Yorkeys Knob QLD 4878

Living Here

Yorkeys Knob is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 2,794 people, with a median age of 46. The typical household earns around $1,234 a week, with median rent near $310 a week. Most homes are townhouses. About 52% of households own their home and 47% 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 Yorkeys Knob - Machans Beach statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Yorkeys Knob itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 8 schools

  • Yorkeys Knob State School
  • Holloways Beach Environmental Education Centre
  • Smithfield State High School
  • Holy Cross School
  • Newman Catholic College
  • Trinity Beach State School
  • Sun Pacific College Cairns
  • Trinity Anglican School
• 6 cafés & restaurants

  • Memories Cafe
  • Hidden@Yorkeys
  • Ten06
  • The Bluewater
  • Everyday Lover
  • Smithfield Makin' Dough
• 20 parks

  • Best Street Reserve
  • Old School Park
  • Marina Quay Park Cairns
  • Icefire Quay Reserve
  • Apollo Quay Bluewater Park
  • Reed Road Reservation Park
  • Amanda St Park
  • Centaur Park
  • Harbourised Drive Reservation Park
  • Tudor Park

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• 1 beach

  • Trinity Beach
• 2 dentists

  • The Relaxing Dentist
  • Trinity Beach Dental
• 1 physiotherapist

  • Cairns Innovative Physiotherapy
• 4 hospitals

  • Cairns North Community Health Facility
  • Cairns Hospital
  • Cairns Private hospital
  • Medicare Centre
• 4 vets

  • Northern Beaches Veterinary Clinic
  • Beachside Veterinary Hospital
  • Marlin Coast Veterinary Surgery
  • Greencross Vets
• 1 childcare centre

  • Smithfield Village Early Learning
• 2 libraries

  • Smithfield Library
  • James Cook University library
• 2 post offices

  • Australia Post Yorkeys Knob
  • Australia Post
• 3 service stations

  • Mobil
  • 7-Eleven
  • BP
• 3 gyms & sports centres

  • Maxenergy Fitness
  • make moves studio
  • Holloways Beach Sporting Complex
• 1 golf club

  • Half Moon Bay Golf Club
• 1 dog park

  • Holloways Beach Dog Exercise Area
• 2 hardware stores

  • Total Tools
  • Bunnings Warehouse
• 1 mechanic

  • Northern Mechanical & Batteries
• 1 plumber

  • Reece Plumbing
• 9 places to stay

  • A Villa Gail
  • Trinity Beach Club Holiday Apartments
  • Coco's Hoilday Apartments
  • Cairns Beach Resort
  • Trinity Beach Pacific
  • Roydon Beachfront Apartments
  • Blue Lagoon Resort
  • Vue Trinity Beach
  • Bellevue at Trininty Beach

Getting around. Train station: Freshwater, 8 km south · Bus interchange: James Cook University Bus Station, 3.4 km west · Airport: Cairns Airport, 8.1 km south.

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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: 31.9% 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 6.2% · Labour-force participation 59.4%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

126,504 bird observations recorded near Yorkeys Knob — most often seen:

• Willie Wagtail (6,532)
• Masked Lapwing (6,529)
• Peaceful Dove (5,584)
• Magpie-lark (5,327)
• Comb-crested Jacana (5,046)
• Australasian Darter (5,013)
• Welcome Swallow (4,984)
• Rainbow Bee-eater (4,920)
• Orange-footed Scrubfowl (4,853)
• Bar-shouldered Dove (4,737)
• Common Myna (4,722)
• Spangled Drongo (4,677)
• Brown Honeyeater (4,413)

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 Yorkeys Knob:

• Trinity Park (2.1 km)
• Smithfield (3.5 km)
• Trinity Beach (3.5 km)
• Holloways Beach (3.9 km)
• Kewarra Beach (5.2 km)
• Machans Beach (5.5 km)
• Macalister Range (5.8 km)
• Barron (6.4 km)

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