Coconuts QLD 4860

Living Here

Coconuts is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 216 people, with a median age of 56. The typical household earns around $1,178 a week, with median rent near $255 a week. Most homes are houses. About 62% of households own their home and 38% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. 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 Innisfail statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Coconuts itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 7 schools

  • Flying Fish Point State School
  • Innisfail State College
  • Innisfail Diverse Learning Centre
  • Innisfail State School
  • Good Counsel Primary School
  • Good Counsel College
  • Innisfail East State School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Flying Fish Point Cafe
• 3 parks

  • Scheu Park
  • Worth Park
  • Mira Jones Place
• 2 beaches

  • Coconuts
  • Flying Fish Point
• 1 Catholic church

  • Mother of Good Counsel Catholic Church
• 1 hospital

  • Innisfail Hospital
• 1 library

  • Innisfail Library
• 1 golf club

  • Innisfail Golf Course
• 6 places to stay

  • Hillside House
  • Moondarra Motel
  • Barrier Reef Motel
  • River Drive Caravan Park
  • BIG4 Innisfail
  • BIG 4 Innisfail Mango Tree Tourist Park

Getting around. Train station: Innisfail, 5.5 km south-west · Railway halt: Innisfail Mini Rail, 4.7 km west · Airport: Innisfail (Mundoo) Aerodrome, 8.2 km south-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: 56.2% 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 3.3% · Labour-force participation 47.4%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

17,653 bird observations recorded near Coconuts — most often seen:

• Spotted Turtle-dove (1,105)
• Common Myna (1,098)
• Magpie-lark (1,038)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (1,027)
• Peaceful Dove (949)
• House Sparrow (925)
• Willie Wagtail (909)
• Australasian Figbird (879)
• Masked Lapwing (736)
• Metallic Starling (712)
• Australian White Ibis (622)
• Hornbill Helmeted Friarbird (582)
• Spangled Drongo (534)

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 Coconuts:

• Flying Fish Point (1.4 km)
• Coquette Point (1.6 km)
• Eaton (1.8 km)
• Jubilee Heights (2.9 km)
• Innisfail Estate (3.3 km)
• Webb (3.5 km)
• Cullinane (4.1 km)
• East Innisfail (4.3 km)

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