Mount Burges WA 6429
2 addresses · 1 street
O'Connor Electorate › Coolgardie LGA › Mount Burges · 506 km from Perth
Living Here
Mount Burges is a suburb of Western Australia, home to about 116 people, with a median age of 27. The typical household earns around $1,031 a week, with median rent near $228 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 100% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Ancestry NS, Australian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
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: 14.1% 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 | 14.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 48.7% |
Demographics
Unemployment 11.1% · Labour-force participation 31.4%
Population by age in Mount Burges
| 0-4 | 9 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 19 |
| 15-19 | 11 |
| 20-24 | 7 |
| 25-34 | 26 |
| 35-44 | 12 |
| 45-54 | 17 |
| 55-64 | 11 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 4 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Mount Burges
| House | 18 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Mount Burges
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 15 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Mount Burges
| Aboriginal | 72 |
|---|---|
| Ancestry NS | 32 |
| Australian | 20 |
| English | 13 |
| Other | 9 |
| Scottish | 3 |
Housing tenure in Mount Burges
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 18 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Mount Burges
| 0 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Mount Burges
| Car | 13 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 5 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Languages used at home in Mount Burges
| Australian Indigenous | 17 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
62 bird observations recorded near Mount Burges — most often seen:
- Port Lincoln Parrot (5)
- Singing Honeyeater (5)
- White-fronted Honeyeater (5)
- Brown Honeyeater (4)
- Redthroat (4)
- Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (4)
- Southern Whiteface (3)
- Zebra Finch (3)
- Brown Falcon (2)
- Grey Currawong (2)
- Inland Singing Honeyeater (2)
- Mainland Wedge-tailed Eagle (2)
- Tawny Frogmouth (2)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Mount Burges
- White-winged Fairy-wren (2)
- Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (2)
- Australian Ringneck (1)
- Australian Shelduck (1)
- Banded Lapwing (1)
- Chestnut-rumped Thornbill (1)
- Magpie-lark (1)
- Mainland Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (1)
- Purple-crowned Lorikeet (1)
- Red Wattlebird (1)
- South-western Australian Magpie (1)
- South-western Black-faced Woodswallow (1)
- South-western Dusky Woodswallow (1)
- Southern Brown Goshawk (1)
- Southern Crested Bellbird (1)
- Southern Magpie-lark (1)
- Southern Weebill (1)
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 Mount Burges:
- Ora Banda (21.3 km)
- Kanowna (41.9 km)
- Coolgardie (56.8 km)
- Karlkurla (58.5 km)
- Hannans (58.6 km)
- Lamington (59.7 km)
- Yilkari (59.8 km)
- West Lamington (59.8 km)
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