Carstairs QLD 4806
107 addresses · 11 streets
Dawson Electorate › Burdekin LGA › Carstairs · 1038 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Carstairs is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 91 people, with a median age of 52. The typical household earns around $2,208 a week, with median rent near $175 a week. Most homes are houses. About 83% of households own their home and 17% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Italian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Burdekin statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Carstairs itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
2 hospitals
1 library
1 gym
1 golf club
2 mechanics
3 places to stay
Getting around. Train station: Home Hill, 4.2 km west · Airport: Ayr Airport, 14.8 km north-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: 2.5% 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 | 2.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 37.2% |
Demographics
Population by age in Carstairs
| 0-4 | 4 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 8 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 11 |
| 25-34 | 6 |
| 35-44 | 9 |
| 45-54 | 20 |
| 55-64 | 15 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 12 |
| 85+ | 4 |
Dwelling types in Carstairs
| House | 35 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Carstairs
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 7 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 24 |
| $3,000+ | 8 |
Top ancestries in Carstairs
| Australian | 47 |
|---|---|
| English | 36 |
| Italian | 30 |
| Scottish | 11 |
| Irish | 7 |
| Ancestry NS | 7 |
Housing tenure in Carstairs
| Owned | 22 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 7 |
| Rented | 6 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Carstairs
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 15 |
| 3 | 11 |
| 4+ | 6 |
Commute to work in Carstairs
| Car | 31 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 6 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 8 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,324 bird observations recorded near Carstairs — most often seen:
- Rock Dove (87)
- Magpie-lark (75)
- Black Kite (73)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (72)
- Masked Lapwing (71)
- Australasian Figbird (65)
- Willie Wagtail (61)
- Australian White Ibis (59)
- House Sparrow (56)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (56)
- Australian Magpie (52)
- Crested Pigeon (52)
- Peaceful Dove (50)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Carstairs
- Whistling Kite (45)
- Bush Stone-curlew (43)
- Blue-faced Honeyeater (36)
- Straw-necked Ibis (36)
- Spotted Turtle-dove (35)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (34)
- Brown Honeyeater (33)
- Pied Butcherbird (33)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (29)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (25)
- Southern Magpie-lark (25)
- Eastern Rainbow Lorikeet (24)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (24)
- Little Friarbird (22)
- Chestnut-breasted Munia (17)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (17)
- Green Figbird (17)
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 Carstairs:
- Home Hill (4.1 km)
- Jarvisfield (6.8 km)
- Inkerman (6.9 km)
- Rita Island (7.2 km)
- Mcdesme (7.7 km)
- Fredericksfield (8.7 km)
- Groper Creek (9.1 km)
- Ayr (10.5 km)
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Streets
- Berryman Road (10)
- Ford Road (11)
- Groper Creek Road (16)
- Little Road (2)
- Maryplain Road (13)
- Mcdowell Road (21)
- Old Groper Creek Road (1)
- Ramsden Road (16)
- Rossato Road (6)
- Watt Road (6)
- Woods Road (5)
