IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 1,072
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 9 of 10
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Housing
Bumbalong
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Bumbalong is a bushland suburb of Snowy Monaro.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Bumbalong.
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Bumbalong from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $825k.
People & housing
Population
3
Median age
54 yrs
Income / person / wk
$1,124
Socio-economic profile
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 1,092
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 10 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 1,118
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 10 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 1,051
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 9 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 8 of 10
Scores are standardised across Australia to a mean of 1,000 and a standard deviation of 100. Deciles run from 1 (most disadvantaged) to 10 (least disadvantaged).
Source: ABS SEIFA 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
Terrain & hazard exposure
Median elevation
963 m
range 643–1588 m
Land below 5 m
0%
0% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. No flood map lodged in the NSW planning instruments for most of this suburb; most councils keep theirs in a development control plan. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled.
Planning & zoning
Zoning mix (share of the suburb's land)
Show on map →- Conservation98%
- Rural1.0%
0.9% of the suburb sits outside any mapped zone (typically unzoned roads, water or land outside the scheme), so the shares add up to 99%.
In a heritage area
0%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
0
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Planning instrument: Cooma-Monaro Local Environmental Plan 2013. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Source: NSW EPI Land Zoning; NSW EPI Heritage.
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 41.4 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Snowy Monaro
- Population
- 22,396 (2025) · +0.4% in a year
- Area / density
- 15,165 km² · 1/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 43 · $1,593/wk household income · $300/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $590k
- Federal grants
- $12.84M in 2025-26 · $573/resident
- Website
- snowymonaro.nsw.gov.au/Home
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Eden-Monaro
- Federal MP
- Kristy McBain (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 57% 2PP
- State electorate
- Monaro
- State MP
- Steve Whan (ALP)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Flood, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY 4.0); NSW Bush Fire Prone Land, NSW Rural Fire Service (CC BY 4.0); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Land Zoning, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Heritage, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.