Woopen Creek QLD 4871
128 addresses · 8 streets
Kennedy Electorate › Cairns LGA › Woopen Creek · 1332 km from Brisbane
Living Here
Woopen Creek is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 135 people, with a median age of 57. The typical household earns around $1,575 a week, with median rent near $200 a week. Most homes are houses. About 84% of households own their home and 10% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Italian. 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 Babinda statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Woopen Creek itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 place to stay
Getting around. Airport: Innisfail (Mundoo) Aerodrome, 17.5 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: 45.7% 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 | 45.7% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 72.6% |
Demographics
Unemployment 1.4% · Labour-force participation 59.7%
Population by age in Woopen Creek
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 10 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 4 |
| 25-34 | 7 |
| 35-44 | 14 |
| 45-54 | 19 |
| 55-64 | 36 |
| 65-74 | 25 |
| 75-84 | 4 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Woopen Creek
| House | 52 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Woopen Creek
| <$650 | 17 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 18 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 20 |
| $3,000+ | 7 |
Top ancestries in Woopen Creek
| English | 67 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 45 |
| Italian | 23 |
| Irish | 13 |
| Scottish | 12 |
| German | 11 |
Housing tenure in Woopen Creek
| Owned | 29 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 14 |
| Rented | 5 |
| Other | 3 |
Cars per household in Woopen Creek
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
| 2 | 23 |
| 3 | 13 |
| 4+ | 7 |
Commute to work in Woopen Creek
| Car | 43 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 9 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 7 |
Top countries of birth in Woopen Creek
| England | 4 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
764 bird observations recorded near Woopen Creek — most often seen:
- Australian Brush-turkey (64)
- Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (50)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (39)
- Spectacled Monarch (38)
- Australasian Figbird (36)
- Black Butcherbird (36)
- Metallic Starling (33)
- Forest Kingfisher (31)
- Laughing Kookaburra (31)
- Varied Triller (29)
- Wet Tropics Yellow-spotted Honeyeater (23)
- Yellow Oriole (23)
- Double-eyed Fig Parrot (22)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Woopen Creek
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl (22)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (21)
- Dusky Honeyeater (21)
- Spangled Drongo (21)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (21)
- Southern Cassowary (20)
- Wompoo Fruit-dove (20)
- Australian Swiftlet (19)
- Little Shrike-thrush (19)
- Graceful Honeyeater (18)
- Mistletoebird (18)
- Victoria's Riflebird (17)
- Large-billed Scrubwren (16)
- Magpie-lark (15)
- Masked Lapwing (14)
- Topknot Pigeon (14)
- Eastern Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (13)
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 Woopen Creek:
- Bartle Frere (2.9 km)
- Wooroonooran (3.1 km)
- Wooroonooran (3.2 km)
- Wooroonooran (3.3 km)
- Ngatjan (3.8 km)
- Waugh Pocket (6.7 km)
- Cooroo Lands (7 km)
- Mirriwinni (9 km)
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Streets
- Emson Road (8)
- Joyce Road (16)
- Knust Road (11)
- Maxwell Access (4)
- Maxwell Road (5)
- Mirinjo Access (6)
- Pradella Access (1)
- Woopen Creek Road (77)
