Suburb profile
Bamboo Creek QLD 4860
Bamboo Creek is located in the Cairns region of Queensland, postcode 4860. It has 39 properties across 6 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Bamboo Creek, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Bamboo Creek
Bamboo Creek, QLD 4860, sits in the Cairns region and neighbours Stoters Hill, Pin Gin Hill, Mundoo and Wangan. Its 6 streets hold 39 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for the Johnstone area, which covers the whole suburb. Johnstone had 8,002 residents, a median age of 47 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,301 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,300 a month and the median rent $250 a week. Of 2,935 dwellings, 2,827 were separate houses, 32 semi-detached, 11 flats and 50 other. Of the same 2,935, 1,376 were owned outright, 837 owned with a mortgage and 565 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Bamboo Creek
- 8,002Peoplelive in the area
- 47Median ageyears
- $1,301Median household incomea week
- $250Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses2,827
- Townhouses and semis32
- Flats and apartments11
- Other50
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,300a month
- Household size2.4people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Bamboo Creek
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.