Wangetti QLD 4877
39 addresses · 2 streets
Leichhardt Electorate › Douglas LGA › Wangetti · 1426 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Wangetti is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 68 people, with a median age of 39. The typical household earns around $900 a week, with median rent near $300 a week. Most homes are houses. About 80% of households own their home and 20% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, English, Ancestry NS. 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 Port Douglas statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Wangetti itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 beach
Getting around. Airport: Cairns Airport, 31.3 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: 89.1% 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 | 89.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 99.2% |
Demographics
Unemployment 8% · Labour-force participation 42.4%
Population by age in Wangetti
| 0-4 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 10 |
| 15-19 | 16 |
| 20-24 | 5 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 6 |
| 45-54 | 10 |
| 55-64 | 16 |
| 65-74 | 5 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Wangetti
| House | 18 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Wangetti
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 8 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 3 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Wangetti
| Aboriginal | 21 |
|---|---|
| English | 18 |
| Ancestry NS | 13 |
| Australian | 12 |
| Irish | 10 |
| Other | 9 |
Housing tenure in Wangetti
| Owned | 8 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 8 |
| Rented | 4 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Wangetti
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 8 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Wangetti
| Car | 13 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Top countries of birth in Wangetti
| England | 4 |
|---|
Languages used at home in Wangetti
| Australian Indigenous | 10 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
3,114 bird observations recorded near Wangetti — most often seen:
- Bar-shouldered Dove (244)
- Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (187)
- Nankeen Night-heron (161)
- Australasian Figbird (139)
- Welcome Swallow (139)
- Mistletoebird (135)
- Rajah Shelduck (117)
- Varied Triller (117)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (110)
- Dusky Moorhen (107)
- White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike (102)
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl (99)
- Black Butcherbird (97)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Wangetti
- Dusky Honeyeater (97)
- Peaceful Dove (96)
- Spangled Drongo (94)
- Bush Stone-curlew (93)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (92)
- White-throated Honeyeater (88)
- Lovely Fairy-wren (85)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (80)
- White-bellied Sea-eagle (78)
- Brown-backed Honeyeater (77)
- Willie Wagtail (75)
- Leaden Flycatcher (72)
- Helmeted Friarbird (69)
- Large-billed Gerygone (68)
- Osprey (67)
- Masked Lapwing (66)
- Torresian Imperial-pigeon (63)
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 Wangetti:
- Oak Beach (8.5 km)
- Mona Mona (9.6 km)
- Ellis Beach (11.7 km)
- Mowbray (13.8 km)
- Palm Cove (14.5 km)
- Clifton Beach (16.8 km)
- Craiglie (17.4 km)
- Kewarra Beach (18.7 km)
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Streets
- Captain Cook Highway (27)
- Hartley Street (12)
