Cooya Beach QLD 4873

Living Here

Cooya Beach is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 523 people, with a median age of 48. The typical household earns around $1,154 a week, with median rent near $265 a week. Most homes are houses. About 67% of households own their home and 31% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, 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 Daintree statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Cooya Beach itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 3 schools

  • Mossman State School
  • Mossman State High School
  • St Augustines School
• 1 park

  • The Jim Holdsworth Park
• 1 beach

  • Newell Beach
• 1 dentist

  • Total Teeth
• 1 hospital

  • Mossman Multipurpose Health Service
• 1 vet

  • Coral Sea Vet Care
• 1 library

  • Mossman Library
• 1 post office

  • Mossman Post Shop
• 1 service station

  • Raintrees Central Servo
• 1 gym

  • Mossman Memorial Bowls Club
• 2 golf clubs

  • Mossman Golf Club
  • Mirage Country Club
• 1 hardware store

  • Mossman Hardware
• 5 places to stay

  • Newell Beach Caravan Park
  • Post Office Hotel
  • Demi View Motel
  • Mossman Resort and Villas
  • Mai Tai Resort

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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: 50.1% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 1.6% · Labour-force participation 56.5%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

19,523 bird observations recorded near Cooya Beach — most often seen:

• Masked Lapwing (1,138)
• Bar-shouldered Dove (1,111)
• White-breasted Woodswallow (1,080)
• Welcome Swallow (970)
• Crested Tern (836)
• Australasian Figbird (822)
• Magpie-lark (768)
• Common Myna (766)
• Australian White Ibis (735)
• Torresian Imperial-pigeon (729)
• Peaceful Dove (711)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (665)
• Spangled Drongo (663)

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 Cooya Beach:

• Bonnie Doon (0.7 km)
• Newell (2.8 km)
• Mossman (3.9 km)
• Killaloe (5.8 km)
• Mossman Gorge (6 km)
• Finlayvale (6.1 km)
• Miallo (6.2 km)
• Cassowary (6.6 km)

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