Local residents travel to Kilmore East for train services, children to Pyalong, Kilmore, Willomavin or Broadford for their education and the nearest recreation and sporting facilities are at Kilmore and Pyalong.

According to the latest Census (2021) High Camp had a population of 122 with a median age of 46, (eight years above the Victorian and Australian median age of 38) with most listing their ancestry as English, Scottish and Irish.

High Camp is zoned farming by Mitchell Shire and farming still dominates life today. Most landholdings are large plots, some farmed with sheep and cattle, while others are lifestyle properties owned by people drawn to the beauty and serenity of the bush. A significant part of High Camp is the conservation precinct to the west of Back Creek Road and what was, after settlement, Crawfords, with several properties being Trust for Nature properties.

This conservation precinct covers eight different sets of landholders and 650 hectares of land. The conservation covenants are voluntary but binding agreements that permanently protect the natural and cultural values of this land. These covenanted lands play an important role in protecting threatened species, native plants and significant habitats and also support restoring the land to the biodiversity which existed here for thousands of years.

Today High Camp’s greatest public asset is its Flora Reserve which provides a wonderful display of native vegetation, dominated by mixed eucalyptus, with varied wattles and a ground cover of native grasses and wildflowers. The 11-hectare parcel of crown land  is protected under a Vegetation Protection Overlay in the Mitchell Shire Planning Scheme and provides important bio links for native fauna.

The reserve is dominated by Valley Healthy Forest vegetation. This is significant because this ecological vegetation class is poorly represented in reserves and on private land within the Mitchell Shire. Native mammals, including wombats and kangaroos, have been spotted throughout the reserve as well as the endangered golden sun moth. There are several old trees with hollows which is encouraging a diverse range of native birdlife.

The soon to be constructed High Camp Picnic Reserve will be a new chapter in the history of High Camp and a wonderful destination for walkers, cyclists, and day visitors and perhaps, in the future, cyclists and walkers travelling between Kilmore and Heathcote along an extended recreational rail trail.

Volunteers are giving their time to working bees, clearing years of overgrowth and fallen tree branches at the neglected site adjacent to the existing High Camp Flora Reserve. After many hours of sawing, pruning and hauling branches, the shape of the original platform is slowly emerging.