Friday Pocket QLD 4855
23 addresses · 6 streets
Kennedy Electorate › Cassowary Coast LGA › Friday Pocket · 1290 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Friday Pocket is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 39 people, with a median age of 47. The typical household earns around $725 a week, with median rent near $260 a week. Most homes are houses. About 83% of households own their home and 17% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Ancestry NS, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Johnstone statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Friday Pocket itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 café or restaurant
1 hospital
1 service station
1 golf club
2 places to stay
Getting around. Airport: Innisfail Aerodrome, 31.1 km north.
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: 56.2% 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 | 56.2% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 72.5% |
Demographics
Population by age in Friday Pocket
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 7 |
| 35-44 | 4 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 8 |
| 65-74 | 5 |
| 75-84 | 6 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Friday Pocket
| House | 14 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Friday Pocket
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 4 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Friday Pocket
| English | 15 |
|---|---|
| Ancestry NS | 11 |
| Irish | 8 |
| Australian | 7 |
| Dutch | 6 |
| Scottish | 5 |
Housing tenure in Friday Pocket
| Owned | 9 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 10 |
| Rented | 4 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Friday Pocket
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Friday Pocket
| Car | 12 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 7 |
Top countries of birth in Friday Pocket
| South Africa | 3 |
|---|
Languages used at home in Friday Pocket
| Afrikaans | 3 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
540 bird observations recorded near Friday Pocket — most often seen:
- Southern Cassowary (46)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (36)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (33)
- Masked Lapwing (26)
- Southern Laughing Kookaburra (22)
- Wet Tropics Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (22)
- North-eastern Black Butcherbird (21)
- Eastern Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (19)
- Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (18)
- Australasian Figbird (17)
- Magpie-lark (16)
- Common Myna (15)
- Laughing Kookaburra (15)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Friday Pocket
- Olive-backed Sunbird (15)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (15)
- Southern Magpie-lark (15)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (15)
- Spectacled Monarch (15)
- Varied Triller (15)
- Australian Swiftlet (14)
- Eastern Rainbow Lorikeet (14)
- Green Figbird (14)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (14)
- Chestnut-breasted Munia (13)
- Forest Kingfisher (13)
- Welcome Swallow (13)
- Wet Tropics Green Oriole (13)
- Black Kite (12)
- North-eastern Spangled Drongo (12)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (12)
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 Friday Pocket:
- Maadi (1.8 km)
- Granadilla (2.4 km)
- Shell Pocket (3.3 km)
- El Arish (3.8 km)
- Djarawong (4.4 km)
- Maria Creeks (4.4 km)
- Jaffa (6.1 km)
- East Feluga (6.5 km)
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Streets
- Banana Road (3)
- Boundary Road (1)
- Bruce Highway (3)
- Dixon Road (5)
- Friday Pocket Road (9)
- Tains Road (2)
