Suburb profile

Cooktown QLD 4895

Cooktown is located in the Outback Queensland region of Queensland, postcode 4895. It has 2,226 properties across 120 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Cooktown, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Cooktown

Cooktown, QLD 4895, sits in Outback Queensland and neighbours Coral Sea, Hope Vale, Lakeland and Laura. Its 120 streets hold 2,226 properties, 1,992 of them houses and 234 units.

Census figures are for the Cape York area. It had 7,803 residents, a median age of 35 and an average household of 2.7 people. Median household income was $1,063 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,286 a month and the median rent $130 a week. Of 2,337 dwellings, 1,988 were separate houses, 122 semi-detached and 47 flats; 142 were other types. Tenure split into 576 owned outright, 293 owned with a mortgage and 1,214 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Cooktown

  • 7,803Peoplelive in the area
  • 35Median ageyears
  • $1,063Median household incomea week
  • $130Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,988
  • Townhouses and semis122
  • Flats and apartments47
  • Other142

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,286a month
  • Household size2.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 576Owned with a mortgage 293Rented 1,214Other 254

For sale and rent in Cooktown

Andrew RogatoAndrew Rogato

$770,000

5 Helen Street, Cooktown QLD 4895

4 bedrooms 3 bathrooms 2 car spaces House

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Properties in Cooktown

Schools in Cooktown

  • Cooktown State School

    GovernmentPrimary and secondary

  • Endeavour Christian College

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

Local agents in Cooktown

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Agencies that specialise in Cooktown

Streets in Cooktown

A

  1. Adelaide Street37 properties
  2. Alexandra Avenue1 property
  3. Amos Street23 properties
  4. Ann Street27 properties
  5. Annan Road3 properties
  6. Armbrust Street5 properties
  7. Asmuss Street2 properties

B

  1. Baird Road12 properties
  2. Banks Close3 properties
  3. Banks Street6 properties
  4. Barramundi Boulevard26 properties
  5. Barretts Creek Road7 properties
  6. Bauhinia Street7 properties
  7. Boundary Street68 properties
  8. Bradbury Street15 properties
  9. Brandt Close6 properties
  10. Brown Street2 properties
  11. Buhmann Street16 properties
  12. Burkitt Street6 properties

C

  1. Cameron Creek Road3 properties
  2. Chace Close7 properties
  3. Charles Street26 properties
  4. Charlotte Street167 properties
  5. Clay Close8 properties
  6. Clerk Street5 properties
  7. Cooktown Developmental Road1 property
  8. Cycad Close8 properties

E

  1. Emily Street4 properties
  2. Endeavour Valley Road144 properties
  3. Esk Valley Road3 properties

F

  1. Ferrari Street1 property
  2. Flaggy Road5 properties
  3. Flinders Street27 properties
  4. Furneaux Street51 properties

G

  1. Gampe Drive1 property
  2. Garden Street70 properties
  3. Green Street24 properties
  4. Gum Tree Close9 properties
  5. Guzsely Road6 properties

H

  1. Hagarty Close6 properties
  2. Hannam Street6 properties
  3. Harrigan Street7 properties
  4. Harry Heaths Close13 properties
  5. Helen Street92 properties
  6. Hill Street2 properties
  7. Hip On Street3 properties
  8. Hogg Street17 properties
  9. Holzapfel Road1 property
  10. Hope Street172 properties
  11. Howard Street66 properties
  12. Hutchinson Street13 properties

I

  1. Ida Street28 properties
  2. Idress Drive8 properties
  3. Ironwood Avenue12 properties
  4. Irwin Street8 properties

J

  1. Jensens Crossing Road11 properties
  2. John Street50 properties

K

  1. Keable Street2 properties
  2. Kellehaven Road7 properties
  3. Kellerhaven Road7 properties
  4. Kerr Street21 properties
  5. Kimberley Street26 properties
  6. Knight Lane1 property

L

  1. Lee Road2 properties

M

  1. Mac Millan Street1 property
  2. Macmillan Street1 property
  3. Mangrove Street8 properties
  4. Mason Street26 properties
  5. May Street94 properties
  6. Melaleuca Street8 properties
  7. Milman Street3 properties
  8. Minke Road2 properties
  9. Morris Drive2 properties
  10. Mount Amos Road10 properties
  11. Mt Amos Road4 properties
  12. Mulligan Highway14 properties
  13. Murdoch Road2 properties

N

  1. Neill Close5 properties
  2. Newman Street26 properties

O

  1. Oaky Creek Road15 properties
  2. Old Dairy Road1 property

P

  1. Palmer Road1 property
  2. Pandamus Street1 property
  3. Parkinson Street14 properties
  4. Pascoe Street4 properties
  5. Pebble Close9 properties
  6. Percy Road2 properties
  7. Poison Creek Road14 properties
  8. Police Camp Road6 properties
  9. Power Street18 properties
  10. Pryde Street30 properties

Q

  1. Quarantine Bay Esplanade11 properties
  2. Quarantine Bay Road24 properties

R

  1. Racecourse Road37 properties
  2. Railway Avenue58 properties
  3. Rainforest Street10 properties
  4. Ratcliffe Road1 property
  5. Reid Street2 properties
  6. Roberts Street3 properties
  7. Ronnie Street1 property
  8. Ryder Road3 properties

S

  1. Saunder Street6 properties
  2. Savage Street31 properties
  3. Schwartz Street10 properties
  4. Seagren Street14 properties
  5. Shambrook Road1 property
  6. Sienna Access3 properties
  7. Slaughter Yard Road31 properties
  8. Slaughteryard Road1 property
  9. Smoko Lane4 properties
  10. Solander Road4 properties
  11. Starke Street44 properties

T

  1. The Esplanade18 properties

U

  1. Unit Street4 properties

W

  1. Walker Street57 properties
  2. Walsh Close10 properties
  3. Wawu Lane39 properties
  4. Webber Esplanade27 properties
  5. Wilkinson Street10 properties
  6. Wilton Access Road18 properties

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.

School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.

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