Shannonvale QLD 4873
98 addresses · 11 streets
Leichhardt Electorate › Douglas LGA › Shannonvale · 1451 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Shannonvale is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 194 people, with a median age of 48. The typical household earns around $1,944 a week, with median rent near $210 a week. Most homes are houses. About 84% of households own their home and 12% 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 Daintree statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Shannonvale itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 café or restaurant
1 hospital
1 vet
1 library
2 golf clubs
1 hardware store
Getting around. Airport: Cairns Airport, 57.5 km south-east.
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: 88.8% 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.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 88.8% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 95.6% |
Demographics
Unemployment 2.4% · Labour-force participation 76.5%
Population by age in Shannonvale
| 0-4 | 4 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 22 |
| 15-19 | 20 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 12 |
| 35-44 | 23 |
| 45-54 | 36 |
| 55-64 | 41 |
| 65-74 | 10 |
| 75-84 | 18 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Shannonvale
| House | 67 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Shannonvale
| <$650 | 4 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 20 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 32 |
| $3,000+ | 15 |
Top ancestries in Shannonvale
| Australian | 79 |
|---|---|
| English | 66 |
| Irish | 21 |
| German | 18 |
| Italian | 18 |
| Scottish | 18 |
Housing tenure in Shannonvale
| Owned | 23 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 38 |
| Rented | 9 |
| Other | 3 |
Cars per household in Shannonvale
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 12 |
| 2 | 33 |
| 3 | 9 |
| 4+ | 10 |
Commute to work in Shannonvale
| Car | 89 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 21 |
Top countries of birth in Shannonvale
| New Zealand | 9 |
|---|---|
| Germany | 8 |
| England | 4 |
Languages used at home in Shannonvale
| German | 9 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
7,100 bird observations recorded near Shannonvale — most often seen:
- Bar-shouldered Dove (510)
- Australasian Figbird (339)
- Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (336)
- Masked Lapwing (331)
- Metallic Starling (322)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (311)
- Laughing Kookaburra (310)
- Spectacled Monarch (269)
- Forest Kingfisher (240)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (240)
- Peaceful Dove (239)
- Varied Triller (238)
- Bush Stone-curlew (233)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Shannonvale
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (226)
- Australian Swiftlet (218)
- Dusky Honeyeater (216)
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl (210)
- Macleay's Honeyeater (190)
- Double-eyed Fig Parrot (187)
- Magpie-lark (187)
- Wompoo Fruit-dove (186)
- Common Myna (185)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (184)
- Silvereye (181)
- Black Butcherbird (174)
- Spangled Drongo (174)
- Australian Brush-turkey (166)
- Southern Pale-yellow Robin (166)
- Willie Wagtail (166)
- Yellow Oriole (166)
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 Shannonvale:
- Cassowary (3.2 km)
- Mossman Gorge (4.3 km)
- Mossman (4.4 km)
- Killaloe (5 km)
- Finlayvale (6.3 km)
- Bonnie Doon (6.4 km)
- Cooya Beach (6.9 km)
- Julatten (8.4 km)
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Streets
- Borzi Road (2)
- Captain Cook Highway (1)
- Chooks Ridge (2)
- Mossman - Mt Molloy Road (8)
- Mossman Mount Molloy Road (8)
- Mountain View Road (21)
- Ponzo Road (15)
- Rex Highway (7)
- Shannonvale Road (16)
- Tara Hills Road (1)
- Thomson Low Drive (17)
