IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 966
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 4 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 4 of 10
For state-level context, explore the New South Wales economy.
Housing
Megan
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Megan is a bushland suburb of Bellingen.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Megan.
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Megan from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $825k.
How it compares
Household income / wk13th percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
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
Population
168
Median age
57 yrs
Income / person / wk
$546
Household income / wk
$1,015
▼ 36% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$238
Mortgage / month
$1,250
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 17%
- −15 pts vs NSW
- Living alone
- 36%
- +11 pts vs NSW
- In the labour force
- 46%
- −13 pts vs NSW
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 16%
- −11 pts vs NSW
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 36%
- +13 pts vs NSW
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 2%
- −11 pts vs NSW
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. NSW figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. 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.
Housing stock
69 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 100%
- Flat or apartment 0%
NSW: 65% separate houses · 22% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 58%
- Mortgaged 23%
- Rented 10%
- Other & not stated 9%
NSW: 31% owned outright · 33% mortgaged · 33% rented
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 970
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 3 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 3 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 970
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 3 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 2 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 1,053
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
758 m
range 578–1030 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
In a heritage area
0%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
4
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Planning instrument: Bellingen Local Environmental Plan 2010. 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.
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 54%
- Top language at home
- English only
- No religion
- 54%
- Born overseas
- 14%
- English only at home
- 100%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 7.6 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Bellingen
- Population
- 13,348 (2025) · +0.3% in a year
- Area / density
- 1,600 km² · 8/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 50 · $1,197/wk household income · $340/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $828k
- Federal grants
- $5.47M in 2025-26 · $410/resident
- Website
- bellingen.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
- Cowper
- Federal MP
- Pat Conaghan (NP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 59% 2PP
- State electorate
- Oxley
- State MP
- Michael Kemp (NAT)
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.