IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 959
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 4 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 5 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Queensland economy.
Housing
Farrars Creek
Queensland · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Farrars Creek is a bushland suburb of Barcoo.
Median house price
No open median house price for Farrars Creek.
Queensland sells its property sales records through licensed brokers rather than publishing them openly, so there is no official suburb median we can show. ABS median established-house price, Greater Brisbane: $1.1M; Rest of Qld: $815k.
People & housing
Population
16
Median age
19 yrs
Income / person / wk
$850
Socio-economic profile
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 988
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 4 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 5 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 1,002
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 4 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 4 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 879
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 2 of 10
Scores are standardised across Australia to a mean of 1,000 and a standard deviation of 100. Deciles run from 1 (most disadvantaged) to 10 (least disadvantaged).
Source: ABS SEIFA 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
Terrain & hazard exposure
Median elevation
125 m
range 61–303 m
Land below 5 m
0%
0% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Includes the potential-impact buffer around bushfire prone vegetation. Mapping vintages differ by region (South East Queensland 2017, elsewhere 2014). Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled. No open statutory flood layer is published for Queensland yet.
Planning & zoning
Listed heritage places
0
State-listed only (Qld Heritage Register)
Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Queensland has no statewide zoning map — each council publishes its own. Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 328.6 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Barcoo
- Population
- 321 (2025) · +1.9% in a year
- Area / density
- 61,830 km² · 0/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 38 · $1,875/wk household income · $100/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2021-22)
- $60k
- Federal grants
- $7.79M in 2025-26 · $24,276/resident
- Website
- barcoo.qld.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2021-22. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Maranoa
- Federal MP
- David Littleproud (LNP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 74% 2PP
- State electorate
- Gregory
- State MP
- Sean Dillon (LNP)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); Bushfire Prone Area — Queensland series, Queensland Fire Department (CC BY 4.0); Queensland Heritage Register boundaries, Queensland Government (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.