Home Island OT 6799
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Lingiari Electorate › Cocos Islands LGA › Home Island
Living Here
Home Island is a suburb of Other Territories, home to about 448 people, with a median age of 39. The typical household earns around $2,305 a week, with median rent near $250 a week. Most homes are houses. About 5% of households own their home and 77% rent. Most workers take the tram or ferry to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Ancestry NS, Chinese. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Home Island itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 supermarket
Socio-economic Standing
Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 52.8% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 52.8% |
|---|
Demographics
Unemployment 3.7% · Labour-force participation 46.4%
Population by age in Home Island
| 0-4 | 32 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 73 |
| 15-19 | 11 |
| 20-24 | 31 |
| 25-34 | 50 |
| 35-44 | 61 |
| 45-54 | 27 |
| 55-64 | 78 |
| 65-74 | 50 |
| 75-84 | 30 |
| 85+ | 11 |
Dwelling types in Home Island
| House | 82 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Home Island
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 15 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 18 |
| $3,000+ | 23 |
Top ancestries in Home Island
| Other | 310 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 100 |
| Ancestry NS | 74 |
| Chinese | 10 |
| Irish | 5 |
| Filipino | 4 |
Housing tenure in Home Island
| Owned | 4 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 60 |
| Other | 14 |
Cars per household in Home Island
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 12 |
| 2 | 19 |
| 3 | 17 |
| 4+ | 23 |
Commute to work in Home Island
| Car | 17 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 5 |
| Tram/ferry | 23 |
| Walked | 16 |
| Bicycle | 9 |
| Home | 0 |
Top countries of birth in Home Island
| Malaysia | 21 |
|---|---|
| Singapore | 7 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
335 bird observations recorded near Home Island — most often seen:
- White Tern (42)
- Nankeen Night-heron (27)
- Lesser Frigatebird (26)
- Great Frigatebird (23)
- Brown Booby (20)
- Eastern Reef Egret (19)
- Red-footed Booby (18)
- Herald Petrel (17)
- Masked Booby (17)
- Red-tailed Tropicbird (17)
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater (17)
- White-tailed Tropicbird (17)
- Indian Ocean White-tailed Tropicbird (15)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Home Island
- White-breasted Waterhen (14)
- Cocos Keeling Buff-banded Rail (11)
- Common Sandpiper (7)
- Birds (5)
- Green Junglefowl (4)
- Common Noddy (3)
- Intermediate Egret (3)
- Grey-tailed Tattler (2)
- Oriental Cuckoo (2)
- Red Junglefowl (2)
- Arctic Warbler (1)
- Black Bittern (1)
- Blue Rock-thrush (1)
- Grey Wagtail (1)
- Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo (1)
- Large Hawk-cuckoo (1)
- Lesser Crested Tern (1)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Home Island:
- West Island (10.7 km)
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Streets
- Jalan Bunga Kangkong (43)
- Jalan Bunga Mawar (13)
- Jalan Bunga Melati (1)
- Jalan Kebun (4)
- Jalan Kembang Geribang (9)
- Jalan Kembang Molok (25)
- Jalan Kipas (2)
- Jalan Masjid (2)
- Jalan Pantai (16)