In the 2021 census, the locality of Woorabinda had a population of 1,019 people with 91.6% identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

[citation needed] Access is via the Fitzroy Developmental Road, which is sealed north towards Duaringa and where it meets the Capricorn Highway to Rockhampton.

[citation needed] Wadja (also known as Wadjigu, Wadya, Wadjainngo, Mandalgu, and Wadjigun) is an Australian Aboriginal language in Central Queensland.

The relocation has also been attributed to governmental fears of Aboriginal loyalty to the German Lutheran pastor and possibly against non-Aboriginal Australian interests in favour of the Japanese.

The 254 Aboriginal residents, of Guugu Yimithirr identity, were forcibly relocated; initially to Townsville via road and boat, and then via train to the ironback dormitory at Woorabinda.

During this time, informal Lutheran church services and ministering were maintained by the evacuees to hold onto their Christian beliefs, creating a core strength of spiritual leadership within this group.

[citation needed] Many died from sickness and exposure due to the poor sanitation and inadequate shelter from the frost and cold winter nights of the inland climate, which the Guugu Yimithirr peoples would not have previously experienced, as they were from a warm, humid coastal climate.

[citation needed] In the 2006 census, the town of Woorabinda had a population of 851 people with 94.6% identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

[16] In the 2016 census, the locality of Woorabinda had a population of 962 people with 94.7% identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

[17] In the 2021 census, the locality of Woorabinda had a population of 1,019 people with 91.6% identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

[19] Government service providers are the main source of employment, with local industry in the form of the takeaway cafe and Woorabinda Pastoral Company, owned by the council.

[35][36] The area claimed for the Wadja people is limited to the Woorabinda current land geography; the Gangulu nation expands as far south as Theodore, west past Blackwater, and east to Mount Morgan.

[1] In 2017, the Kulgoodah dancers from Woorabinda won the Dance Rites competition, which had been founded by Rhoda Roberts.

Roberts credits dance and music with having turned around the youth in the community, helping to give especially the young men "visibility and a sense of purpose".

The singer-songwriter Miiesha emerged from this dance group, and in 2020 won the Best New Talent at the National Indigenous Music Awards.