Canbelego, NSW
By Lauren McCaleb · Reviewed by Dylan Duncan ·
More advantaged than the national average
Canbelego is more socio-economically advantaged than about 66% of the 14,462 Australian suburbs we score, based on the ABS SEIFA index (raw score 1015, where about 1000 is the national average).
A socio-economic measure from ABS Census data — not a measure of how good a suburb is to live in or visit. How we calculate this.
Is Canbelego a good place to live?
There’s no single answer — it depends on what matters to you. So instead of one mystery number, we break it down: a transparent score on each part of life we can back with public data, and an honest “not yet” on the parts we can’t.
Strong on the data we score
A weighted blend of the 1 component we can score for Canbelego from public data. It sits alongside — and reconciles with — the socio-economic Suburb Score above; it is a transparent read, not a complete verdict.
Socio-economic advantage
66/100More advantaged than the national average
More advantaged than the national average — the same ABS SEIFA-based Suburb Score (66/100) shown above. Income, education and occupation, as published by the ABS. · ABS SEIFA 2021
Not yet scored
We’d rather leave these open than publish a number we can’t stand behind. Here’s where each one stands.
- Housing affordabilityNot scored — no ABS Census median-rent figure for this suburb.
- Amenities & accessNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap amenity mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- Green spaceNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap green-space mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- TransportNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap public-transport mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- SchoolsNot scored yet — school performance (ACARA / ICSEA) needs a data-reuse licence cleared before we can publish it.
- SafetyNot scored yet — Australia has no single open crime dataset and safety data carries defamation and legal care, so it is gated pending a go/no-go and will be data-only when added.
- CommunityNot scored yet — we won't reduce community to a number from a proxy. We'd rather leave it open than publish an invented value judgement.
A transparent read on public data, not a verdict — and not a measure of any person or community. See our methodology for how each component is worked out and why some aren’t scored yet.
Canbelego at a glance
- Population (2021)
- 54
- Median age
- 36
- Median weekly household income
- $1,125
- SEIFA score
- 1015
- Local government area
- Cobar
- Coordinates
- -31.5220, 146.2500
Map of Canbelego
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Housing & property in Canbelego
What it costs to live in Canbelego and how residents hold their homes, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census.
- Median mortgage
- $6,500
- per month
- Owner-occupied
- 66%
- of dwellings
- Rented
- 0%
- of dwellings
The full tenure and dwelling-type breakdown is in the Canbelego demographics section below.
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021. © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. See our methodology.
Canbelego demographics (2021 Census)
The figures below profile Canbelego using the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census; every percentage is a share of a clearly stated Census count, so each one traces back to the source. At a glance, the largest age group is young adults (25–44) at 34% and 12% of residents were born overseas.
Age profile
| Age group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Children (0–14) | 8 | 14% |
| Youth (15–24) | 7 | 12% |
| Young adults (25–44) | 20 | 34% |
| Mid-life (45–64) | 11 | 19% |
| Seniors (65+) | 13 | 22% |
Share of the 59 people counted by age.
Housing and households
| Tenure | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Owned outright | 11 | 52% |
| Owned with a mortgage | 3 | 14% |
| Rented | 0 | 0% |
| Dwelling type | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | 14 | 100% |
| Townhouses & semis | 0 | 0% |
| Flats & apartments | 0 | 0% |
Tenure and dwelling shares are of the roughly 14 occupied private dwellings in Canbelego.
- Average household size
- 2.2 people
- Median weekly family income
- $2,250
- Median weekly personal income
- $1,174
Community and culture
- Born overseas
- 5 (12%)
- Speaks a language other than English at home
- 5 (11%)
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
- 3 (6%)
Work and education
- Completed Year 12
- 12 (32%)
- Labour-force participation
- 71.4%
- Employed full-time
- 25
- Employed part-time
- 0
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021 (General Community Profile, by Suburb and Locality). © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. How we group bands and derive each share is set out on our methodology page.
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Common questions about Canbelego
Is Canbelego a good place to live?
There's no single answer, so we score what the public data can back. On socio-economic advantage, Canbelego rates 66/100 overall (Strong on the data we score). Public transport, schools and safety aren't scored yet — see our methodology for why.
Where is Canbelego?
Canbelego is a suburb of New South Wales, Australia, in the Cobar local government area.
What is the population of Canbelego?
At the 2021 Census, Canbelego had a population of about 54.
Is Canbelego an advantaged area?
Canbelego has an ABS SEIFA score of 1015, where about 1000 is the national average — higher scores indicate greater relative socio-economic advantage. That gives it a Suburb Score of 66 out of 100 — more socio-economically advantaged than about 66% of Australian suburbs.
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