Shell Pocket QLD 4855

Living Here

Shell Pocket is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 83 people, with a median age of 41. The typical household earns around $1,125 a week, with median rent near $300 a week. Most homes are houses. About 89% of households own their home and 11% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Italian. 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 Johnstone statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Shell Pocket itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • El Arish State School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • The Pocket
• 1 park

  • Ron Pud Targent Park
• 1 hospital

  • Tully Hospital
• 1 service station

  • Puma
• 1 golf club

  • El Arish Country Club
• 1 place to stay

  • Diggers Creek Motel and Van Park

Getting around. Airport: Innisfail Aerodrome, 28.8 km north.

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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: 57.2% 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 12.2% · Labour-force participation 58.6%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

512 bird observations recorded near Shell Pocket — most often seen:

• White-breasted Woodswallow (36)
• Bar-shouldered Dove (31)
• Southern Laughing Kookaburra (29)
• North-eastern Black Butcherbird (27)
• Eastern Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (26)
• Wet Tropics Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (23)
• Olive-backed Sunbird (22)
• Eastern Rainbow Lorikeet (20)
• Masked Lapwing (20)
• Green Figbird (18)
• Coastal Australian Swiftlet (17)
• Southern Willie Wagtail (17)
• Southern Cassowary (16)

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 Shell Pocket:

• Maadi (1.7 km)
• El Arish (2.4 km)
• Friday Pocket (3.3 km)
• Jaffa (3.9 km)
• Djarawong (5.5 km)
• Granadilla (5.5 km)
• Maria Creeks (6 km)
• Daveson (6.2 km)

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