Suburb profile
Cow Bay QLD 4873
Cow Bay is located in the Cairns region of Queensland, postcode 4873. It has 253 properties across 24 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Cow Bay, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Cow Bay
Cow Bay, QLD 4873, sits in the Cairns region and neighbours Coral Sea, Diwan, Kimberley and Noah. Its 24 streets hold 253 properties, 251 of them houses and 2 units.
Census figures are for the Daintree area, which covers the whole suburb. At the 2021 Census Daintree had 6,674 residents, a median age of 47 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $1,201 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,408 a month and the median rent $260 a week. Of 2,515 dwellings, 2,235 were separate houses, 101 semi-detached, 111 flats and 49 other; 944 were owned outright, 775 owned with a mortgage and 674 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Cow Bay
- 6,674Peoplelive in the area
- 47Median ageyears
- $1,201Median household incomea week
- $260Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses2,235
- Townhouses and semis101
- Flats and apartments111
- Other49
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,408a month
- Household size2.3people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Cow Bay
- Baileys Creek Road15 properties
- Black Bean Road12 properties
- Bloodwood Road3 properties
- Buchanan Creek Road32 properties
- Cape Tribulation Road17 properties
- Cedar Road9 properties
- Cypress Road12 properties
- Fig Tree Road8 properties
- Hickory Road9 properties
- Kauri Close13 properties
- Maple Road10 properties
- Pandanus Road2 properties
- Penda Close2 properties
- Quandong Road14 properties
- Red Gum Road4 properties
- Rosewood Road8 properties
- Silkwood Road9 properties
- Silky Oak Road8 properties
- Silver Ash Road15 properties
- Spurwood Road17 properties
- Teak Road5 properties
- Tulip Oak Road2 properties
- Wattle Close13 properties
- White Beech Road14 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.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.