Suburb profile

Lower Daintree QLD 4873

Lower Daintree is located in the Cairns region of Queensland, postcode 4873. It has 69 properties across 7 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Lower Daintree, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Lower Daintree

Lower Daintree, QLD 4873, sits in the Cairns region and neighbours Coral Sea, Daintree, Kimberley and Stewart Creek Valley. Its 7 streets hold 69 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the Daintree area, which covers the whole suburb. 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 Lower Daintree

  • 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

Owned outright 944Owned with a mortgage 775Rented 674Other 122

Streets in Lower Daintree

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.