Green Island QLD
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Leichhardt Electorate › Cairns LGA › Green Island · 1394 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Green Island is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 20 people, with a median age of 34. The typical household earns around $1,749 a week, with median rent near $125 a week. Most workers walk to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.
Over time — Census 2011 → 2021
Getting Around & Local Services
4 cafés & restaurants
Getting around. Airport: Cairns Airport, 27.1 km south-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: 78.9% 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 | 78.9% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 100.0% |
Demographics
Population by age in Green Island
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 4 |
| 25-34 | 5 |
| 35-44 | 4 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 4 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 3 |
Top ancestries in Green Island
| English | 5 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 4 |
| Ancestry NS | 4 |
| Irish | 3 |
| Other | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
Cars per household in Green Island
| 0 | 8 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Green Island
| Car | 0 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 7 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Top countries of birth in Green Island
| New Zealand | 6 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
12,342 bird observations recorded near Green Island — most often seen:
- Buff-banded Rail (1,180)
- Eastern Reef Egret (1,087)
- Crested Tern (717)
- Silver Gull (717)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (633)
- Black Noddy (596)
- Silvereye (575)
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl (562)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (516)
- Rose-crowned Fruit-dove (508)
- Osprey (451)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (425)
- Whimbrel (409)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Green Island
- Black-naped Tern (388)
- Ruddy Turnstone (370)
- Bridled Tern (328)
- Ashy-bellied White-eye (299)
- Lesser Crested Tern (259)
- White-bellied Sea-eagle (238)
- Brown Booby (234)
- Grey-tailed Tattler (233)
- Beach Stone-curlew (232)
- Pacific Golden Plover (226)
- Common Noddy (210)
- Sacred Kingfisher (198)
- Welcome Swallow (191)
- Eastern Osprey (181)
- Little Tern (157)
- House Sparrow (112)
- Great Egret (110)
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 Green Island:
- Yarrabah (20.8 km)
- East Trinity (24.5 km)
- Glen Boughton (26.1 km)
- Machans Beach (26.2 km)
- Holloways Beach (26.7 km)
- Yorkeys Knob (27.4 km)
- Aeroglen (27.6 km)
- Cairns City (27.8 km)
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