Yagoonya is in Carpentaria LGA, QLD, postcode 4892, with population 20.
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Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
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This suburb 12% · QLD median 19%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 84% of AU suburbs
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About 54.6% of the suburb intersects mapped bushfire-prone land.
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Estimated exposure to NSW RFS Bush Fire Prone Land (CC BY), point-sampled across the suburb. This shows how much of the suburb sits within the official hazard layer — it is not a Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) rating or a property-level assessment. Obtain a BAL assessment (AS 3959) for an individual property.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Carpentaria SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Yagoonya (postcode 4892) is a sparsely populated locality in Queensland within the Carpentaria local government area. It is home to about 20 residents, with a notably youthful population and a median age of 22. Households earn a median income of $72K per year, with an average household size of 2 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.2% year-on-year at the LGA level. QLD employment has moved +1.5% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. QLD also had 35 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 16 underway, and 30 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are labourers, technicians & trades, managers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and wholesale trade. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Scottish.
The median weekly rent is $160 (Census 2021).
The crime rate in the Carpentaria LGA is higher than average at 23,944 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +1.2% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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QVAS residential dwelling sales aggregated to SA2 and mapped to suburb pages
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pop same · adds house price coverage
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop +1400 · rent +$10/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
Yagoonya is in the Carpentaria Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4892. Council-level context for Carpentaria LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Yagoonya is $160/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Yagoonya show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.