Eaton QLD 4860

Living Here

Eaton is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 47 people, with a median age of 39. The typical household earns around $2,250 a week, with median rent near $300 a week. Most homes are houses. About 29% of households own their home and 43% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Italian, Ancestry NS, Australian. 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 Innisfail statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Eaton itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 10 schools

  • Innisfail State College
  • Innisfail Diverse Learning Centre
  • Innisfail State School
  • Good Counsel Primary School
  • Good Counsel College
  • Flying Fish Point State School
  • Innisfail East State School
  • Radiant Life College
  • Goondi State School
  • Daradgee Environmental Education Centre
• 2 cafés & restaurants

  • Coffee Club Innisfail
  • Flying Fish Point Cafe
• 1 supermarket

  • Woolworths
• 11 parks

  • Vuleta Park
  • Groom Esplanade
  • Cullinane Park
  • Dalrymple Park
  • Herb Layt Park
  • Fitzgerald Park
  • Jack Fossey Park
  • Dave Dunbar Park (The Corso)
  • Wrights Park
  • Scheu Park

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• 2 beaches

  • Coconuts
  • Flying Fish Point
• 1 Catholic church

  • Mother of Good Counsel Catholic Church
• 2 pharmacies

  • Chemist Warehouse
  • T.McIlrath's
• 1 dentist

  • Riverside Family Dental
• 1 hospital

  • Innisfail Hospital
• 1 library

  • Innisfail Library
• 1 post office

  • Innisfail Post Shop
• 3 service stations

  • BP
  • Mobil
  • Caltex Woolworths
• 1 gym

  • Innisfail Bowls Club
• 1 golf club

  • Innisfail Golf Course
• 6 places to stay

  • Hillside House
  • Moondarra Motel
  • Barrier Reef Motel
  • River Drive Caravan Park
  • BIG4 Innisfail
  • BIG 4 Innisfail Mango Tree Tourist Park

Getting around. Train station: Innisfail, 4 km south-west · Railway halt: Innisfail Mini Rail, 3 km south-west · Airport: Innisfail (Mundoo) Aerodrome, 7.1 km south-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: 16% 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

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

18,053 bird observations recorded near Eaton — most often seen:

• Spotted Turtle-dove (1,151)
• Common Myna (1,125)
• Magpie-lark (1,060)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (1,039)
• Peaceful Dove (968)
• House Sparrow (934)
• Willie Wagtail (931)
• Australasian Figbird (900)
• Masked Lapwing (765)
• Metallic Starling (736)
• Australian White Ibis (637)
• Hornbill Helmeted Friarbird (584)
• Spangled Drongo (549)

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 Eaton:

• Jubilee Heights (1.5 km)
• Coconuts (1.8 km)
• Innisfail Estate (2 km)
• Coquette Point (2.4 km)
• Cullinane (2.4 km)
• Webb (2.9 km)
• Sundown (2.9 km)
• Innisfail (3 km)

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