Maria Creeks QLD 4855
80 addresses · 11 streets
Kennedy Electorate › Cassowary Coast LGA › Maria Creeks · 1290 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Maria Creeks is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 143 people, with a median age of 46. The typical household earns around $1,339 a week, with median rent near $275 a week. Most homes are houses. About 79% of households own their home and 15% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Scottish. 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 Johnstone statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Maria Creeks itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 service station
1 golf club
Getting around. Airport: Innisfail Aerodrome, 29 km north.
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: 35.7% 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.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 35.7% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 46.9% |
Demographics
Population by age in Maria Creeks
| 0-4 | 5 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 19 |
| 15-19 | 10 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 9 |
| 35-44 | 26 |
| 45-54 | 28 |
| 55-64 | 26 |
| 65-74 | 17 |
| 75-84 | 4 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Maria Creeks
| House | 51 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Maria Creeks
| <$650 | 7 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 16 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 8 |
| $3,000+ | 3 |
Top ancestries in Maria Creeks
| English | 41 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 39 |
| Scottish | 24 |
| Irish | 23 |
| Ancestry NS | 21 |
| Other | 11 |
Housing tenure in Maria Creeks
| Owned | 19 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 19 |
| Rented | 7 |
| Other | 3 |
Cars per household in Maria Creeks
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 15 |
| 2 | 18 |
| 3 | 7 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Maria Creeks
| Car | 33 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 7 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 10 |
Top countries of birth in Maria Creeks
| England | 5 |
|---|---|
| Philippines | 4 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
2,545 bird observations recorded near Maria Creeks — most often seen:
- Spectacled Monarch (197)
- Southern Cassowary (196)
- Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (182)
- Wompoo Fruit-dove (124)
- Spotted Catbird (117)
- Metallic Starling (115)
- Rufous Fantail (114)
- Varied Triller (106)
- Macleay's Honeyeater (101)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (93)
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl (92)
- Dusky Honeyeater (80)
- Southern Pale-yellow Robin (73)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Maria Creeks
- Black Butcherbird (68)
- Spangled Drongo (65)
- Australasian Figbird (64)
- Large-billed Scrubwren (64)
- Superb Fruit-dove (64)
- Australian Swiftlet (61)
- Grey Whistler (58)
- Wet Tropics Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (58)
- Little Shrike-thrush (55)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (54)
- Eastern Whipbird (54)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (53)
- Mistletoebird (50)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (50)
- Welcome Swallow (48)
- Brown-capped Emerald-dove (47)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (42)
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 Maria Creeks:
- Granadilla (3.4 km)
- El Arish (4.2 km)
- Daveson (4.2 km)
- Midgeree Bar (4.3 km)
- Friday Pocket (4.4 km)
- Maadi (5.5 km)
- Bingil Bay (5.8 km)
- Jaffa (5.9 km)
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Streets
- Benn Road (10)
- Bingil Bay Road (8)
- Dargin Road (7)
- El Arish - Mission Beach Road (22)
- Evergreen Drive (4)
- Hayter Road (2)
- Jones Road (8)
- Kohn Road (4)
- Leo Road (2)
- Mountain View Close (9)
- South Maria Creek Close (4)
