Gunpowder, 4825

0% of adults have a university degree, compared with 21.9% across Queensland. 13.5% have a trade or vocational qualification.

• Diploma qualified5.2% · 9.4% QLD
• Trade / vocational13.5% · 18.9% QLD
• Year 12 or below81.2% · 49.8% QLD

Median taxable income (2023–24)

$77,876

98th percentile in QLD · +33% vs Australia

Median salary / wages (2023–24)

$82,318

98th percentile in QLD · +27% vs Australia

Residents with rental investments

13.0%

74th percentile in QLD · -6% vs Australia

Median super balance (2023–24)

$53,721

24th percentile in QLD · -15% vs Australia

Residents with business income

5.0%

3rd percentile in QLD · -52% vs Australia

Australian Taxation Office Taxation Statistics 2023–24, individuals Table 25. Figures describe taxpayers who live in postcode 4825 — not a suburb-level official statistic. Rental investment is the share of local taxpayers reporting rental income or loss, not the share of local properties owned by investors.

40.5% of employed residents work in agriculture, forestry and fishing, 17.6× the Australian share (2.3%) — compared with 2.5% across Queensland.

Agriculture, forestry & fishing

40.5%

86th percentile in QLD · +1661% vs Australia

Resident workers (2021)

15

WHM specified work

Subclass 417 / 462

Postcode 4825

Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 Census General Community Profile tables G54 (industry of employment) and G56 (industry by occupation), Statistical Area Level (suburb), place of usual residence. Figures are residents’ main job in the week before Census night — not jobs located in the suburb. Agriculture, forestry and fishing is the 1-digit ANZSIC division; grape growing and other 3- and 4-digit industries are not in this datapack. The 2026 Census was conducted in August 2026; suburb-level updates are expected from mid-2027.

Plant and animal cultivation in postcode 4825 (Northern and Regional Australia) may count as specified work for Working Holiday Maker visas (subclasses 417 and 462). This is a postcode rule from the Home Affairs instruments — not evidence that seasonal jobs exist here, and not a count of WHM residents. Home Affairs specified work · LIN 22/012 · LIN 22/013. Compilation used: 5 April 2025.

10.4% speak a language other than English at home; 20.5% born overseas

Language at home

43 English only · 5 other

Non-English at home

10.4%

Born overseas

9 (20.5%)

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander

5 (4.8%)

Australian citizens

38

2021 Census — languages spoken at home, birthplace, Indigenous status, and religious affiliation (usual residence). Religion is optional on the Census form.

Offence counts are estimated for this suburb from postcode 4825, which is shared with other suburbs.

Reported offences are running higher than the same point last year.

2 mapped amenities

1 campgrounds

Green cover of suburb area

0%

Woodland / forest cover

0%

Parks & woodland features (OSM)

0

Parks (OSM)

0

Typical summer maximum

36°C

Green cover is the share of this suburb's boundary overlapping OpenStreetMap parks, woodland and forest polygons — not a satellite tree-canopy product. Summer maximum is the WorldClim / Open-Meteo seasonal normal already collected for Weather.

Nearest hospital

Mount Isa Base Hospital (99.8 km)

Nearest hospital type

Hospital

Nearest hospital emergency

Emergency department

GP clinics in suburb

0

GP clinic counts from OpenStreetMap. Bulk-billing figures only include clinics tagged in OSM (sparse and unofficial — not a Medicare list).

NDIS participants (31 March 2026)

1

Participants per 1,000 residents

9.3

Active NDIS participants allocated from NDIA Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2, ASGS 2016) counts to this suburb boundary. Not an official suburb-level NDIS figure · as at 31 March 2026.

For NDIS spend and service-demand exploration by SA2 or postcode, see the Care Sector Demand Map.

Typical conditions by season for suburbs in the same ~44 km climate area. Rainfall totals are summed from monthly WorldClim layers; rainy-day counts are approximate.

Bushfire planning zone

No overlay at centroid

Flood / inundation overlay

No mapped inundation on suburb boundary

Bushfire overlay checked at suburb centroid via Queensland Bushfire Prone Area mapping. Flood cover uses floodplain overlay polygons against the suburb boundary where published.

Federal electorate

Kennedy

Member of Parliament

Bob KATTER (Katter's Australian Party (KAP))

Results from

2025 federal election

Electorate enrolment (2025)

123,696

Turnout (2025)

83.8%

Swing since 2022 (2025)

+0.8 pp toward Labor

Nearest polling places

• Soldiers HillLabor 46.9% · Coalition 53.1% TPP (2025)104.7 km away
• SunsetLabor 52.2% · Coalition 47.8% TPP (2025)105.4 km away
• Mount IsaLabor 52.1% · Coalition 47.9% TPP (2025)106.4 km away
• KalkadoonLabor 60.1% · Coalition 39.9% TPP (2025)106.8 km away
• HealyLabor 51.0% · Coalition 49.0% TPP (2025)108.6 km away

Federal electorate from AEC federal division boundaries (2025 redistribution). Division-level results are official AEC figures from the latest general election, with by-election updates where applicable. The estimated suburb profile blends up to eight nearest ordinary polling booths in the same electorate using inverse-distance weighting from the suburb centroid — an approximation, not official AEC data. Nearest polling places are shown for reference.

IRSAD decile (2021)

4/10

IRSD decile (2021)

4/10

ABS Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), 2021 release — the latest available, derived from the 2021 Census. Deciles rank suburbs nationally from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).