Suburb profile

Shelly Beach QLD 4551

Shelly Beach is located in the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland, postcode 4551. It has 546 properties across 24 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Shelly Beach, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Shelly Beach

Shelly Beach, QLD 4551, sits in the Sunshine Coast region and neighbours Moffat Beach and Kings Beach. Its 24 streets hold 546 properties, 441 of them houses and 105 units.

Census figures are for the Moffat Beach - Battery Hill area. At the 2021 Census it had 8,130 residents, a median age of 48 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $1,503 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,000 a month and the median rent $400 a week. Of 3,168 dwellings, 2,282 were separate houses, 532 semi-detached, 275 flats and 69 other; 1,216 were owned outright, 890 owned with a mortgage and 958 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Shelly Beach

  • 8,130Peoplelive in the area
  • 48Median ageyears
  • $1,503Median household incomea week
  • $400Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,282
  • Townhouses and semis532
  • Flats and apartments275
  • Other69

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,000a month
  • Household size2.3people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,216Owned with a mortgage 890Rented 958Other 104

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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.