IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 844
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 1 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Queensland economy.
Housing
Poruma Island
Queensland · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Poruma Island is a leafy residential suburb of Torres Strait Island.
Household income
$1,399/wk42nd pctile
of 3,112 QLD suburbs
Amenity score
6/10034th pctile
of 1,584 rated QLD suburbs
Median house price
No open median house price for Poruma Island.
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.
How it compares
Household income / wk42nd percentile
<$575ABS Census 2021$3,778+
Percentiles rank this suburb against Queensland suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in Queensland and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Population
164
Median age
31 yrs
Income / person / wk
$559
Household income / wk
$1,399
▼ 9% vs QLD
Median rent / wk
$130
Who lives here
- Unemployment
- 4%
- −1 pts vs QLD
- In the labour force
- 55%
- −7 pts vs QLD
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 5%
- −17 pts vs QLD
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 34%
- +10 pts vs QLD
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 5%
- −6 pts vs QLD
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. QLD figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Housing stock
45 occupied private dwellings
ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Socio-economic profile
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 755
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 1 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 648
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 1 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 932
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 3 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 5 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
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). 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.
Local amenities
Schools
0
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
0
Libraries
1
GP clinics
1
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
1
Nearest supermarket
99.3 km
Nearest train
802.2 km
Nearest hospital
0.2 km
Distance to coast
8.7 km
Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- Other Christian · 66%
- Top language at home
- Australian Indigenous languages · 48%
- No religion
- —
- Born overseas
- —
- English only at home
- 3%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 1 / 0 / 0
- Primary / Secondary
- 1 / 0
- Nearest secondary
- 109.9 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Torres Strait Island
- Population
- 4,298 (2025) · +0.5% in a year
- Area / density
- 490 km² · 9/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 27 · $976/wk household income · $130/wk rent
- Federal grants
- $17.01M in 2025-26 · $3,957/resident
- Website
- tsirc.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. 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
- Leichhardt
- Federal MP
- Matt Smith (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 56% 2PP
- State electorate
- Cook
- State MP
- David Kempton (LNP)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); ACARA School Locations (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (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.