Basin Pocket QLD 4305

Living Here

Basin Pocket is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 931 people, with a median age of 37. The typical household earns around $1,286 a week, with median rent near $275 a week. Most homes are houses. About 63% of households own their home and 35% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. 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 Ipswich - East statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Basin Pocket itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 27 schools

  • Ipswich North State School
  • Ipswich East State School
  • Ipswich Girls' Grammar School
  • Ipswich Special School
  • St Mary's Primary School
  • St Mary's College
  • St Joseph's Primary School
  • St Edmund's College
  • Tivoli State School
  • Ipswich Central State School

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• 50 cafés & restaurants

  • Trackside Cafe
  • La Parilla
  • Cafe 93
  • Sushi Go
  • The Coffee Club
  • Rashays
  • Muffin Break
  • Jamaica Blue
  • Bucking Bull
  • Nando's

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• 9 supermarkets

  • Market Organics
  • Aldi
  • Woolworths
  • Coles
  • Aldi
  • IGA Pine Mountain Road
  • Aldi
  • Woolworths
  • Woolworths
• 27 parks

  • Cribb Park
  • Browns Park
  • North Ipswich Wetlands
  • North Ipswich Reserve
  • Bob Gamble Park
  • River Heart Parklands
  • Cunningham's Knoll
  • Great Lawn
  • Queens Park
  • Mihi Junction Reserve

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• 3 Catholic churches

  • St Mary's
  • Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church
  • St. Michael's
• 6 pharmacies

  • Priceline Pharmacy
  • Healthyworld Pharmacy
  • FriendlyCare Pharmacy
  • TerryWhite Chemmart
  • Chemist Warehouse
  • Foote's Pharmacy
• 15 doctors & medical clinics

  • Ipswich Family Podiatry
  • Exact Radiology Clinics
  • Ipswich Health Centre
  • myhealth Medical Centre
  • East Ipswich Specialist Clinic
  • Limestone Medical Centre
  • East Clinic
  • Scope Sports Injury and Exercise Clinic
  • Station Road Medical Centre
  • Ipswich Day Hospital

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• 4 dentists

  • Everdent
  • Bupa Dental
  • Ipswich Community Dental Clinic
  • Limestone Dental
• 1 physiotherapist

  • Prime Performance Physiotherapy
• 5 optometrists

  • Laubman & Pank
  • Specsavers
  • OPSM
  • Sunny Line
  • Eyemode Eyewear
• 5 hospitals

  • St Andrews Private Hospital
  • Ipswich Hospital
  • Ipswich Hospice Care
  • The Park Centre for Mental Health
  • Gailes Community Care Unit
• 2 vets

  • Greencross Vets
  • Pine Mountain Vet Clinic
• 2 childcare & kindergartens

  • Kaleidoscope Kids Early Learning Centres - Booval
  • Bindarra
• 2 libraries

  • Ipswich Central Library
  • Building H
• 2 post offices

  • Australia Post
  • Booval Post Office
• 21 service stations

  • Shell
  • 7-Eleven
  • BP North Ipswich
  • Shell
  • Shell
  • Ampol
  • Ampol
  • Woolworths Petrol
  • 7-Eleven
  • Caltex

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• 16 gyms & sports centres

  • Plus Fitness
  • Goodlife Health Club
  • Fitstop
  • McMahon's Swim Factory
  • Anytime Fitness
  • YMCA Ipswich Community Centre
  • Ipswich Wing Chun Kung Fu Academy
  • View Fitness
  • Club Lime Ipswich
  • Bundamba Swimming Centre

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• 4 golf clubs

  • Sandy Gallop Golf Course
  • Ipswich Golf Driving Range
  • Ipswich Country Club
  • Karana Downs Golf Course
• 2 dog parks

  • Cribb Park Leash-Free Area
  • Wuluraka Dog Park
• 8 bakeries

  • Saigon Bakehouse
  • Take-Out Time
  • Richard Bakery
  • Bakers Delight
  • Our Bakery Rules
  • Gluten Free 4 U Bakehouse
  • Ray's Patisserie
  • Booval Bakery
• 1 butcher

  • Mega Meats
• 7 hardware stores

  • Bunnings Warehouse
  • Total Tools
  • Central Mowers Ipswich
  • Bunnings Warehouse
  • Ipswich City Bearings & Transmission
  • Clark Rubber
  • Sydney Tools
• 10 hairdressers

  • Ali for Hair
  • Mick's Barber
  • Stu-dio
  • Moe & Co.
  • Stefan
  • Just Cuts
  • HeavyW8 Barbers
  • Bearded Hippo
  • Encore Hair
  • Men's Business Barber Shop
• 10 beauty salons

  • New Nails Salon
  • ProfessioNAILS
  • Beauty Stop
  • Hollywood Nails & Footspa
  • Ella Baché
  • TN Nails
  • Elizabeth's Salon
  • Rose Day Spa
  • amiche
  • Melody Nails and Spa
• 21 mechanics

  • Ipswich Panel & Paint
  • Quality Tyres and Wheels
  • North Ipswich Mechanical
  • Bridgestone Select
  • O'Brien AutoGlass
  • mycar
  • Ultra Tune
  • Riverside Paint and Panel
  • Goodyear
  • Ipswich Muffler Shop & Mechanical

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• 1 electrician

  • Strybos and Sons
• 3 carpenters

  • Totalspan Sheds
  • Titan Garages and Carports
  • Cedar Sales
• 10 places to stay

  • Motel Monaco
  • Ipswich Heritage Lodge
  • Central Motel Ipswich
  • Oaks Ipswich Aspire
  • Ipswich Caravan Village
  • City View Hotel
  • Best Western Ipswich
  • Quest Ipswich
  • Ipswich City Motel
  • Racehorse Hotel

Getting around. Train station: East Ipswich, 1 km south-east · Railway halt: Bundamba Racecourse, 3.3 km south-east · Airport: Brisbane Airport, 42.5 km north-east.

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Socio-economic Standing

Greenery

🌳 Tree canopy: 25.2% satellite estimate · 2021

Demographics

Unemployment 9.8% · Labour-force participation 58.6%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

35,859 bird observations recorded near Basin Pocket — most often seen:

• Torresian Crow (2,128)
• Noisy Miner (2,009)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (1,953)
• Australian Magpie (1,819)
• Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (1,541)
• Laughing Kookaburra (1,487)
• Pied Butcherbird (1,412)
• Striated Pardalote (1,314)
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (1,278)
• Brown Honeyeater (1,172)
• Grey Butcherbird (1,152)
• Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (1,120)
• Blue-faced Honeyeater (1,108)

Nearby Suburbs

The closest suburbs to Basin Pocket:

• Moores Pocket (0.9 km)
• East Ipswich (1 km)
• North Ipswich (1.3 km)
• Tivoli (1.3 km)
• Newtown (1.7 km)
• Woodend (1.8 km)
• North Booval (2.1 km)
• Ipswich (2.2 km)

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