Pink Lake WA 6450
568 addresses · 31 streets
O'Connor Electorate › Esperance LGA › Pink Lake · 595 km from Perth
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Living Here
Pink Lake is a suburb of Western Australia, home to about 1,042 people, with a median age of 43. The typical household earns around $1,817 a week, with median rent near $300 a week. Most homes are houses. About 85% of households own their home and 13% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Esperance statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Pink Lake itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 Catholic church
1 hospital
2 golf clubs
1 plumber
2 places to stay
Getting around. Airport: Esperance Airport, 19.4 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: 24.8% 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 | 24.8% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 52.8% |
Demographics
Unemployment 2.9% · Labour-force participation 62.5%
Population by age in Pink Lake
| 0-4 | 63 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 157 |
| 15-19 | 65 |
| 20-24 | 41 |
| 25-34 | 88 |
| 35-44 | 128 |
| 45-54 | 173 |
| 55-64 | 164 |
| 65-74 | 115 |
| 75-84 | 37 |
| 85+ | 10 |
Dwelling types in Pink Lake
| House | 302 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 29 |
Households by weekly income in Pink Lake
| <$650 | 61 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 63 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 90 |
| $3,000+ | 68 |
Top ancestries in Pink Lake
| Australian | 474 |
|---|---|
| English | 406 |
| Ancestry NS | 127 |
| Irish | 91 |
| Scottish | 90 |
| Other | 58 |
Housing tenure in Pink Lake
| Owned | 138 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 143 |
| Rented | 42 |
| Other | 6 |
Cars per household in Pink Lake
| 0 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 64 |
| 2 | 114 |
| 3 | 82 |
| 4+ | 62 |
Commute to work in Pink Lake
| Car | 370 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 6 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 9 |
| Bicycle | 3 |
| Home | 31 |
Top countries of birth in Pink Lake
| England | 50 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 33 |
| South Africa | 12 |
| United States | 8 |
| Germany | 4 |
| Indonesia | 4 |
Languages used at home in Pink Lake
| German | 12 |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | 11 |
| Australian Indigenous | 5 |
| Indonesian | 5 |
| Thai | 4 |
| Spanish | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,175 bird observations recorded near Pink Lake — most often seen:
- Western Wattlebird (121)
- New Holland Honeyeater (78)
- Red Wattlebird (64)
- Silvereye (58)
- Common Bronzewing (54)
- Australian Magpie (46)
- Red-capped Plover (46)
- Australian Raven (45)
- South-western Australian Magpie (45)
- Banded Stilt (43)
- Yellow-throated Miner (43)
- Magpie-lark (39)
- Willie Wagtail (36)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Pink Lake
- Australian Shelduck (35)
- Silver Gull (35)
- Grey Butcherbird (34)
- Pacific Gull (34)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (33)
- Crested Pigeon (30)
- Red-capped Parrot (29)
- Western Hooded Dotterel (29)
- Welcome Swallow (28)
- South-western New Holland Honeyeater (25)
- Laughing Turtle-dove (22)
- South-western Spotted Scrubwren (22)
- Western Silvereye (22)
- Hooded Plover (21)
- Western Spinebill (20)
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (19)
- Western Red Wattlebird (19)
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 Pink Lake:
- Nulsen (4.9 km)
- Sinclair (5.3 km)
- West Beach (6.1 km)
- Esperance (6.5 km)
- Monjingup (6.6 km)
- Chadwick (6.8 km)
- Castletown (8.7 km)
- Windabout (9.7 km)
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Streets
- Alana Street (2)
- Barook Road (50)
- Barron Close (15)
- Blizard Road (1)
- Canning Drive (25)
- Cherry Well Road (15)
- Collier Road (23)
- Common Road (6)
- Connolly Street (12)
- Downes Street (36)
- Dunkley Circuit (37)
- Eleven Mile Beach Road (34)
- Esperance Parade (9)
- Garden Road (10)
- Helms Drive (51)
- Iona Street (1)
- Keenan Road (9)
- Kingsmill Retreat (6)
- Longbottom Lane (23)
- Mayfield Place (2)
- Mississippi Bend (21)
- Nicholson Drive (2)
- Pink Lake Drive (3)
- Pink Lake Road (23)
- Princess Street (56)
- Sanctuary Crescent (36)
- South Coast Highway (8)
- Spencer Road (13)
- The Getaway (9)
- Tuart Forest Grove (22)
- Valley Road (8)
