Kalbar QLD 4309

Living Here

Kalbar is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 1,246 people, with a median age of 41. The typical household earns around $1,275 a week, with median rent near $300 a week. Most homes are houses. About 81% of households own their home and 18% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, German. 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 Boonah statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Kalbar itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Kalbar State School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Lovett at Kalbar
• 1 supermarket

  • Spar
• 1 park

  • Engelsburg Memorial Park
• 1 pharmacy

  • Kalbar Pharmacy
• 1 medical clinic

  • Kalbar Medical Centre
• 1 hospital

  • Boonah Hospital
• 1 post office

  • Kalbar LPO
• 1 bakery

  • Kalbar Country Bakehouse
• 1 butcher

  • The Butcher Co
• 1 hardware store

  • Mitre 10
• 1 hairdresser

  • Pretty & Pampered
• 2 places to stay

  • Wiss Cottage
  • 107 George

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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: 7.7% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 4.1% · Labour-force participation 56.9%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

7,369 bird observations recorded near Kalbar — most often seen:

• Willie Wagtail (368)
• Torresian Crow (356)
• Australian Magpie (330)
• Magpie-lark (316)
• Welcome Swallow (303)
• Brown Honeyeater (268)
• Peaceful Dove (264)
• Lewin's Honeyeater (263)
• Pacific Black Duck (263)
• Noisy Miner (260)
• Superb Fairy-wren (254)
• Double-barred Finch (251)
• Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (241)

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 Kalbar:

• Fassifern Valley (3.7 km)
• Obum Obum (3.7 km)
• Templin (4 km)
• Kents Lagoon (4.2 km)
• Fassifern (4.3 km)
• Teviotville (5.4 km)
• Kulgun (5.7 km)
• Silverdale (5.7 km)

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