Suburb profile

Racecourse QLD 4740

Racecourse is located in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region of Queensland, postcode 4740. It has 128 properties across 13 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Racecourse, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Racecourse

Racecourse, QLD 4740, sits in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region and neighbours Bakers Creek, Foulden, Ooralea and Te Kowai. Its 13 streets hold 128 properties, 124 of them houses and 4 units.

Census figures are for the Ooralea - Bakers Creek area. It had 5,941 residents, a median age of 36 and an average household of 2.7 people. Median household income was $2,149 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,820 a month and the median rent $410 a week. Of 1,980 dwellings, 1,776 were separate houses, 109 semi-detached and 69 other; none were flats. Of the same 1,980, 569 were owned outright, 823 owned with a mortgage and 508 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Racecourse

  • 5,941Peoplelive in the area
  • 36Median ageyears
  • $2,149Median household incomea week
  • $410Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,776
  • Townhouses and semis109
  • Other69

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,820a month
  • Household size2.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 569Owned with a mortgage 823Rented 508Other 80

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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.