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
For sale and rent in Cooktown
Properties in Cooktown
Schools in Cooktown
Cooktown State School
GovernmentPrimary and secondary
Endeavour Christian College
IndependentPrimary and secondary
Cooktown State School
GovernmentPrimary and secondary
Endeavour Christian College
IndependentPrimary and secondary
Holy Spirit College
CatholicSpecial
Local agents in Cooktown


Dean Gallo
Property Sales REMAX Impact - Mareeba
Last 12 months
- Properties sold
- 10
- Median sold price
- $480k
- Median days on market
- 33


Andrew Rogato
Auctioneer & Rural Property Sales REMAX Impact - Mareeba
Last 12 months
- Properties sold
- 9
- Median sold price
- $940k
Agencies that specialise in Cooktown
Streets in Cooktown
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- Baird Road12 properties
- Banks Close3 properties
- Banks Street6 properties
- Barramundi Boulevard26 properties
- Barretts Creek Road7 properties
- Bauhinia Street7 properties
- Boundary Street68 properties
- Bradbury Street15 properties
- Brandt Close6 properties
- Brown Street2 properties
- Buhmann Street16 properties
- Burkitt Street6 properties
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- Hagarty Close6 properties
- Hannam Street6 properties
- Harrigan Street7 properties
- Harry Heaths Close13 properties
- Helen Street92 properties
- Hill Street2 properties
- Hip On Street3 properties
- Hogg Street17 properties
- Holzapfel Road1 property
- Hope Street172 properties
- Howard Street66 properties
- Hutchinson Street13 properties
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- Mac Millan Street1 property
- Macmillan Street1 property
- Mangrove Street8 properties
- Mason Street26 properties
- May Street94 properties
- Melaleuca Street8 properties
- Milman Street3 properties
- Minke Road2 properties
- Morris Drive2 properties
- Mount Amos Road10 properties
- Mt Amos Road4 properties
- Mulligan Highway14 properties
- Murdoch Road2 properties
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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.

