Burges WA 6302
15 addresses · 3 streets
Durack Electorate › York LGA › Burges · 88 km from Perth
Living Here
Burges is a suburb of Western Australia, home to about 11 people, with a median age of 71. The typical household earns around $1,062 a week, with median rent near $288 a week. Most homes are houses. About 43% of households own their home and 57% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Dutch, Irish. 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 York - Beverley statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Burges itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 Catholic church
1 hospital
1 place to stay
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: 7.8% 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 | 7.8% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 15.3% |
Demographics
Population by age in Burges
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 3 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 3 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Burges
| House | 5 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Burges
| English | 6 |
|---|---|
| Dutch | 3 |
| Irish | 3 |
| Australian | 0 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Burges
| Owned | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 4 |
| Other | 0 |
Commute to work in Burges
| Car | 5 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
2,606 bird observations recorded near Burges — most often seen:
- Western Australian Raven (178)
- Western Brown Honeyeater (141)
- Grey Teal (140)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (134)
- South-western Singing Honeyeater (132)
- Twenty-eight Parrot (131)
- Eurasian Coot (130)
- Pacific Black Duck (110)
- Western Striated Pardalote (109)
- Mainland Tree Martin (108)
- Australian Shelduck (104)
- White-faced Heron (92)
- Western Galah (87)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Burges
- South-western Australian Magpie (83)
- Hoary-headed Grebe (74)
- Australasian Grebe (73)
- Southern Magpie-lark (68)
- Western Welcome Swallow (68)
- South-western Grey Fantail (61)
- Western Crested Pigeon (60)
- Southern Rufous Whistler (59)
- South-west Western Gerygone (56)
- Western Pied Butcherbird (56)
- Western Red Wattlebird (56)
- Western Grey Shrike-thrush (54)
- Mainland Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (52)
- Western Yellow-rumped Thornbill (51)
- Black-fronted Dotterel (47)
- Little Pied Cormorant (47)
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill (45)
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 Burges:
- Quellington (5.9 km)
- York (6.1 km)
- Cold Harbour (7.8 km)
- Daliak (8.2 km)
- Wilberforce (8.6 km)
- Balladong (9.5 km)
- Mount Hardey (10.5 km)
- Malebelling (11.2 km)
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Streets
- Burges Siding Road (2)
- North Road (3)
- Spencers Brook-york Road (10)