Wellesley Islands QLD 4892

Living Here

Wellesley Islands is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 1,022 people, with a median age of 29. The typical household earns around $855 a week, with median rent near $104 a week. Most homes are townhouses. About 0% of households own their home and 93% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, Ancestry NS, English. 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 Carpentaria statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Wellesley Islands itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Mornington Island State School
• 1 hospital

  • Mornington Island Hospital
• 1 library

  • Mornington Island Library

Getting around. Airport: Mornington Island Airport, 3.3 km west.

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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: 56.4% 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 6.6% · Labour-force participation 29.2%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

489 bird observations recorded near Wellesley Islands — most often seen:

• Rainbow Bee-eater (26)
• Bar-shouldered Dove (25)
• Eastern Peaceful Dove (23)
• Western Brown Honeyeater (22)
• Mainland Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (21)
• Northern Australian Yellow White-eye (21)
• Northern Red-backed Fairy-wren (21)
• Whistling Kite (21)
• North-western Little Friarbird (19)
• Eastern Little Corella (17)
• Cape York Rufous Whistler (16)
• North-western White-throated Gerygone (16)
• Northern Pheasant Coucal (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 Wellesley Islands:

• South Wellesley Islands (53.9 km)

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