Glen Boughton QLD 4871
24 addresses · 4 streets
Kennedy Electorate › Cairns LGA › Glen Boughton · 1385 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Glen Boughton is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 19 people, with a median age of 47. The typical household earns around $2,749 a week, with median rent near $138 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 English, Chinese, Australian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Gordonvale - Trinity statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Glen Boughton itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 library
1 golf club
2 hardware stores
1 plumber
Getting around. Train station: Cairns, 5.5 km west · Bus interchange: Cairns City bus station, 5.4 km north-west · Ferry wharf: Reef Fleet Terminal, 4.8 km north-west · Airport: Cairns Airport, 10.3 km north-west.
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: 66.5% 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 | 66.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 74.9% |
Demographics
Population by age in Glen Boughton
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 3 |
| 45-54 | 4 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 6 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Glen Boughton
| House | 5 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Glen Boughton
| English | 7 |
|---|---|
| Chinese | 5 |
| Australian | 4 |
| Italian | 4 |
| Ancestry NS | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
Housing tenure in Glen Boughton
| Owned | 5 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 4 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Glen Boughton
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Glen Boughton
| Car | 3 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
11,663 bird observations recorded near Glen Boughton — most often seen:
- Bush Stone-curlew (798)
- Common Myna (723)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (679)
- Peaceful Dove (661)
- Welcome Swallow (633)
- Willie Wagtail (559)
- Masked Lapwing (499)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (492)
- Silver Gull (489)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (486)
- Australasian Figbird (480)
- Crested Tern (456)
- Rock Dove (408)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Glen Boughton
- House Sparrow (398)
- Magpie-lark (370)
- Brown Honeyeater (368)
- Great Egret (337)
- Australian Swiftlet (263)
- Australian Pelican (259)
- Varied Honeyeater (250)
- Metallic Starling (249)
- Australian White Ibis (241)
- Nankeen Night-heron (238)
- Spotted Turtle-dove (238)
- Striated Heron (221)
- Whimbrel (193)
- Little Egret (180)
- White-faced Heron (170)
- Eastern Curlew (165)
- Eastern Reef Egret (160)
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 Glen Boughton:
- East Trinity (2.1 km)
- Cairns City (5.4 km)
- Portsmith (5.6 km)
- Yarrabah (6.2 km)
- Parramatta Park (6.4 km)
- Bungalow (6.6 km)
- Westcourt (7.1 km)
- Cairns North (7.3 km)
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Streets
- Hamilton Road (9)
- Pine Creek - Yarrabah Road (8)
- Pine Creek Road (2)
- Whitney Road (5)
