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Karumba QLD 4891

Karumba is located in the Outback Queensland region of Queensland, postcode 4891. It has 490 properties across 18 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Karumba, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Karumba

Karumba, QLD 4891, sits in Outback Queensland and neighbours Howitt, Gulf Of Carpentaria and Normanton. Its 18 streets hold 490 properties, 435 of them houses and 55 units.

Census figures are for the Carpentaria area, which has 4,921 residents, a median age of 30 and an average household of 3 people. Median household income is $1,279 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,042 a month and the median rent $125 a week. Of 1,319 dwellings, 933 were separate houses, 155 semi-detached, 83 flats and 111 other; 234 were owned outright, 70 owned with a mortgage and 848 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Karumba

  • 4,921Peoplelive in the area
  • 30Median ageyears
  • $1,279Median household incomea week
  • $125Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses933
  • Townhouses and semis155
  • Flats and apartments83
  • Other111

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,042a month
  • Household size3people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 234Owned with a mortgage 70Rented 848Other 167

Schools in Karumba

  • Karumba State School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Karumba

  1. Anderson Street8 properties
  2. Carron Street16 properties
  3. Clarina Street24 properties
  4. Col Kitching Drive35 properties
  5. Col Kitching Road22 properties
  6. Esplanade6 properties
  7. Fielding Street10 properties
  8. Gilbert Street3 properties
  9. Henry Street67 properties
  10. Karumba Developmental Road59 properties
  11. Lynch Close14 properties
  12. Massey Drive5 properties
  13. Norman Street11 properties
  14. Palmer Street29 properties
  15. Riverview Drive60 properties
  16. Walker Street24 properties
  17. Ward Street5 properties
  18. Yappar Street92 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.