Cooktown QLD 4895

Living Here

Cooktown is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 2,746 people, with a median age of 44. The typical household earns around $1,215 a week, with median rent near $230 a week. Most homes are houses. About 58% of households own their home and 37% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 2 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: Cooktown itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 café or restaurant

  • Cooktown Cafe
• 1 supermarket

  • Cornett's IGA
• 1 park

  • Anzac Memorial Park
• 1 pharmacy

  • Endeavour Pharmacy
• 1 medical clinic

  • Cooktown Medical Center
• 1 hospital

  • Cooktown Multipurpose Health Service
• 1 library

  • Cooktown Library
• 1 service station

  • Caltex Cooktown
• 1 golf club

  • Cooktown Country Golf Club
• 1 hardware store

  • Cooktown Hardware
• 8 places to stay

  • Big4 Cooktown Holiday Caravan Park
  • YHA Cooktown
  • Cooktown Hotel
  • River Of Gold Motel
  • Sovereign Resort Hotel
  • Cooktown Caravan Park
  • Seaview Motel
  • Four Winds Holiday Units

Getting around. Airport: Cooktown Airport, 5.8 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: 47.8% 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 5.4% · Labour-force participation 50.6%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

67,412 bird observations recorded near Cooktown — most often seen:

• Bar-shouldered Dove (5,644)
• Yellow Oriole (5,122)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (4,300)
• Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (4,065)
• Australasian Figbird (3,843)
• Mistletoebird (3,563)
• Spangled Drongo (2,991)
• Varied Triller (2,896)
• Helmeted Friarbird (2,580)
• Hornbill Helmeted Friarbird (2,416)
• Rainbow Bee-eater (2,152)
• White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike (2,059)
• Comb-crested Jacana (2,023)

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 Cooktown:

• Hope Vale (23.8 km)
• Rossville (30.4 km)
• Bloomfield (51.1 km)
• Wujal Wujal (53.8 km)
• Degarra (54 km)
• Lakeland (61.9 km)

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