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Mer Island QLD 4875

Mer Island is located in the Outback Queensland region of Queensland, postcode 4875. It has 116 properties across 4 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Mer Island, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Mer Island

Mer Island, QLD 4875, sits in Outback Queensland and neighbours Coral Sea. Its 4 streets hold 116 properties, 115 of them houses and 1 a unit.

At the 2021 Census the Torres Strait Islands area, which covers Mer Island, had 4,124 residents, a median age of 27 and an average household of 3.5 people. Median household income was $976 a week, the median mortgage repayment $0 a month and the median rent $130 a week. Of 1,013 dwellings, 955 were separate houses, 32 semi-detached, 5 flats and 5 other; 63 were owned outright, 3 owned with a mortgage and 906 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Mer Island

  • 4,124Peoplelive in the area
  • 27Median ageyears
  • $976Median household incomea week
  • $130Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses955
  • Townhouses and semis32
  • Flats and apartments5
  • Other5

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$0a month
  • Household size3.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 63Owned with a mortgage 3Rented 906Other 41

Schools in Mer Island

  • Tagai State College - Mer Campus

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Mer Island

  1. Koki Road5 properties
  2. Las Village15 properties
  3. Marou Road91 properties
  4. Naror Village5 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.