Carpendale QLD 4344
57 addresses · 10 streets
Wright Electorate › Lockyer Valley LGA › Carpendale · 88 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Carpendale is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 110 people, with a median age of 48. The typical household earns around $1,562 a week, with median rent near $350 a week. Most homes are houses. About 71% of households own their home and 15% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, German. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Lockyer Valley - West statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Carpendale itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 Catholic church
1 hospital
1 place to stay
Getting around. Train station: Helidon, 4.9 km north-west · Airport: Toowoomba City Aerodrome, 23.2 km west.
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: 9.1% 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.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 9.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 22.3% |
Demographics
Population by age in Carpendale
| 0-4 | 12 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 6 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 7 |
| 25-34 | 13 |
| 35-44 | 7 |
| 45-54 | 12 |
| 55-64 | 20 |
| 65-74 | 11 |
| 75-84 | 11 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Carpendale
| House | 41 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Carpendale
| <$650 | 5 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 7 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 18 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Carpendale
| English | 57 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 31 |
| German | 31 |
| Irish | 26 |
| Scottish | 15 |
| Aboriginal | 7 |
Housing tenure in Carpendale
| Owned | 19 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 10 |
| Rented | 6 |
| Other | 6 |
Cars per household in Carpendale
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 15 |
| 3 | 9 |
| 4+ | 7 |
Commute to work in Carpendale
| Car | 48 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 8 |
Top countries of birth in Carpendale
| England | 4 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
10,391 bird observations recorded near Carpendale — most often seen:
- Double-barred Finch (563)
- Striped Honeyeater (509)
- Pacific Black Duck (472)
- Dusky Moorhen (446)
- Torresian Crow (431)
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (411)
- Mistletoebird (410)
- Willie Wagtail (397)
- Magpie-lark (371)
- Brown Honeyeater (356)
- Common Myna (353)
- Straw-necked Ibis (352)
- Australian Magpie (339)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Carpendale
- Little Pied Cormorant (328)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (316)
- Fairy Martin (302)
- Australian Wood Duck (296)
- Pied Butcherbird (296)
- Australasian Grebe (294)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (294)
- Australian Torresian Crow (293)
- House Sparrow (291)
- Striated Pardalote (291)
- Tawny Grassbird (289)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (288)
- Silvereye (288)
- Peaceful Dove (285)
- Galah (278)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (278)
- Red-backed Fairy-wren (274)
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 Carpendale:
- Lilydale (2.6 km)
- Veradilla (4.2 km)
- Iredale (4.4 km)
- Helidon (4.6 km)
- Grantham (5.1 km)
- Ma Ma Creek (6.1 km)
- Winwill (6.3 km)
- Helidon Spa (6.8 km)
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Streets
- Brassingtons Road (8)
- Brassingtons Road E (1)
- Carpendale Road (8)
- Dougdales Road (2)
- Flagstone Creek Road (19)
- Gormans Road (5)
- Hartz Road (4)
- Klucks Road (3)
- Lamberts Road (6)
- Mahons Road (1)
