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Gamboola, QLD

By Lauren McCaleb · Reviewed by Dylan Duncan ·

13/100
Suburb Score

Among Australia's less advantaged suburbs

Gamboola is more socio-economically advantaged than about 13% of the 14,462 Australian suburbs we score, based on the ABS SEIFA index (raw score 904, where about 1000 is the national average).

A socio-economic measure from ABS Census data — not a measure of how good a suburb is to live in or visit. How we calculate this.

Is Gamboola a good place to live?

There’s no single answer — it depends on what matters to you. So instead of one mystery number, we break it down: a transparent score on each part of life we can back with public data, and an honest “not yet” on the parts we can’t.

13/100
Livability

Lower on the data we score

A weighted blend of the 1 component we can score for Gamboola from public data. It sits alongside — and reconciles with — the socio-economic Suburb Score above; it is a transparent read, not a complete verdict.

Socio-economic advantage

13/100

Among Australia's less advantaged suburbs

Among Australia's less advantaged suburbs — the same ABS SEIFA-based Suburb Score (13/100) shown above. Income, education and occupation, as published by the ABS. · ABS SEIFA 2021

Not yet scored

We’d rather leave these open than publish a number we can’t stand behind. Here’s where each one stands.

  • Housing affordabilityNot scored — no ABS Census median-rent figure for this suburb.
  • Amenities & accessNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap amenity mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
  • Green spaceNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap green-space mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
  • TransportNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap public-transport mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
  • SchoolsNot scored yet — school performance (ACARA / ICSEA) needs a data-reuse licence cleared before we can publish it.
  • SafetyNot scored yet — Australia has no single open crime dataset and safety data carries defamation and legal care, so it is gated pending a go/no-go and will be data-only when added.
  • CommunityNot scored yet — we won't reduce community to a number from a proxy. We'd rather leave it open than publish an invented value judgement.

A transparent read on public data, not a verdict — and not a measure of any person or community. See our methodology for how each component is worked out and why some aren’t scored yet.

Gamboola at a glance

Population (2021)
3
Median age
58
Median weekly household income
$749
SEIFA score
904
Local government area
Mareeba
Coordinates
-16.4248, 143.4910

Map of Gamboola

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Gamboola demographics (2021 Census)

The figures below profile Gamboola using the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census; every percentage is a share of a clearly stated Census count, so each one traces back to the source.

Housing and households

Average household size
1 people
Median weekly personal income
$749

Community and culture

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
0 (0%)

Work and education

Completed Year 12
0 (0%)
Labour-force participation
33.3%
Employed full-time
0
Employed part-time
0

Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021 (General Community Profile, by Suburb and Locality). © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. How we group bands and derive each share is set out on our methodology page.

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Common questions about Gamboola

Is Gamboola a good place to live?

There's no single answer, so we score what the public data can back. On socio-economic advantage, Gamboola rates 13/100 overall (Lower on the data we score). Public transport, schools and safety aren't scored yet — see our methodology for why.

Where is Gamboola?

Gamboola is a suburb of Queensland, Australia, in the Mareeba local government area.

What is the population of Gamboola?

At the 2021 Census, Gamboola had a population of about 3.

Is Gamboola an advantaged area?

Gamboola has an ABS SEIFA score of 904, where about 1000 is the national average — higher scores indicate greater relative socio-economic advantage. That gives it a Suburb Score of 13 out of 100 — more socio-economically advantaged than about 13% of Australian suburbs.

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