Joskeleigh QLD 4702
40 addresses · 2 streets
Capricornia Electorate › Livingstone LGA › Joskeleigh · 509 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Joskeleigh is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 60 people, with a median age of 47. The typical household earns around $850 a week, with median rent near $150 a week. Most homes are houses. About 86% of households own their home and 14% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Aboriginal, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Rockhampton Region - East statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Joskeleigh itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 beach
1 golf club
1 place to stay
Getting around. Airport: Great Keppel Airport, 26.7 km north-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: 29.5% 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 | 29.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 53.9% |
Demographics
Unemployment 11.1% · Labour-force participation 38.3%
Population by age in Joskeleigh
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 14 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 9 |
| 45-54 | 7 |
| 55-64 | 8 |
| 65-74 | 9 |
| 75-84 | 4 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Joskeleigh
| House | 20 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Joskeleigh
| <$650 | 6 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 4 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Joskeleigh
| Australian | 21 |
|---|---|
| Other | 20 |
| Aboriginal | 15 |
| Ancestry NS | 13 |
| English | 9 |
| Filipino | 3 |
Housing tenure in Joskeleigh
| Owned | 13 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 6 |
| Rented | 3 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Joskeleigh
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Joskeleigh
| Car | 13 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 5 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
388 bird observations recorded near Joskeleigh — most often seen:
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (30)
- Brahminy Kite (25)
- Silver Gull (22)
- Crested Tern (16)
- Whimbrel (16)
- Australasian Figbird (15)
- Mangrove Honeyeater (15)
- Beach Stone-curlew (14)
- Brown Honeyeater (14)
- Masked Lapwing (14)
- Red-capped Plover (13)
- White-bellied Sea-eagle (13)
- Caspian Tern (12)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Joskeleigh
- Australian Magpie (11)
- Australian White Ibis (11)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (11)
- Pied Cormorant (11)
- White-faced Heron (11)
- Eastern Curlew (10)
- Lesser Sand Plover (10)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (10)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (10)
- Welcome Swallow (10)
- Whistling Kite (10)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (9)
- Eastern Reef Egret (9)
- Great Egret (9)
- Greater Sand Plover (9)
- Mistletoebird (9)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (9)
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 Joskeleigh:
- Keppel Sands (4.9 km)
- Coowonga (9.2 km)
- Zilzie (10.5 km)
- Tungamull (10.7 km)
- Thompson Point (11.3 km)
- Nankin (13.3 km)
- Coorooman (13.4 km)
- Emu Park (13.7 km)
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Streets
- Joskeleigh Road (38)
- Keppel Sands Road (2)