Bamaga QLD 4876

Living Here

Bamaga is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 1,186 people, with a median age of 25. The typical household earns around $1,630 a week, with median rent near $120 a week. Most homes are houses. About 1% of households own their home and 98% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Ancestry NS, English. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.

Over time — Census 2011 → 2021

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Northern Peninsual Area State College
• 1 supermarket

  • IBIS Bamaga Supermarket
• 1 hospital

  • Bamaga Hospital
• 2 libraries

  • New Mapoon Indigenous Knowledge Centre
  • Seisia Indigeneous Knowledge Centre
• 1 service station

  • BP Bamaga Service Station
• 1 mechanic

  • Cape York Spares & Repairs
• 2 places to stay

  • Cape York Peninsula Lodge
  • Oasis

Getting around. Airport: Northern Peninsula Airport, 9.1 km south-east.

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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: 83.6% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.

Demographics

Unemployment 9% · Labour-force participation 60.5%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

6,653 bird observations recorded near Bamaga — most often seen:

• Palm Cockatoo (410)
• Bar-shouldered Dove (401)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (357)
• Yellow Oriole (357)
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (355)
• Graceful Honeyeater (310)
• Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (305)
• Masked Lapwing (298)
• Australasian Figbird (264)
• Black Kite (257)
• Spangled Drongo (216)
• Torresian Imperial-pigeon (200)
• Australian Brush-turkey (197)

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 Bamaga:

• New Mapoon (2.9 km)
• Umagico (4.3 km)
• Seisia (4.7 km)
• Injinoo (10 km)
• Prince Of Wales (29.3 km)
• Horn (36.2 km)
• Thursday Island (39.2 km)
• Keriri Island (42.1 km)

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