Lagoon Pocket QLD 4570

Living Here

Lagoon Pocket is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 170 people, with a median age of 38. The typical household earns around $1,791 a week, with median rent near $400 a week. Most homes are houses. About 94% of households own their home and 6% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Gympie Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Lagoon Pocket itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 hospital

  • Gympie General Hospital
• 1 golf club

  • Gunabul Par 3
• 2 hardware stores

  • Tool Kits Direct
  • Bunnings Warehouse
• 2 places to stay

  • Twin Lakes Village Caravan Park
  • Cooloola Cabins & Caravan Park

Getting around. Train station: Traveston, 11.8 km south-east · Railway halt: Dagun, 5.2 km south · Airport: Gympie Airport, 3.1 km south-east.

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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: 15.8% 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 4.9% · Labour-force participation 63.6%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

1,319 bird observations recorded near Lagoon Pocket — most often seen:

• Torresian Crow (90)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (64)
• Australian White Ibis (60)
• Lewin's Honeyeater (59)
• Magpie-lark (58)
• Noisy Miner (56)
• Australian Wood Duck (53)
• Australian Magpie (52)
• Pied Butcherbird (52)
• Willie Wagtail (52)
• Pacific Black Duck (50)
• Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (46)
• Brown Honeyeater (46)

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 Lagoon Pocket:

• Long Flat (1.8 km)
• Gilldora (2.8 km)
• The Dawn (2.8 km)
• Calico Creek (3.8 km)
• Mcintosh Creek (3.8 km)
• Kybong (3.9 km)
• Dagun (4.9 km)
• Jones Hill (4.9 km)

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