Palmerston QLD 4860
3 addresses · 2 streets
Kennedy Electorate › Tablelands LGA › Palmerston · 1330 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Palmerston is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 8 people, with a median age of 51. The typical household earns around $2,374 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, German, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Malanda - Yungaburra statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Palmerston 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: 98.7% 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 | 98.7% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 100.0% |
Demographics
Population by age in Palmerston
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 7 |
| 55-64 | 3 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Palmerston
| House | 3 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Palmerston
| English | 7 |
|---|---|
| German | 4 |
| Irish | 4 |
| Australian | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Palmerston
| Owned | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Commute to work in Palmerston
| Car | 4 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,511 bird observations recorded near Palmerston — most often seen:
- Australian Brush-turkey (226)
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl (140)
- Victoria's Riflebird (81)
- Birds (73)
- Black-eared Catbird (73)
- Wet Tropics Eastern Whipbird (64)
- Brown-capped Emerald-dove (59)
- Wet Tropics Large-billed Scrubwren (53)
- Chowchilla (52)
- Wet Tropics Brown Gerygone (52)
- Wet Tropics Brown Cuckoo-dove (51)
- Eastern Golden Whistler (49)
- Spectacled Monarch (44)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Palmerston
- Fernwren (40)
- Tooth-billed Bowerbird (37)
- Central Queensland Coast Lewin's Honeyeater (35)
- Macleay's Honeyeater (35)
- Eastern Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (31)
- Northern Pale-yellow Robin (31)
- Bower's Shrike-thrush (30)
- Southern Chowchilla (30)
- Graceful Honeyeater (29)
- Little Shrike-thrush (29)
- Southern Cassowary (28)
- North-eastern Grey Fantail (26)
- North-eastern Silvereye (24)
- Eastern Whipbird (23)
- Eastern Varied Triller (22)
- Little Treecreeper (22)
- Wet Tropics Yellow-breasted Boatbill (22)
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 Palmerston:
- Mungalli (5.8 km)
- Middlebrook (8 km)
- Ellinjaa (10.7 km)
- Maalan (11.1 km)
- Beatrice (12.1 km)
- Millaa Millaa (13.4 km)
- East Palmerston (15.7 km)
- Koombooloomba (16 km)
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Streets
- Maalan Road (1)
- Palmerston Highway (2)