Bloomfield QLD 4895

Living Here

Bloomfield is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 228 people, with a median age of 53. The typical household earns around $855 a week, with median rent near $155 a week. Most homes are houses. About 76% of households own their home and 16% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Ancestry NS, Australian. 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 Cape York statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Bloomfield itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Bloomfield River State School
• 2 cafés & restaurants

  • Barra & Croc Caffee
  • Blooms Cafe
• 1 supermarket

  • IGA Express
• 2 libraries

  • Bloomfield Library
  • Wujal Wujal Indigenous Knowledge Centre

Getting around. Airport: Bloomfield Airport, 5.1 km north.

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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: 93.4% 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 12.9% · Labour-force participation 43.1%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

1,423 bird observations recorded near Bloomfield — most often seen:

• Bar-shouldered Dove (100)
• Australasian Figbird (84)
• Orange-footed Scrubfowl (74)
• Laughing Kookaburra (72)
• Yellow Oriole (70)
• Mistletoebird (64)
• Black Butcherbird (62)
• Torresian Imperial-pigeon (62)
• Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (58)
• Varied Triller (55)
• Forest Kingfisher (50)
• Metallic Starling (50)
• Whistling Kite (50)

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 Bloomfield:

• Degarra (3 km)
• Wujal Wujal (4.1 km)
• Rossville (21.3 km)
• Cape Tribulation (22.3 km)
• Thornton Beach (29.8 km)
• Diwan (31.3 km)
• Upper Daintree (35.1 km)
• Forest Creek (36.3 km)

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