Mapoon QLD 4874

Living Here

Mapoon is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 469 people, with a median age of 29. The typical household earns around $1,010 a week, with median rent near $120 a week. Most homes are houses. About 6% of households own their home and 94% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Ancestry NS, English. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.

Over time — Census 2011 → 2021

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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: 60.2% 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 20.9% · Labour-force participation 45.8%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

273 bird observations recorded near Mapoon — most often seen:

• Great Knot (22)
• Black-tailed Godwit (16)
• Eastern Curlew (16)
• Terek Sandpiper (14)
• Whimbrel (14)
• Australian Pied Oystercatcher (13)
• Greater Sand Plover (13)
• Whiskered Tern (12)
• Crested Tern (11)
• Red Knot (11)
• Australian Pelican (10)
• Lesser Crested Tern (10)
• Little Tern (10)

Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.

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