Breakaway QLD 4825

Living Here

Breakaway is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 187 people, with a median age of 32. The typical household earns around $3,799 a week, with median rent near $650 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Ancestry NS. 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 Mount Isa statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Breakaway itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 12 schools

  • Mount Isa Special School
  • Spinifex State College Senior Campus
  • Townview State School
  • Saint Kierans School
  • Sunset State School
  • Healy State School
  • Good Shepherd Catholic College
  • Mount Isa Central State School
  • Saint Josephs School
  • Happy Valley State School

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• 5 parks

  • Prosser Park
  • Gardiner Drive Park
  • Sunset Oval
  • Townview Apex Park
  • Minnie Davis Park
• 1 hospital

  • Mount Isa Base Hospital
• 1 vet

  • Copper City Vet Clinic
• 1 library

  • Mount Isa City Library
• 1 post office

  • Mount Isa Post Shop
• 3 service stations

  • Puma
  • Coles Express
  • United
• 3 gyms & sports centres

  • Copper City Tennis Club Inc
  • Copper City Tennis Club Inc
  • Alex Inch Oval
• 1 golf club

  • Mount Isa Golf Course
• 1 butcher

  • Sunset Butchery
• 7 places to stay

  • Discovery Holiday Parks - Argylla (BIG4)
  • Mount Isa Caravan Park
  • travellers haven
  • Sunset Tourist Park
  • Burke & Wills Motel
  • Mick's Accommodation Club
  • Ibis Styles

Getting around. Train station: Mount Isa, 4.8 km west · Bus interchange: Mount Isa Coaches, 7.8 km north-west · Airport: Mount Isa Airport, 7.9 km north-west.

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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: 3.6% 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

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

18,870 bird observations recorded near Breakaway — most often seen:

• Black Kite (1,098)
• White-plumed Honeyeater (1,050)
• Crested Pigeon (996)
• Magpie-lark (996)
• Rainbow Bee-eater (911)
• Yellow-throated Miner (907)
• Grey-headed Honeyeater (794)
• Red-winged Parrot (794)
• Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (745)
• Willie Wagtail (718)
• Rock Dove (717)
• Varied Lorikeet (662)
• Peaceful Dove (643)

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 Breakaway:

• Fisher (1.1 km)
• Pioneer (2.6 km)
• Townview (2.7 km)
• Sunset (2.9 km)
• The Gap (3.3 km)
• Healy (3.6 km)
• Mornington (3.7 km)
• Menzies (3.9 km)

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