Japoonvale QLD 4856
71 addresses · 12 streets
Kennedy Electorate › Cassowary Coast LGA › Japoonvale · 1306 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Japoonvale is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 107 people, with a median age of 55. The typical household earns around $1,018 a week, with median rent near $240 a week. Most homes are houses. About 70% of households own their home and 19% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. 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 Johnstone statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Japoonvale itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
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: 38.1% 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 | 38.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 59.5% |
Demographics
Population by age in Japoonvale
| 0-4 | 5 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 10 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 6 |
| 25-34 | 7 |
| 35-44 | 7 |
| 45-54 | 11 |
| 55-64 | 27 |
| 65-74 | 24 |
| 75-84 | 4 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Japoonvale
| House | 46 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Japoonvale
| <$650 | 10 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 20 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 5 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Japoonvale
| English | 39 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 32 |
| Irish | 17 |
| Ancestry NS | 16 |
| Other | 15 |
| Scottish | 14 |
Housing tenure in Japoonvale
| Owned | 23 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 10 |
| Rented | 9 |
| Other | 5 |
Cars per household in Japoonvale
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 17 |
| 2 | 18 |
| 3 | 8 |
| 4+ | 5 |
Commute to work in Japoonvale
| Car | 26 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 6 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 11 |
Top countries of birth in Japoonvale
| England | 4 |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | 4 |
Languages used at home in Japoonvale
| French | 3 |
|---|---|
| German | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
243 bird observations recorded near Japoonvale — most often seen:
- Bar-shouldered Dove (16)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (12)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (11)
- Laughing Kookaburra (10)
- Masked Lapwing (10)
- Spangled Drongo (10)
- Yellow Oriole (10)
- Olive-backed Sunbird (9)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (9)
- Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (9)
- Australasian Figbird (8)
- Magpie-lark (8)
- Southern Magpie-lark (8)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Japoonvale
- Straw-necked Ibis (8)
- Welcome Swallow (8)
- Wet Tropics Green Oriole (8)
- Black Kite (7)
- Brush Cuckoo (7)
- Cattle Egret (7)
- Metallic Starling (7)
- Wet Tropics Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (7)
- Australian Swiftlet (6)
- Chestnut-breasted Munia (6)
- Common Myna (6)
- Forest Kingfisher (6)
- Green Figbird (6)
- North-eastern Black Butcherbird (6)
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl (6)
- Southern Cassowary (6)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (6)
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 Japoonvale:
- Mena Creek (6.6 km)
- Walter Lever Estate (6.7 km)
- Bombeeta (6.7 km)
- No 4 Branch (7.2 km)
- Utchee Creek (8.8 km)
- No 5 Branch (9.7 km)
- Germantown (10.5 km)
- Silkwood (10.7 km)
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Streets
- Azzopardi Road (10)
- Cooyar Road (1)
- Innisfail - Japoon Road (6)
- Kittabah Road (1)
- Kroger Road (5)
- Silkwood - Japoon Road (18)
- Spiteri Road (1)
- Stratvell Road (2)
- Wall Road (3)
- Warrakin Road (21)
- Woogaka Road (2)
- Wooloogin Road (1)
