Cooee TAS 7320
479 addresses · 20 streets
Braddon Electorate › Burnie LGA › Cooee · 237 km from Hobart
Living Here
Cooee is a suburb of Tasmania, home to about 597 people, with a median age of 44. The typical household earns around $1,375 a week, with median rent near $225 a week. Most homes are houses. About 64% of households own their home and 34% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Parklands - Camdale statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Cooee itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
2 supermarkets
3 beaches
2 Catholic churches
3 doctors & medical clinics
1 physiotherapist
4 optometrists
3 childcare & kindergartens
2 libraries
5 service stations
2 golf clubs
1 playground
1 dog park
2 bakeries
2 butchers
3 hardware stores
1 electrician
1 plumber
Getting around. Bus interchange: Burnie City Interchange, 2.8 km south-east · Airport: Burnie Wynyard Airport, 12.8 km north-west.
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: 9.5% 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 | 9.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 14.3% |
Demographics
Unemployment 6.2% · Labour-force participation 56.6%
Population by age in Cooee
| 0-4 | 21 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 72 |
| 15-19 | 39 |
| 20-24 | 41 |
| 25-34 | 69 |
| 35-44 | 64 |
| 45-54 | 75 |
| 55-64 | 77 |
| 65-74 | 86 |
| 75-84 | 45 |
| 85+ | 17 |
Dwelling types in Cooee
| House | 208 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 25 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 3 |
Households by weekly income in Cooee
| <$650 | 40 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 79 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 63 |
| $3,000+ | 43 |
Top ancestries in Cooee
| Australian | 253 |
|---|---|
| English | 241 |
| Irish | 73 |
| Scottish | 73 |
| Aboriginal | 54 |
| Other | 39 |
Housing tenure in Cooee
| Owned | 89 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 61 |
| Rented | 81 |
| Other | 4 |
Cars per household in Cooee
| 0 | 13 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 89 |
| 2 | 87 |
| 3 | 26 |
| 4+ | 17 |
Commute to work in Cooee
| Car | 201 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 6 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 16 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 12 |
Top countries of birth in Cooee
| England | 18 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 8 |
| India | 6 |
| Myanmar | 4 |
| Nepal | 4 |
| Philippines | 4 |
Languages used at home in Cooee
| Punjabi | 5 |
|---|---|
| Nepali | 4 |
| Tagalog | 4 |
| Mandarin | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
20,346 bird observations recorded near Cooee — most often seen:
- Common Starling (1,570)
- Silver Gull (1,535)
- Masked Lapwing (1,467)
- Eurasian Blackbird (1,405)
- Little Wattlebird (1,240)
- House Sparrow (1,010)
- European Goldfinch (909)
- Forest Raven (694)
- Tasmanian Native-hen (689)
- Galah (672)
- Superb Fairy-wren (660)
- Brown Thornbill (608)
- Grey Fantail (606)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Cooee
- Yellow Wattlebird (586)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (569)
- Australian Magpie (541)
- Welcome Swallow (498)
- Grey Butcherbird (494)
- Pacific Black Duck (461)
- Southern Masked Lapwing (437)
- White-faced Heron (435)
- Pacific Gull (419)
- Australian Wood Duck (402)
- Eastern Spinebill (366)
- Silvereye (366)
- New Holland Honeyeater (363)
- European Greenfinch (356)
- Laughing Kookaburra (337)
- Yellow-throated Honeyeater (331)
- Rock Dove (320)
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 Cooee:
- Ocean Vista (1.3 km)
- Park Grove (1.6 km)
- Parklands (1.7 km)
- East Cam (2.4 km)
- Camdale (2.4 km)
- Montello (2.5 km)
- Burnie (2.7 km)
- Hillcrest (3 km)
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Streets
- Bass Highway (112)
- Boston Avenue (15)
- Brickport Road (32)
- Burnell Street (15)
- Cambria Street (1)
- Cooee Point Road (2)
- Crisp Street (26)
- Durham Road (27)
- Evans Street (7)
- Fidler Street (21)
- Morris Street (16)
- Osborne Street (7)
- Panorama Crescent (31)
- Poke Street (6)
- Saundridge Road (55)
- Shepton Close (7)
- Speed Street (10)
- Stitz Street (26)
- Thirkell Street (39)
- Turrung Street (24)
