Normanton QLD 4890

Living Here

Normanton is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 1,391 people, with a median age of 31. The typical household earns around $1,691 a week, with median rent near $170 a week. Most homes are houses. About 26% of households own their home and 67% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Australian, English. 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 Carpentaria statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Normanton itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 2 schools

  • Normanton State School
  • Gulf Christian College
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Norman County
• 3 supermarkets

  • Foodworks
  • Normanton Stop Shop
  • Fuel-Ice
• 2 parks

  • John Henry Memorial Park
  • Joyce Travers QCWA Park
• 1 pharmacy

  • Normanton Pharmacy
• 1 medical clinic

  • Normanton Community Health Centre
• 1 hospital

  • Normanton Hospital
• 1 library

  • Normanton Library
• 1 post office

  • Normanton Post Office
• 3 service stations

  • Top Service Station
  • BP
  • Norman County
• 1 gym

  • C B O'Neill Sports Complex
• 1 golf club

  • Normanton Golf Club
• 1 bakery

  • Normanton Bakery
• 1 butcher

  • Gallagher Butchering
• 1 hardware store

  • KCs Corner
• 5 places to stay

  • Purple Pub
  • Normanton Caravan Park
  • Gulfland Motel
  • Albion Hotel
  • Normanton RV Camp

Getting around. Train station: Normanton, 400 m north-west · Airport: Normanton Aerodrome, 1.5 km south.

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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: 8.8% 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 9.5% · Labour-force participation 55.8%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

9,514 bird observations recorded near Normanton — most often seen:

• Black Kite (609)
• Brolga (479)
• Whistling Kite (469)
• Magpie-lark (459)
• Great Egret (445)
• Straw-necked Ibis (414)
• Magpie Goose (392)
• Pacific Black Duck (349)
• Bar-shouldered Dove (346)
• Little Pied Cormorant (330)
• Rainbow Bee-eater (315)
• Australasian Darter (311)
• Willie Wagtail (307)

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 Normanton:

• Karumba (32.8 km)

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