Suburb profile

Palm Island QLD 4816

Palm Island is located in the Townsville region of Queensland, postcode 4816. It has 1,127 properties across 84 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Palm Island, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Palm Island

Palm Island, QLD 4816, sits in the Townsville region and neighbours Coral Sea. Its 84 streets hold 1,127 properties, 1,099 of them houses and 28 units.

At the 2021 Census Palm Island had 2,098 residents, a median age of 26 and an average household of 3.7 people. Median household income was $977 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,167 a month and the median rent $125 a week. Of 491 dwellings, 427 were separate houses, 3 semi-detached, 40 flats and 17 other; 7 were owned outright, none were owned with a mortgage and 454 were rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Palm Island

  • 2,098Peoplelive in the area
  • 26Median ageyears
  • $977Median household incomea week
  • $125Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses427
  • Townhouses and semis3
  • Flats and apartments40
  • Other17

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,167a month
  • Household size3.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 7Rented 454Other 30

Schools in Palm Island

  • Bwgcolman Community School

    GovernmentPrimary and secondary

  • St Michael's Catholic School

    CatholicPrimary

Streets in Palm Island

B

  1. Babinda Street9 properties
  2. Banfield Drive12 properties
  3. Beach Road27 properties
  4. Bennet Blanket Snr Road5 properties
  5. Bentley Street38 properties
  6. Bottletree Lane7 properties
  7. Boulder Court12 properties
  8. Butler Bay Road61 properties

C

  1. Clump Point Road35 properties
  2. Clump Point Street1 property
  3. Coconut Grove Road15 properties
  4. Conway Close4 properties
  5. Cooktown Street9 properties
  6. Coutts Street11 properties
  7. Creek Road8 properties

D

  1. Dee Street24 properties
  2. Dormitory Drive12 properties

E

  1. Esplanade20 properties

F

  1. Farm Road45 properties
  2. Frank Laura Court19 properties
  3. Frank Laura Crescent11 properties

G

  1. George Friday Senior Lane2 properties
  2. George Friday Street1 property
  3. Gribble Street25 properties

H

  1. Haines Crescent6 properties
  2. Haines Road14 properties
  3. Haines Street14 properties
  4. Halifax Road6 properties
  5. Halifax Street7 properties

J

  1. Jacob Street5 properties
  2. Joinery Lane14 properties

K

  1. Kalkadoon Road27 properties

L

  1. Les Foster Court2 properties
  2. Lulia Lulia Drive17 properties
  3. Luma Luma Street19 properties

M

  1. Main Street12 properties
  2. Mango Avenue42 properties
  3. Mangrove Avenue2 properties
  4. Maytown Close7 properties
  5. Maytown Crescent7 properties
  6. Mossman Street10 properties
  7. Murray Crescent9 properties
  8. Murray Lane10 properties

N

  1. Nallajah Lane2 properties

P

  1. Palm Valley Road2 properties
  2. Palmer Crescent10 properties
  3. Paradise Crescent13 properties
  4. Park Road38 properties
  5. Pick A Box Lane2 properties
  6. Prior Street8 properties
  7. Pror Street1 property
  8. Pryor Street6 properties
  9. Puttaburra Crescent5 properties
  10. Puttaburra Lane6 properties

R

  1. Reservoir Ridge Road7 properties
  2. Ruben Crescent31 properties
  3. Ryan Circuit35 properties

S

  1. Sailor Street16 properties
  2. Sam Road10 properties
  3. Sam Street12 properties
  4. School Lane5 properties
  5. Serenity Crescent6 properties
  6. Serenity Road16 properties
  7. Sibley Lane5 properties
  8. Small Bay Road1 property
  9. Solomon Road14 properties
  10. Stanley Lane25 properties
  11. Stanley Street28 properties
  12. Sunai Court3 properties
  13. Sundowner Ridge Road25 properties
  14. Sunset Crescent20 properties
  15. Sunset Road16 properties

T

  1. Tarpaulin Drive12 properties
  2. Tarpolen Drive4 properties
  3. Thiday Road1 property
  4. Thompson Street4 properties
  5. Treasure Road9 properties
  6. Treasure Street5 properties
  7. Two Street1 property

W

  1. Waanyi Court9 properties
  2. Waanyi Crescent10 properties
  3. Wallaby Point Road15 properties
  4. Watson Crescent37 properties
  5. Wilson Street9 properties

Neighbouring suburbs

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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.

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Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.