Sundown QLD 4860

Living Here

Sundown is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 145 people, with a median age of 54. The typical household earns around $1,791 a week, with median rent near $280 a week. Most homes are houses. About 93% of households own their home and 7% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Italian, English. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.

Over time — Census 2011 → 2021

Getting Around & Local Services

• 9 schools

  • Daradgee Environmental Education Centre
  • Innisfail State School
  • Innisfail Diverse Learning Centre
  • Innisfail State College
  • Good Counsel College
  • Good Counsel Primary School
  • Goondi State School
  • Innisfail East State School
  • Radiant Life College
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Coffee Club Innisfail
• 1 supermarket

  • Coles
• 10 parks

  • Cullinane Park
  • Groom Esplanade
  • Warrina Lakes and Botanical Gardens
  • Herb Layt Park
  • Fitzgerald Park
  • Dalrymple Park
  • Page Park
  • Anzac Memorial Park
  • Jack Fossey Park
  • Vuleta Park
• 1 Catholic church

  • Mother of Good Counsel Catholic Church
• 1 dentist

  • Riverside Family Dental
• 1 hospital

  • Innisfail Hospital
• 1 childcare centre

  • Goodstart Early Learning Innisfail
• 1 library

  • Innisfail Library
• 1 post office

  • Innisfail Post Shop
• 4 service stations

  • BP
  • Mobil
  • Caltex Woolworths
  • BP
• 1 gym

  • Innisfail Bowls Club
• 1 golf club

  • Innisfail Golf Course
• 6 places to stay

  • Moondarra Motel
  • Barrier Reef Motel
  • River Drive Caravan Park
  • BIG4 Innisfail
  • BIG 4 Innisfail Mango Tree Tourist Park
  • Hillside House

Getting around. Train station: Innisfail, 3.1 km south · Railway halt: Innisfail Mini Rail, 2.2 km south · Airport: Innisfail (Mundoo) Aerodrome, 6.8 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: 5.8% 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 5.5% · Labour-force participation 58.9%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

17,758 bird observations recorded near Sundown — most often seen:

• Spotted Turtle-dove (1,147)
• Common Myna (1,133)
• Magpie-lark (1,056)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (1,036)
• Peaceful Dove (947)
• House Sparrow (936)
• Willie Wagtail (919)
• Australasian Figbird (875)
• Masked Lapwing (711)
• Metallic Starling (706)
• Australian White Ibis (626)
• Hornbill Helmeted Friarbird (561)
• Spangled Drongo (539)

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 Sundown:

• Cullinane (1.8 km)
• Goondi (2 km)
• Jubilee Heights (2.2 km)
• Goondi Hill (2.8 km)
• Innisfail (2.9 km)
• Innisfail Estate (2.9 km)
• Eaton (2.9 km)
• Daradgee (2.9 km)

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