Suburb profile

Lake Macdonald QLD 4563

Lake Macdonald is located in the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland, postcode 4563. It has 763 properties across 52 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Lake Macdonald, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Lake Macdonald

Lake Macdonald, QLD 4563, sits in the Sunshine Coast region and neighbours Cooroibah, Cooroy, Cooroy Mountain and Ringtail Creek. Its 52 streets hold 763 properties, 748 of them houses and 15 units.

Census figures are for the Noosa Hinterland area, which covers the whole suburb. At the 2021 Census the area had 24,207 residents, a median age of 49 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $1,496 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,800 a month and the median rent $415 a week. Of 8,662 dwellings, 8,296 were separate houses, 229 flats, 68 semi-detached and 43 other. Tenure was 3,871 owned outright, 3,417 owned with a mortgage and 1,103 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Lake Macdonald

  • 24,207Peoplelive in the area
  • 49Median ageyears
  • $1,496Median household incomea week
  • $415Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses8,296
  • Townhouses and semis68
  • Flats and apartments229
  • Other43

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,800a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 3,871Owned with a mortgage 3,417Rented 1,103Other 271

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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.