IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 924
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 2 of 10
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Housing
White Cliffs
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
White Cliffs is a bushland suburb of Central Darling.
Household income
$617/wk2nd pctile
of 4,352 NSW suburbs
Amenity score
16/10058th pctile
of 2,112 rated NSW suburbs
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for White Cliffs.
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for White Cliffs from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $825k.
How it compares
Household income / wk2nd 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
156
Median age
56 yrs
Income / person / wk
$472
Household income / wk
$617
▼ 61% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$90
Mortgage / month
$433
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 9%
- −24 pts vs NSW
- Living alone
- 61%
- +36 pts vs NSW
- Unemployment
- 4%
- −1 pts vs NSW
- In the labour force
- 54%
- −5 pts vs NSW
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 7%
- −21 pts vs NSW
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 33%
- +10 pts vs NSW
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 16%
- +3 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
79 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 33%
- Flat or apartment 0%
- Semi, terrace & other 67%
NSW: 65% separate houses · 22% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 49%
- Mortgaged 9%
- Rented 13%
- Other & not stated 29%
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 924
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 2 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 946
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 2 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 946
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 4 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 3 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
147 m
range 78–386 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
The statewide zoning map covers only 37% of this suburb; the rest is planned under an instrument that map does not carry, so no zoning mix or heritage figure is given for it.
Planning instrument: Central Darling Local Environmental Plan 2012. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Source: NSW EPI Land Zoning.
Local amenities
Schools
1
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
2
Parks
2
Libraries
0
GP clinics
1
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
141.1 km
Nearest train
245.5 km
Nearest hospital
141.1 km
Distance to coast
563 km
Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 40%
- Top language at home
- English only
- No religion
- 40%
- Born overseas
- 13%
- English only at home
- 97%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 1 / 0 / 0
- Primary / Secondary
- 1 / 0
- Nearest secondary
- 146.1 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Central Darling · 80% of residents
- Also spans
- Unincorporated NSW (20%)
- Population
- 1,773 (2025) · -0.2% in a year
- Area / density
- 53,492 km² · 0/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 42 · $988/wk household income · $153/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $85k
- Federal grants
- $8.90M in 2025-26 · $5,018/resident
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
- Parkes
- Federal MP
- Jamie Chaffey (NP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 63% 2PP
- State electorate
- Barwon
- State MP
- Roy Butler (IND)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); ACARA School Locations (CC BY 4.0); © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); 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); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.