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Rainbow Beach QLD 4581

Rainbow Beach is located in the Wide Bay region of Queensland, postcode 4581. It has 1,606 properties across 42 streets. Explore every street in Rainbow Beach, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Rainbow Beach

Rainbow Beach, QLD 4581, sits in the Wide Bay region and neighbours Inskip and Cooloola. Its 42 streets hold 1,606 properties, 965 of them houses and 641 units.

Census figures are for Cooloola, which covers the whole suburb. At the 2021 Census Cooloola had 6,568 residents, a median age of 62 and an average household of 2 people. Median household income was $790 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,300 a month and the median rent $280 a week. Of 2,937 dwellings, 2,454 were separate houses, 156 semi-detached, 124 flats and 145 other; 1,604 were owned outright, 554 owned with a mortgage and 638 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Rainbow Beach

  • 6,568Peoplelive in the area
  • 62Median ageyears
  • $790Median household incomea week
  • $280Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,454
  • Townhouses and semis156
  • Flats and apartments124
  • Other145

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,300a month
  • Household size2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,604Owned with a mortgage 554Rented 638Other 141

Schools in Rainbow Beach

  • Rainbow Beach State School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Rainbow Beach

B

  1. Belle Court23 properties
  2. Bombala Crescent77 properties
  3. Bomburra Court29 properties
  4. Boronia Place9 properties

C

  1. Carlo Circle8 properties
  2. Carlo Road71 properties
  3. Clarkson Drive6 properties
  4. Coolberry Court19 properties
  5. Cooloola Drive95 properties
  6. Coora Court27 properties
  7. Cypress Avenue43 properties

D

  1. Double Island Drive114 properties
  2. Dulkara Court13 properties

E

  1. Esprit Drive27 properties

G

  1. Goondi Street11 properties
  2. Green Valley Drive32 properties

H

  1. Hakea Place8 properties

I

  1. Ibis Court21 properties
  2. Ilmenite Avenue18 properties
  3. Indigo Avenue19 properties

K

  1. Karoonda Road21 properties
  2. Kirchner Avenue1 property
  3. Kurana Street23 properties
  4. Kurrawa Drive8 properties

L

  1. Larapinta Court20 properties

M

  1. Manooka Drive91 properties

N

  1. Naiad Court25 properties

O

  1. Ocean View Parade31 properties
  2. Orania Street22 properties

P

  1. Pangatta Court18 properties
  2. Prospect Place27 properties

R

  1. Rainbow Beach Road108 properties
  2. Rainbow Shores Drive189 properties
  3. Redwood Court4 properties
  4. Rumbalara Avenue66 properties

S

  1. Satinwood Road41 properties
  2. Spectrum Street31 properties

T

  1. Tingira Close81 properties
  2. Turana Street1 property

W

  1. Wyvern Road78 properties

Y

  1. Yeri Drive29 properties

Z

  1. Zircon Street21 properties

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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.

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.