Garners Beach QLD 4852
39 addresses · 4 streets
Kennedy Electorate › Cassowary Coast LGA › Garners Beach · 1287 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Garners Beach is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 31 people, with a median age of 54. The typical household earns around $687 a week, with median rent near $190 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Ancestry NS, English. 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: Garners Beach itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 café or restaurant
1 park
1 gym
1 hardware store
Getting around. Bus interchange: Mission Beach, 8.9 km south · Airport: Innisfail Aerodrome, 30.2 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: 81.2% 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 | 81.2% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 71.7% |
Demographics
Unemployment 13.3% · Labour-force participation 53.6%
Population by age in Garners Beach
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 3 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 3 |
| 45-54 | 9 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 5 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Garners Beach
| House | 13 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Garners Beach
| Australian | 15 |
|---|---|
| Other | 8 |
| Ancestry NS | 8 |
| English | 7 |
| Scottish | 6 |
| German | 5 |
Housing tenure in Garners Beach
| Owned | 6 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 4 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Garners Beach
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 6 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Garners Beach
| Car | 5 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
2,871 bird observations recorded near Garners Beach — most often seen:
- Southern Cassowary (166)
- Masked Lapwing (158)
- Eastern Reef Egret (142)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (139)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (131)
- Black Butcherbird (128)
- Australasian Figbird (125)
- Spangled Drongo (122)
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl (121)
- Metallic Starling (117)
- Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (114)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (111)
- Crested Tern (108)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Garners Beach
- Welcome Swallow (105)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (93)
- Varied Triller (81)
- Common Myna (79)
- Laughing Kookaburra (79)
- Bush Stone-curlew (77)
- Helmeted Friarbird (76)
- Magpie-lark (68)
- Australian Swiftlet (63)
- White-bellied Sea-eagle (63)
- Willie Wagtail (61)
- Hornbill Helmeted Friarbird (60)
- Osprey (60)
- Spotted Turtle-dove (58)
- Beach Stone-curlew (57)
- Peaceful Dove (55)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (54)
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 Garners Beach:
- Bingil Bay (1.6 km)
- Midgeree Bar (2.2 km)
- Kurrimine Beach (4.4 km)
- Djiru (5.4 km)
- Mission Beach (5.8 km)
- Maria Creeks (6.2 km)
- Daveson (8.3 km)
- Granadilla (8.4 km)
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Streets
- Bingil Bay Road (1)
- Esplanade (1)
- Garners Beach Road (15)
- Holt Road (22)
