IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 853
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 1 of 10
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Housing
Little Pelican
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Little Pelican is a coastal suburb of Lake Macquarie.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Little Pelican.
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Little Pelican from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $825k.
How it compares
Household income / wk59th percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
Household income / wk
NSW · AU
NSW median suburb $1,583 · AU median suburb $1,562Little Pelican $1,750
Percentiles rank this suburb against New South Wales suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in New South Wales and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Median age
65 yrs
Income / person / wk
$812
Household income / wk
$1,750
▲ 11% vs NSW
Housing stock
4 occupied private dwellings
ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Socio-economic profile
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 891
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 1 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 881
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 1 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 811
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 1 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
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. 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.
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 2.4 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Lake Macquarie
- Population
- 224,540 (2025) · +1.1% in a year
- Area / density
- 649 km² · 346/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 42 · $1,623/wk household income · $375/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $880k
- Federal grants
- $21.21M in 2025-26 · $94/resident
- Website
- lakemac.com.au
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
- Shortland
- Federal MP
- Pat Conroy (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 62% 2PP
- State electorate
- Swansea
- State MP
- Yasmin Catley (ALP)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (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); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.