Dauan Island QLD 4875
52 addresses · 1 street
Leichhardt Electorate › Torres Strait Island LGA › Dauan Island · 2289 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Dauan Island is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 131 people, with a median age of 21. The typical household earns around $739 a week, with median rent near $150 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 100% rent. Most workers walk to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Ancestry NS, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2011 → 2021
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
1 library
Getting around. Airport: Saibai Island Airport, 10.1 km north-east.
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: 43.4% 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 | 43.4% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 87.0% |
Demographics
Unemployment 11.6% · Labour-force participation 56.6%
Population by age in Dauan Island
| 0-4 | 18 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 39 |
| 15-19 | 7 |
| 20-24 | 9 |
| 25-34 | 23 |
| 35-44 | 12 |
| 45-54 | 13 |
| 55-64 | 13 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Dauan Island
| House | 31 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Dauan Island
| <$650 | 5 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 9 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Dauan Island
| Other | 120 |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal | 22 |
| Ancestry NS | 15 |
| Scottish | 6 |
| Australian | 5 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Dauan Island
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 26 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Dauan Island
| 0 | 22 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Dauan Island
| Car | 14 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 19 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Languages used at home in Dauan Island
| Australian Indigenous | 100 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
530 bird observations recorded near Dauan Island — most often seen:
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (50)
- Masked Lapwing (44)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (41)
- Crested Tern (30)
- Common Sandpiper (29)
- Whistling Kite (26)
- Eclectus Parrot (24)
- Metallic Starling (22)
- Channel-billed Cuckoo (18)
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow (17)
- Grey-tailed Tattler (17)
- Brown-backed Honeyeater (16)
- Shining Flycatcher (16)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Dauan Island
- Brown-capped Emerald-dove (15)
- Olive-backed Sunbird (15)
- White-bellied Sea-eagle (15)
- Fork-tailed Swift (14)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (14)
- Whimbrel (12)
- Greater Sand Plover (11)
- Eastern Shining Flycatcher (10)
- Little Tern (10)
- Osprey (10)
- Brahminy Kite (8)
- Eastern Reef Egret (8)
- Papuan Mangrove Golden Whistler (8)
- Papuan Torresian Crow (8)
- Red-necked Stint (8)
- Cicadabird (7)
- Golden-headed Cisticola (7)
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 Dauan Island:
- Torres Strait (8.6 km)
- Saibai Island (10.6 km)
- Boigu Island (40.6 km)
- Iama Island (59.5 km)
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Streets
- Main Road (52)