Suburb profile
Barron QLD 4878
Barron is located in the Cairns region of Queensland, postcode 4878. It has 171 properties across 8 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Barron, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Barron
Barron, QLD 4878, sits in the Cairns region and neighbours Aeroglen, Freshwater, Holloways Beach and Smithfield. Its 8 streets hold 171 properties, 167 of them houses and 4 units.
Census figures are for the Redlynch area, which covers the whole of Barron. Redlynch had 13,784 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.9 people. Median household income was $2,193 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,800 a month and the median rent $420 a week. Of 4,499 dwellings, 4,079 were separate houses, 122 semi-detached, 244 flats and 30 other; 1,212 were owned outright, 2,272 owned with a mortgage and 954 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Barron
- 13,784Peoplelive in the area
- 38Median ageyears
- $2,193Median household incomea week
- $420Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses4,079
- Townhouses and semis122
- Flats and apartments244
- Other30
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,800a month
- Household size2.9people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Barron
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.