Suburb profile
Maalan QLD 4886
Maalan is located in the Cairns region of Queensland, postcode 4886. It has 26 properties across 5 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Maalan, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Maalan
Maalan, QLD 4886, sits in the Cairns region and neighbours Beatrice, Koombooloomba, Palmerston and Middlebrook. Its 5 streets hold 26 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for the Malanda - Yungaburra area, not Maalan alone. At the 2021 Census the area had 9,095 residents, a median age of 51 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,296 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,430 a month and the median rent $260 a week. Of 3,408 dwellings, 3,219 were separate houses, 34 semi-detached, 60 flats and 72 other; 1,666 were owned outright, 904 owned with a mortgage and 679 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Maalan
- 9,095Peoplelive in the area
- 51Median ageyears
- $1,296Median household incomea week
- $260Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3,219
- Townhouses and semis34
- Flats and apartments60
- Other72
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,430a month
- Household size2.4people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Maalan
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.