Upper Daintree QLD 4873
9 addresses · 1 street
Leichhardt Electorate › Douglas LGA › Upper Daintree · 1481 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Upper Daintree is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 21 people, with a median age of 39. The typical household earns around $1,687 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. 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 Daintree statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Upper Daintree itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
3 cafés & restaurants
Getting around. Airport: Bloomfield Airport, 39.9 km north.
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: 60.7% 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 | 60.7% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 78.3% |
Demographics
Population by age in Upper Daintree
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 5 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 5 |
| 55-64 | 4 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Upper Daintree
| House | 6 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Upper Daintree
| English | 11 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 9 |
| Irish | 7 |
| Scottish | 7 |
| Other | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
Housing tenure in Upper Daintree
| Owned | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Upper Daintree
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Upper Daintree
| Car | 4 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 3 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Languages used at home in Upper Daintree
| German | 3 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
63,360 bird observations recorded near Upper Daintree — most often seen:
- Yellow Oriole (2,969)
- Shining Flycatcher (2,761)
- Azure Kingfisher (2,747)
- Welcome Swallow (2,696)
- Little Pied Cormorant (2,660)
- Masked Lapwing (2,526)
- Australian Swiftlet (2,451)
- Australasian Figbird (2,449)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (2,420)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (2,370)
- Spangled Drongo (2,363)
- Large-billed Gerygone (2,293)
- Black Butcherbird (2,282)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Upper Daintree
- Papuan Frogmouth (2,185)
- Rajah Shelduck (2,124)
- Australasian Darter (2,061)
- Great Egret (1,977)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (1,901)
- Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (1,852)
- Metallic Starling (1,826)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (1,773)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (1,771)
- Great-billed Heron (1,712)
- Varied Triller (1,700)
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl (1,675)
- Forest Kingfisher (1,661)
- Australian White Ibis (1,657)
- Helmeted Friarbird (1,543)
- Sacred Kingfisher (1,525)
- Striated Heron (1,430)
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 Upper Daintree:
- Daintree (3.4 km)
- Stewart Creek Valley (6.4 km)
- Forest Creek (9.4 km)
- Lower Daintree (9.7 km)
- Diwan (12.5 km)
- Cow Bay (15.3 km)
- Kimberley (15.5 km)
- Thornton Beach (16.5 km)
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