Suburb profile

Airlie Beach QLD 4802

Airlie Beach is located in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region of Queensland, postcode 4802. It has 2,148 properties across 41 streets, mostly units. Explore every street in Airlie Beach, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Airlie Beach

Airlie Beach, QLD 4802, sits in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region and neighbours Cannonvale, Mandalay, Whitsundays and Cape Conway. Its 41 streets hold 2,148 properties, 1,449 of them units and 699 houses.

Census figures are for the Airlie - Whitsundays area. It had 14,523 residents, a median age of 36 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,674 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month and the median rent $370 a week. Of 4,558 dwellings, 2,849 were separate houses, 478 semi-detached and 949 flats, with 144 other; 1,084 were owned outright, 1,517 owned with a mortgage and 1,833 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Airlie Beach

  • 14,523Peoplelive in the area
  • 36Median ageyears
  • $1,674Median household incomea week
  • $370Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,849
  • Townhouses and semis478
  • Flats and apartments949
  • Other144

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,733a month
  • Household size2.4people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,084Owned with a mortgage 1,517Rented 1,833Other 124

Streets in Airlie Beach

Neighbouring suburbs

Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.

Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.