Suburb profile
Portsmith QLD 4870
Portsmith is located in the Cairns region of Queensland, postcode 4870. It has 1,138 properties across 31 streets. Explore every street in Portsmith, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Portsmith
Portsmith, QLD 4870, sits in the Cairns region and neighbours Cairns City, East Trinity, White Rock and Woree. Its 31 streets hold 1,138 properties, 579 of them houses and 559 units.
Census figures are for the Westcourt - Bungalow area. It had 6,519 residents, a median age of 39 and an average household of 2 people. Median household income was $1,154 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,300 a month and the median rent $280 a week. Of 2,650 dwellings, 1,045 were separate houses, 531 semi-detached, 1,027 flats and 29 other; 471 were owned outright, 484 owned with a mortgage and 1,520 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Portsmith
- 6,519Peoplelive in the area
- 39Median ageyears
- $1,154Median household incomea week
- $280Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses1,045
- Townhouses and semis531
- Flats and apartments1,027
- Other29
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,300a month
- Household size2people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Portsmith
- Aumuller Street98 properties
- Bollard Street30 properties
- Bramp Close18 properties
- Buchan Street54 properties
- Bunda Street29 properties
- Comport Street36 properties
- Cook Street39 properties
- Draper Street42 properties
- Dutton Street26 properties
- Elphinstone Close5 properties
- Fearnley Street66 properties
- Hartley Street167 properties
- Hasell Street9 properties
- Hollingsworth Street32 properties
- Kenny Street40 properties
- Knight Street25 properties
- Liberty Street7 properties
- Lyons Street23 properties
- Morrison Street40 properties
- Owen Close17 properties
- Palmer Street40 properties
- Plath Close22 properties
- Ray Jones Drive2 properties
- Recovery Way1 property
- Redden Street52 properties
- Spence Street49 properties
- Tingira Street64 properties
- Toohey Street74 properties
- Trawler Base Road6 properties
- Walters Street4 properties
- William Street21 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.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.