Cairns - Southern Hinterlands vs Tully - Cardwell - Jumbun

Cairns - Southern Hinterlands and Tully - Cardwell - Jumbun are two rural Queensland areas located about 74 km apart. Tully - Cardwell - Jumbun is far more walkable; 61.2% of its homes are within a 15-minute walk of a park, compared to just 18.4% in Cairns - Southern Hinterlands. Similarly, more people in Tully - Cardwell - Jumbun can walk to groceries (33.6% versus 12.6%) and health services (26.5% versus 11.9%). First Nations residents are far older in Cairns - Southern Hinterlands, where the typical age is 34, while the typical age in Tully - Cardwell - Jumbun is 25.

Both areas have First Nations household incomes that sit near the national figure, though Cairns - Southern Hinterlands is well higher at $1,468 compared to $1,142 in Tully - Cardwell - Jumbun. They share similar levels of First Nations unemployment, around 18%, and neither area has any homes within a 10-minute walk of public transport. While Tully - Cardwell - Jumbun is mostly car-dependent and Cairns - Southern Hinterlands is car-dependent, the gap in their walkability scores has remained a steady feature.