Coen QLD 4892

Living Here

Coen is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 320 people, with a median age of 31. The typical household earns around $1,237 a week, with median rent near $123 a week. Most homes are houses. About 22% of households own their home and 69% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Australian, Ancestry NS. 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: Coen itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Coen School
• 1 supermarket

  • Armbrust's General Store
• 1 library

  • Coen Library
• 1 service station

  • Caltex

Getting around. Airport: Coen Airport, 21.4 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: 57.9% 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 4.3% · Labour-force participation 57.4%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

2,808 bird observations recorded near Coen — most often seen:

• Torresian Crow (206)
• Pied Currawong (152)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (142)
• Black Kite (140)
• Blue-faced Honeyeater (139)
• Bar-shouldered Dove (132)
• Galah (120)
• Whistling Kite (119)
• Great Bowerbird (117)
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (112)
• Yellow Oriole (110)
• Masked Lapwing (96)
• Little Friarbird (93)

Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.

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