week, with median rent near $231 a week. Most homes are houses. About 70% of households own their home and 30% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, NZ. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 9 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Southern Grampians statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Yatchaw itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
Getting around. Airport: Hamilton Airport, 22.8 km north.
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: 1.6% 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 | 1.6% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 1.4% |
Demographics
Population by age in Yatchaw
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 8 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 5 |
| 35-44 | 4 |
| 45-54 | 6 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 5 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Yatchaw
| House | 11 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Yatchaw
| Australian | 23 |
|---|---|
| English | 9 |
| NZ | 5 |
| German | 4 |
| Italian | 4 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
Housing tenure in Yatchaw
| Owned | 7 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 3 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Yatchaw
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 7 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Yatchaw
| Car | 4 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
955 bird observations recorded near Yatchaw — most often seen:
- White-faced Heron (66)
- Masked Lapwing (56)
- Black Swan (55)
- Pacific Black Duck (54)
- Grey Teal (53)
- Australasian Purple Swamphen (52)
- Australian Shelduck (51)
- Brolga (47)
- Straw-necked Ibis (44)
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill (41)
- Australian White Ibis (38)
- White-necked Heron (38)
- Little Raven (35)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Yatchaw
- Swamp Harrier (29)
- Little Pied Cormorant (27)
- Eurasian Skylark (24)
- Hoary-headed Grebe (24)
- European Goldfinch (23)
- Brown Falcon (22)
- Australian Magpie (21)
- Southern Masked Lapwing (19)
- Eurasian Coot (18)
- Magpie-lark (16)
- Southern Victoria Australian Magpie (16)
- Australasian Shoveler (15)
- Chestnut Teal (15)
- Common Starling (14)
- Hardhead (14)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (14)
- Silver Gull (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 Yatchaw:
- Tabor (4.2 km)
- Buckley Swamp (5.8 km)
- Gazette (8.3 km)
- Tarrington (9.4 km)
- Croxton East (9.5 km)
- Mount Napier (9.9 km)
- Penshurst (13.4 km)
- Warrayure (14.9 km)
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Streets
- Burgers Road (3)
- Gellerts Road (2)
- Langes Lane (1)
- Meadowlands Road (1)
- Mirtschins Road (1)
- Twomeys Bridge Road (8)
- Yatchaw Road (2)
