Mount Colliery QLD 4370
119 addresses · 21 streets
Maranoa Electorate › Southern Downs LGA › Mount Colliery · 115 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Mount Colliery is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 117 people, with a median age of 62. The typical household earns around $956 a week, with median rent near $175 a week. Most homes are houses. About 80% of households own their home and 20% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Southern Downs - East statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Mount Colliery itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 golf club
1 hardware store
Getting around. Airport: Cherrabah Homestead Resort Airstrip, 25.7 km south-west.
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: 53.6% 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 | 53.6% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 77.1% |
Demographics
Population by age in Mount Colliery
| 0-4 | 7 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 5 |
| 15-19 | 3 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 4 |
| 35-44 | 7 |
| 45-54 | 15 |
| 55-64 | 24 |
| 65-74 | 35 |
| 75-84 | 10 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Mount Colliery
| House | 48 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Mount Colliery
| <$650 | 13 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 16 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 6 |
| $3,000+ | 3 |
Top ancestries in Mount Colliery
| English | 55 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 44 |
| Ancestry NS | 22 |
| Scottish | 15 |
| Irish | 14 |
| German | 7 |
Housing tenure in Mount Colliery
| Owned | 25 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 10 |
| Rented | 9 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Mount Colliery
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 15 |
| 2 | 15 |
| 3 | 14 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Mount Colliery
| Car | 24 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 6 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,623 bird observations recorded near Mount Colliery — most often seen:
- Southern Lewin's Honeyeater (158)
- South-east Eastern Whipbird (122)
- Albert's Lyrebird (118)
- North-eastern Yellow Robin (98)
- Southern Brown Gerygone (98)
- South-eastern Grey Fantail (89)
- Eastern Golden Whistler (75)
- Eastern Grey Shrike-thrush (72)
- Wonga Pigeon (61)
- Central East Coast White-browed Scrubwren (54)
- Northern Brown Thornbill (53)
- Central East Coast Noisy Pitta (49)
- North-eastern Rufous Fantail (49)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Mount Colliery
- Birds (48)
- Black-faced Monarch (45)
- Paradise Riflebird (45)
- South-east Eastern Spinebill (42)
- Southern Red-browed Finch (41)
- Green Catbird (39)
- Southern Satin Bowerbird (35)
- Eastern Pied Currawong (34)
- Southern Brown Cuckoo-dove (30)
- Regent Bowerbird (28)
- South-eastern Yellow-faced Honeyeater (24)
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (21)
- Northern Superb Fairy-wren (21)
- Coastal New South Wales Australian Magpie (20)
- Brown-capped Emerald-dove (19)
- Eastern Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (18)
- Eastern Silvereye (17)
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 Mount Colliery:
- Tannymorel (5.1 km)
- Killarney (6.4 km)
- Emu Vale (7.2 km)
- Danderoo (7.6 km)
- Wiyarra (8.1 km)
- The Falls (9.8 km)
- Loch Lomond (11.6 km)
- Yangan (12.8 km)
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Streets
- Baker Road (11)
- Bakers Road (12)
- Braithwaite Road (1)
- Braithwaites Road (2)
- Caunter Road (1)
- Condamine River Road (1)
- Edmund Street (4)
- Emu Creek Road (1)
- Gambubal Road (5)
- Graysons Siding Road (6)
- Mcivor Road (1)
- Miner Lane (2)
- Miners Lane (2)
- Neden Lane (3)
- O'mara Road (12)
- O'maras Road (7)
- Pincotts Road (1)
- Roach Street (17)
- Schreiweis Lane (1)
- Sunday Plains Road (2)
- Tannymorel Mount Colliery Road (27)
