Long Flat QLD 4570
37 addresses · 7 streets
Wide Bay Electorate › Gympie LGA › Long Flat · 139 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Long Flat is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 98 people, with a median age of 36. The typical household earns around $1,625 a week, with median rent near $350 a week. Most homes are houses. About 90% of households own their home and 10% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 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: Long Flat itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 hospital
1 golf club
3 hardware stores
1 place to stay
Getting around. Train station: Gympie North, 12 km north · Railway halt: Dagun, 6.4 km south · Airport: Gympie Airport, 4.8 km south-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: 11.5% 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 | 11.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 26.3% |
Demographics
Unemployment 2.1% · Labour-force participation 70.6%
Population by age in Long Flat
| 0-4 | 12 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 19 |
| 15-19 | 7 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 11 |
| 35-44 | 15 |
| 45-54 | 11 |
| 55-64 | 11 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Long Flat
| House | 30 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Long Flat
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 4 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 7 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Long Flat
| English | 53 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 35 |
| Irish | 17 |
| Ancestry NS | 11 |
| Aboriginal | 6 |
| German | 6 |
Housing tenure in Long Flat
| Owned | 14 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 14 |
| Rented | 3 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Long Flat
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 8 |
| 2 | 11 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 4+ | 5 |
Commute to work in Long Flat
| Car | 24 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 9 |
Top countries of birth in Long Flat
| Zimbabwe | 3 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,639 bird observations recorded near Long Flat — most often seen:
- Australian White Ibis (108)
- Southern Magpie-lark (85)
- Australian Torresian Crow (78)
- Torresian Crow (74)
- Pacific Black Duck (70)
- Southern Masked Lapwing (65)
- Eastern Rainbow Lorikeet (64)
- Australasian Purple Swamphen (61)
- Australian Wood Duck (59)
- Magpie-lark (59)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (57)
- Eastern Pied Butcherbird (55)
- South-eastern Grey Butcherbird (53)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Long Flat
- Willie Wagtail (53)
- Australian Magpie (52)
- Noisy Miner (50)
- Pied Butcherbird (49)
- Straw-necked Ibis (48)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (47)
- Little Pied Cormorant (46)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (45)
- Southern Laughing Kookaburra (45)
- Common Myna (44)
- Crested Pigeon (43)
- Lewin's Honeyeater (43)
- Mainland Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (43)
- Eastern Blue-faced Honeyeater (37)
- Birds (36)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (35)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (35)
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 Long Flat:
- Lagoon Pocket (1.8 km)
- Mcintosh Creek (2 km)
- The Dawn (2.4 km)
- Calico Creek (3.7 km)
- Jones Hill (3.7 km)
- Gilldora (4.1 km)
- Pie Creek (5 km)
- Mooloo (5.6 km)
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Streets
- Birt Road (6)
- Calico Creek Road (2)
- Gavin Way (3)
- Lagoon Pocket Road (8)
- Lawson Road (2)
- Mary Valley Road (15)
- Mcintosh Creek Road (1)
