Mer Island QLD 4875
116 addresses · 4 streets
Leichhardt Electorate › Torres Strait Island LGA › Mer Island · 2167 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Mer Island is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 406 people, with a median age of 27. The typical household earns around $1,262 a week, with median rent near $150 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 93% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Ancestry NS, Australian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Torres Strait Islands statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Mer Island itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
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: 58.4% 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 | 58.4% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 80.4% |
Demographics
Unemployment 7.1% · Labour-force participation 32.2%
Population by age in Mer Island
| 0-4 | 49 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 57 |
| 15-19 | 42 |
| 20-24 | 44 |
| 25-34 | 51 |
| 35-44 | 55 |
| 45-54 | 46 |
| 55-64 | 32 |
| 65-74 | 34 |
| 75-84 | 9 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Mer Island
| House | 80 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Mer Island
| <$650 | 16 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 27 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 31 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Mer Island
| Other | 371 |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal | 33 |
| Ancestry NS | 24 |
| Australian | 5 |
| Samoan | 5 |
| Scottish | 3 |
Housing tenure in Mer Island
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 80 |
| Other | 6 |
Cars per household in Mer Island
| 0 | 40 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 34 |
| 2 | 12 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Mer Island
| Car | 50 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 9 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 28 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Languages used at home in Mer Island
| Australian Indigenous | 345 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
238 bird observations recorded near Mer Island — most often seen:
- Whimbrel (15)
- Ashy-bellied White-eye (14)
- Eastern Reef Egret (14)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (13)
- Nankeen Night-heron (13)
- Olive-backed Sunbird (13)
- Rose-crowned Fruit-dove (13)
- Cape York Spectacled Monarch (11)
- Common Noddy (11)
- Grey-tailed Tattler (11)
- Crested Tern (8)
- Lesser Crested Tern (8)
- Pacific Golden Plover (8)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Mer Island
- Common Tern (7)
- Sacred Kingfisher (7)
- Dollarbird (6)
- Golden-headed Cisticola (6)
- Lesser Frigatebird (6)
- Wandering Tattler (6)
- White-bellied Sea-eagle (6)
- Brown Booby (5)
- Little Tern (5)
- Metallic Starling (5)
- Black Noddy (4)
- Eastern Curlew (4)
- Lesser Sand Plover (4)
- Mangrove Golden Whistler (4)
- Siberian Common Tern (4)
- Spectacled Monarch (4)
- Channel-billed Cuckoo (3)
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 Mer Island:
- Erub Island (47.9 km)
- Ugar Island (71.6 km)
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Streets
- Koki Road (5)
- Las Village (15)
- Marou Road (91)
- Naror Village (5)