Horn QLD 4875
297 addresses · 11 streets
Leichhardt Electorate › Torres LGA › Horn · 2189 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Horn is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 533 people, with a median age of 28. The typical household earns around $1,578 a week, with median rent near $201 a week. Most homes are houses. About 20% of households own their home and 70% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Australian, English. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Torres statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Horn itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
2 supermarkets
1 hospital
1 post office
4 places to stay
Getting around. Airport: Horn Island Airport, 4.6 km east.
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: 58% 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 | 58.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 68.6% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.6% · Labour-force participation 62.8%
Population by age in Horn
| 0-4 | 44 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 95 |
| 15-19 | 46 |
| 20-24 | 56 |
| 25-34 | 90 |
| 35-44 | 65 |
| 45-54 | 62 |
| 55-64 | 53 |
| 65-74 | 25 |
| 75-84 | 5 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Horn
| House | 118 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 30 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 12 |
Households by weekly income in Horn
| <$650 | 20 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 56 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 51 |
| $3,000+ | 29 |
Top ancestries in Horn
| Other | 374 |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal | 165 |
| Australian | 64 |
| English | 59 |
| Ancestry NS | 33 |
| Irish | 19 |
Housing tenure in Horn
| Owned | 22 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 12 |
| Rented | 117 |
| Other | 16 |
Cars per household in Horn
| 0 | 54 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
| 2 | 27 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4+ | 9 |
Commute to work in Horn
| Car | 65 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 3 |
| Tram/ferry | 29 |
| Walked | 64 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 4 |
Top countries of birth in Horn
| Papua New Guinea | 19 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 16 |
| Fiji | 9 |
| Indonesia | 7 |
| China | 4 |
| England | 4 |
Languages used at home in Horn
| Australian Indigenous | 266 |
|---|---|
| Mandarin | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
8,710 bird observations recorded near Horn — most often seen:
- Masked Lapwing (600)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (597)
- Silver Gull (582)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (487)
- Chestnut-breasted Munia (398)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (398)
- Blue-winged Kookaburra (394)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (374)
- Crested Tern (349)
- House Sparrow (322)
- Helmeted Friarbird (293)
- Mistletoebird (277)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (272)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Horn
- Australian White Ibis (245)
- Varied Triller (237)
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow (232)
- Dusky Honeyeater (225)
- Eastern Reef Egret (212)
- Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (208)
- Peaceful Dove (206)
- Whimbrel (206)
- Australasian Figbird (205)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (205)
- Great Egret (201)
- Hornbill Helmeted Friarbird (183)
- Spangled Drongo (177)
- Rajah Shelduck (166)
- Osprey (164)
- Dollarbird (156)
- Striated Heron (139)
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 Horn:
- Thursday Island (3.8 km)
- Keriri Island (6.1 km)
- Prince Of Wales (12.7 km)
- Seisia (31.6 km)
- New Mapoon (33.4 km)
- Umagico (34.9 km)
- Bamaga (36.2 km)
- Injinoo (38.5 km)
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Streets
- Airport Road (46)
- Jena Street (8)
- Jenna Street (2)
- Miskin Street (10)
- Nawie Street (54)
- Outie Street (66)
- Rattler Street (7)
- Savage Street (18)
- Tom Street (3)
- Wees Street (59)
- Yamizi Street (24)
