Sharps Creek, NSW
By Lauren McCaleb · Reviewed by Dylan Duncan ·
More advantaged than the national average
Sharps Creek is more socio-economically advantaged than about 77% of the 14,462 Australian suburbs we score, based on the ABS SEIFA index (raw score 1037, 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 Sharps Creek 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 Sharps Creek 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
77/100More advantaged than the national average
More advantaged than the national average — the same ABS SEIFA-based Suburb Score (77/100) 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.
Sharps Creek at a glance
- Population (2021)
- 13
- Median age
- 42
- Median weekly household income
- $2,250
- SEIFA score
- 1037
- Local government area
- Snowy Valleys
- Coordinates
- -35.3956, 148.0400
Map of Sharps Creek
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Housing & property in Sharps Creek
What it costs to live in Sharps Creek and how residents hold their homes, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census.
- Owner-occupied
- 100%
- of dwellings
- Rented
- 0%
- of dwellings
The full tenure and dwelling-type breakdown is in the Sharps Creek demographics section below.
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021. © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. See our methodology.
Sharps Creek demographics (2021 Census)
The figures below profile Sharps Creek 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 children (0–14) at 46% and 17% of residents were born overseas.
Age profile
| Age group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Children (0–14) | 12 | 46% |
| Youth (15–24) | 0 | 0% |
| Young adults (25–44) | 5 | 19% |
| Mid-life (45–64) | 9 | 35% |
| Seniors (65+) | 0 | 0% |
Share of the 26 people counted by age.
Housing and households
| Tenure | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Owned outright | 3 | 100% |
| Owned with a mortgage | 0 | 0% |
| Rented | 0 | 0% |
| Dwelling type | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | 7 | 100% |
| Townhouses & semis | 0 | 0% |
| Flats & apartments | 0 | 0% |
Tenure and dwelling shares are of the roughly 7 occupied private dwellings in Sharps Creek.
- Average household size
- 4.5 people
- Median weekly family income
- $2,250
- Median weekly personal income
- $1,125
Community and culture
- Born overseas
- 3 (17%)
- Speaks a language other than English at home
- 4 (29%)
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
- 0 (0%)
Work and education
- Completed Year 12
- 6 (86%)
- Labour-force participation
- 77.8%
- Employed full-time
- 0
- Employed part-time
- 5
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 Sharps Creek
Is Sharps Creek a good place to live?
There's no single answer, so we score what the public data can back. On socio-economic advantage, Sharps Creek rates 77/100 overall (Strong on the data we score). Public transport, schools and safety aren't scored yet — see our methodology for why.
Where is Sharps Creek?
Sharps Creek is a suburb of New South Wales, Australia, in the Snowy Valleys local government area.
What is the population of Sharps Creek?
At the 2021 Census, Sharps Creek had a population of about 13.
Is Sharps Creek an advantaged area?
Sharps Creek has an ABS SEIFA score of 1037, where about 1000 is the national average — higher scores indicate greater relative socio-economic advantage. That gives it a Suburb Score of 77 out of 100 — more socio-economically advantaged than about 77% of Australian suburbs.
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