Goolboo QLD 4856
13 addresses · 5 streets
Kennedy Electorate › Cassowary Coast LGA › Goolboo · 1299 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Goolboo is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 25 people, with a median age of 50. The typical household earns around $3,583 a week, with median rent near $225 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 100% rent. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Italian, German. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 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: Goolboo itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
2 schools
1 service station
1 golf club
Getting around. Airport: Innisfail Aerodrome, 18.7 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: 6.9% 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 | 6.9% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 18.0% |
Demographics
Unemployment 18.2% · Labour-force participation 61.1%
Population by age in Goolboo
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 4 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 8 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 7 |
| 55-64 | 3 |
| 65-74 | 4 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Goolboo
| House | 4 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Goolboo
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 0 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 4 |
Top ancestries in Goolboo
| Australian | 13 |
|---|---|
| Italian | 10 |
| German | 3 |
| Ancestry NS | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Goolboo
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 3 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Goolboo
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
770 bird observations recorded near Goolboo — most often seen:
- Common Myna (39)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (38)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (36)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (34)
- Green Figbird (31)
- Masked Lapwing (31)
- Wet Tropics Green Oriole (31)
- Eastern Rainbow Lorikeet (29)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (29)
- House Sparrow (29)
- Olive-backed Sunbird (29)
- Eastern Peaceful Dove (28)
- Southern Magpie-lark (28)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Goolboo
- Eastern Forest Kingfisher (26)
- North-eastern Black Butcherbird (26)
- Southern Laughing Kookaburra (25)
- Wet Tropics Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (24)
- Brown-capped Emerald-dove (22)
- Cape York Yellow Honeyeater (22)
- Eastern Dusky Honeyeater (22)
- Southern Red-browed Finch (22)
- Mistletoebird (21)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (21)
- Metallic Starling (20)
- Nutmeg Munia (19)
- Macleay's Fig-parrot (18)
- North Queensland Large-billed Gerygone (18)
- North-eastern Spangled Drongo (18)
- Brown-backed Honeyeater (17)
- Eastern Varied Triller (17)
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 Goolboo:
- Cowley Creek (2.2 km)
- Silkwood (2.5 km)
- No 5 Branch (2.5 km)
- Mccutcheon (2.6 km)
- Cowley (5 km)
- Warrubullen (5.3 km)
- Walter Lever Estate (5.5 km)
- Lower Cowley (5.8 km)
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Streets
- Bruce Highway (1)
- Cassar Road (3)
- Mccutcheon Road (2)
- Peterson Road (1)
- Spanos Road (6)