Petford QLD 4871
17 addresses · 7 streets
Kennedy Electorate › Mareeba LGA › Petford · 1398 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Petford is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 22 people, with a median age of 66. The typical household earns around $700 a week. Most homes are houses. About 67% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 6 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Tablelands statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Petford 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: 14.1% 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 | 14.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 81.4% |
Demographics
Unemployment 28.6% · Labour-force participation 30.4%
Population by age in Petford
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 9 |
| 65-74 | 11 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Petford
| House | 13 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Petford
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 7 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Petford
| Australian | 13 |
|---|---|
| English | 10 |
| Irish | 4 |
| Scottish | 4 |
| Aboriginal | 3 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Petford
| Owned | 6 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 3 |
Cars per household in Petford
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Petford
| Car | 3 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
303 bird observations recorded near Petford — most often seen:
- Red-winged Parrot (21)
- Pale-headed Rosella (15)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (13)
- Great Bowerbird (12)
- Little Pied Cormorant (12)
- Striated Pardalote (12)
- Torresian Crow (12)
- Whistling Kite (12)
- Blue-faced Honeyeater (11)
- Noisy Friarbird (11)
- Peaceful Dove (11)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (11)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (10)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Petford
- Little Friarbird (10)
- Pied Currawong (10)
- Australian Magpie (9)
- Grey Butcherbird (9)
- Pied Butcherbird (9)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (9)
- Australian Wood Duck (8)
- Black-headed Pardalote (8)
- Cape York Laughing Kookaburra (8)
- Eastern Great Bowerbird (8)
- Eastern Rainbow Lorikeet (8)
- Grey Fantail (8)
- Wedge-tailed Eagle (8)
- Australian Torresian Crow (7)
- Azure Kingfisher (7)
- Brown Honeyeater (7)
- Cape York Yellow Honeyeater (7)
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 Petford:
- Almaden (25.8 km)
- Dimbulah (30 km)
- Irvinebank (30.2 km)
- Mount Garnet (40.3 km)
- Watsonville (41.5 km)
- Mutchilba (41.5 km)
- Barwidgi (42.2 km)
- Thornborough (45.5 km)
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Streets
- Bamford Road (3)
- Burke Developmental Road (5)
- Herberton - Petford Road (5)
- Lappa Mount Garnet Road (1)
- Lappa Street (1)
- Pioneer Road (1)
- Sunnymount Road (1)