Suburb profile

Shute Harbour QLD 4802

Shute Harbour is located in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region of Queensland, postcode 4802. It has 94 properties across 9 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Shute Harbour, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Shute Harbour

Shute Harbour, QLD 4802, sits in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region and neighbours Whitsundays and Mount Rooper. Its 9 streets hold 94 properties, all of them houses.

At the 2021 Census the Airlie - Whitsundays area, whose figures are used here, had 14,523 residents, a median age of 36 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,674 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month and the median rent $370 a week. Of 4,558 dwellings, 2,849 were separate houses, 478 semi-detached, 949 flats and 144 other; 1,084 were owned outright, 1,517 owned with a mortgage and 1,833 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Shute Harbour

  • 14,523Peoplelive in the area
  • 36Median ageyears
  • $1,674Median household incomea week
  • $370Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,849
  • Townhouses and semis478
  • Flats and apartments949
  • Other144

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,733a month
  • Household size2.4people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,084Owned with a mortgage 1,517Rented 1,833Other 124

Streets in Shute Harbour

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.