Maalan QLD 4886
26 addresses · 5 streets
Kennedy Electorate › Tablelands LGA › Maalan · 1335 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Maalan is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 26 people, with a median age of 41. The typical household earns around $1,124 a week, with median rent near $275 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Ancestry NS. 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 Malanda - Yungaburra statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Maalan itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 place to stay
Getting around. Airport: Innisfail Aerodrome, 44.1 km 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: 50.3% 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 | 50.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 63.1% |
Demographics
Population by age in Maalan
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 8 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 6 |
| 45-54 | 5 |
| 55-64 | 4 |
| 65-74 | 6 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Maalan
| House | 8 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Maalan
| Australian | 15 |
|---|---|
| English | 10 |
| Ancestry NS | 8 |
| Irish | 4 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Maalan
| Owned | 8 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Maalan
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 5 |
Commute to work in Maalan
| Car | 7 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 5 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
580 bird observations recorded near Maalan — most often seen:
- Eastern Whipbird (33)
- Victoria's Riflebird (32)
- Australian Brush-turkey (29)
- Grey Fantail (28)
- Lewin's Honeyeater (25)
- Pied Currawong (25)
- Red-browed Finch (24)
- Grey-headed Robin (22)
- Brown Cuckoo-dove (21)
- Bridled Honeyeater (20)
- Wet Tropics Eastern Whipbird (20)
- Central Queensland Coast Lewin's Honeyeater (19)
- Black-eared Catbird (18)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Maalan
- Bower's Shrike-thrush (18)
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl (18)
- Mountain Thornbill (17)
- North-eastern Grey Fantail (17)
- Spectacled Monarch (17)
- Crimson Rosella (16)
- Laughing Kookaburra (16)
- Magpie-lark (16)
- Spotted Catbird (16)
- Mistletoebird (15)
- Wet Tropics Brown Cuckoo-dove (15)
- Willie Wagtail (15)
- Southern Cassowary (14)
- Southern Pale-yellow Robin (14)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (14)
- Australian King-parrot (13)
- Dusky Honeyeater (13)
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 Maalan:
- Beatrice (5.7 km)
- Middlebrook (6.2 km)
- Koombooloomba (8.4 km)
- Ravenshoe (11 km)
- Palmerston (11.1 km)
- Millaa Millaa (11.2 km)
- Mungalli (11.9 km)
- Ellinjaa (12.8 km)
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Streets
- Beatrice Way (1)
- Maalan Road (18)
- Mallan Road (1)
- Old Palmerston Highway (1)
- Sutties Gap Road (5)
