Ugar Island QLD 4875
36 addresses · 5 streets
Leichhardt Electorate › Torres Strait Island LGA › Ugar Island · 2231 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Ugar Island is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 69 people, with a median age of 29. The typical household earns around $900 a week, with median rent near $119 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 100% rent. Most workers walk to work. Common community backgrounds include Ancestry NS, Australian, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Torres Strait Islands statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Ugar Island 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: 62% 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 | 62.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 97.0% |
Demographics
Unemployment 5.6% · Labour-force participation 42.9%
Population by age in Ugar Island
| 0-4 | 9 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 19 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 13 |
| 35-44 | 12 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 4 |
| 65-74 | 5 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Ugar Island
| House | 18 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Ugar Island
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 3 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Ugar Island
| Other | 59 |
|---|---|
| Ancestry NS | 7 |
| Australian | 0 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Ugar Island
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 18 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Ugar Island
| 0 | 9 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Ugar Island
| Car | 0 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 14 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Languages used at home in Ugar Island
| Australian Indigenous | 61 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
107 bird observations recorded near Ugar Island — most often seen:
- Bar-shouldered Dove (6)
- Crested Tern (6)
- Lesser Frigatebird (6)
- Ashy-bellied White-eye (5)
- Eastern Reef Egret (5)
- Grey Plover (5)
- Common Tern (4)
- Greater Sand Plover (4)
- Little Tern (4)
- Olive-backed Sunbird (4)
- Pacific Golden Plover (4)
- Red-headed Honeyeater (4)
- Terek Sandpiper (4)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Ugar Island
- Common Greenshank (3)
- Common Sandpiper (3)
- Dollarbird (3)
- Eastern Curlew (3)
- Golden-headed Cisticola (3)
- Great Frigatebird (3)
- House Sparrow (3)
- Mangrove Golden Whistler (3)
- Red-necked Stint (3)
- Spectacled Monarch (3)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (3)
- Whimbrel (3)
- Bar-tailed Godwit (2)
- Black-naped Tern (2)
- Channel-billed Cuckoo (2)
- Grey-tailed Tattler (2)
- Lesser Crested Tern (2)
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 Ugar Island:
- Erub Island (26.1 km)
- Masig Island (30.8 km)
- Mer Island (71.6 km)
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Streets
- Drankie Street (10)
- Naigar Road (8)
- Ned Street (2)
- Orankie Street (10)
- Randall Street (6)