Ellis Beach QLD 4879
7 addresses · 1 street
Leichhardt Electorate › Cairns LGA › Ellis Beach · 1415 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Ellis Beach is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 5 people, with a median age of 54. The typical household earns around $725 a week. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Common community backgrounds include English, Irish, Australian.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Clifton Beach - Kewarra Beach statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Ellis Beach itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
2 parks
2 beaches
Getting around. Train station: Kuranda, 10.1 km south · Airport: Cairns Airport, 19.9 km south-east.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 71.1% 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.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 71.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 94.8% |
Demographics
Unemployment 25% · Labour-force participation 57.1%
Population by age in Ellis Beach
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 3 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Ellis Beach
| House | 0 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 6 |
Households by weekly income in Ellis Beach
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 8 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Ellis Beach
| English | 5 |
|---|---|
| Irish | 5 |
| Australian | 0 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Ellis Beach
| Owned | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Ellis Beach
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
9,948 bird observations recorded near Ellis Beach — most often seen:
- Common Myna (614)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (506)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (504)
- Bush Stone-curlew (485)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (471)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (466)
- Welcome Swallow (454)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (419)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (396)
- Masked Lapwing (372)
- Australasian Figbird (334)
- Crested Tern (334)
- Eastern Rainbow Lorikeet (303)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Ellis Beach
- Mistletoebird (285)
- Hornbill Helmeted Friarbird (272)
- Helmeted Friarbird (270)
- Eastern Peaceful Dove (266)
- Eastern Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (264)
- Metallic Starling (262)
- Laughing Kookaburra (258)
- Peaceful Dove (255)
- Wet Tropics Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (255)
- Southern Magpie-lark (254)
- Olive-backed Sunbird (252)
- North-eastern Spangled Drongo (251)
- Magpie-lark (245)
- Spangled Drongo (228)
- Black Butcherbird (225)
- North-eastern Black Butcherbird (225)
- Yellow Figbird (223)
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 Ellis Beach:
- Palm Cove (2.8 km)
- Clifton Beach (5.2 km)
- Kewarra Beach (7.4 km)
- Macalister Range (8.4 km)
- Trinity Beach (8.6 km)
- Trinity Park (10.6 km)
- Kuranda (10.8 km)
- Wangetti (11.7 km)
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