Black Mountain QLD 4563

Living Here

Black Mountain is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 1,560 people, with a median age of 50. The typical household earns around $1,648 a week, with median rent near $440 a week. Most homes are houses. About 92% of households own their home and 7% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Noosa Hinterland statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Black Mountain itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 4 schools

  • Noosa Christian College
  • Cooroy State School
  • Noosa District State High School
  • Pomona State School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Busstop Espresso
• 1 Catholic church

  • Saint Patricks
• 1 hospital

  • Eden Private Hospital
• 1 vet

  • Sunshine Coast Vets
• 1 library

  • Cooroy Library
• 1 gym

  • Cooroy Rugby League Grounds
• 1 golf club

  • Cooroy Golf Course
• 1 hardware store

  • Mitre 10
• 2 places to stay

  • Cooroy Motel
  • Cooroy Luxury Motel Apartments Noosa

Getting around. Train station: Cooroy, 4.5 km east · Airport: Noosa Airport, 19.7 km 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: 59.3% 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 4.2% · Labour-force participation 53.2%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

13,801 bird observations recorded near Black Mountain — most often seen:

• Lewin's Honeyeater (1,171)
• Eastern Whipbird (1,018)
• Bar-shouldered Dove (903)
• Pied Currawong (631)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (621)
• Eastern Yellow Robin (618)
• Australasian Figbird (603)
• Grey Fantail (547)
• Silvereye (499)
• Green Catbird (482)
• Laughing Kookaburra (482)
• Torresian Crow (478)
• Striated Pardalote (441)

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 Black Mountain:

• Cooroy (4.2 km)
• Pomona (5.4 km)
• Federal (6.1 km)
• Ridgewood (6.5 km)
• Lake Macdonald (7.3 km)
• Eerwah Vale (8.5 km)
• Cooroy Mountain (8.7 km)
• Cooran (9.4 km)

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