Dunwich QLD 4183

Living Here

Dunwich is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 737 people, with a median age of 47. The typical household earns around $1,111 a week, with median rent near $294 a week. Most homes are houses. About 68% of households own their home and 32% 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 Redland Islands statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Dunwich itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Dunwich State School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Little Ship Club
• 1 supermarket

  • Foodworks
• 1 park

  • RSL Memorial Garden
• 1 Catholic church

  • St Paul of the Cross Church
• 1 medical clinic

  • Marie Rose Centre
• 1 library

  • Dunwich Library
• 1 gym

  • Little Ships Club
• 1 golf club

  • North Stradbroke Island Golf Club
• 1 bakery

  • Straddie Bakery
• 1 butcher

  • Stradbroke Island Butchery

Getting around. Ferry wharf: One Mile Jetty, 650 m north-west · Airport: Dunwich Airport, 3.2 km south-east.

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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: 37.6% 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 2.3% · Labour-force participation 51.5%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

10,809 bird observations recorded near Dunwich — most often seen:

• Australian Pied Oystercatcher (721)
• Masked Lapwing (541)
• Torresian Crow (535)
• Silver Gull (530)
• Welcome Swallow (504)
• Australian Pelican (501)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (497)
• Australian White Ibis (473)
• Brown Honeyeater (467)
• Australian Wood Duck (446)
• Bush Stone-curlew (443)
• Noisy Friarbird (395)
• Pied Cormorant (331)

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 Dunwich:

• North Stradbroke Island (5 km)
• Coochiemudlo Island (10.9 km)
• Amity (11.7 km)
• Macleay Island (13.3 km)
• Cleveland (14 km)
• Lamb Island (14.4 km)
• Point Lookout (14.5 km)
• Ormiston (15 km)

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