Suburb profile
Palmerston QLD 4860
Palmerston is located in the Cairns region of Queensland, postcode 4860. It has 3 properties across 2 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Palmerston, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Palmerston
Palmerston, QLD 4860, sits in the Cairns region and neighbours East Palmerston, Koombooloomba, Maalan and Mamu. Its 2 streets hold 3 properties, all 3 of them houses and none units.
Census figures are for the Wooroonooran area, which covers part of Palmerston. At the 2021 Census the area had 4 residents, a median age of 60 and an average household of 1.5 people. Median household income was $2,250 a week, the median mortgage repayment $5,200 a month and the median rent $0 a week. Of 3 dwellings, 3 were separate houses, with none semi-detached, flats or other types. Tenure was reported as 0 owned outright, 0 owned with a mortgage and 0 rented, from a total of 3.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Palmerston
- 4Peoplelive in the area
- 60Median ageyears
- $2,250Median household incomea week
- $0Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$5,200a month
- Household size1.5people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Palmerston
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.