Suburb profile

Silky Oak QLD 4854

Silky Oak is located in the Cairns region of Queensland, postcode 4854. It has 116 properties across 13 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Silky Oak, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Silky Oak

Silky Oak, QLD 4854, sits in the Cairns region and neighbours Euramo, Jarra Creek, Lower Tully and Mount Mackay. Its 13 streets hold 116 properties, 115 of them houses and 1 a unit.

Census figures are for the Tully area, not Silky Oak alone. Tully had 10,999 residents, a median age of 48 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $1,190 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,300 a month and the median rent $265 a week. Of 4,237 dwellings, 3,546 were separate houses, 239 semi-detached, 302 flats and 113 other; 1,731 were owned outright, 1,031 owned with a mortgage and 1,225 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Silky Oak

  • 10,999Peoplelive in the area
  • 48Median ageyears
  • $1,190Median household incomea week
  • $265Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses3,546
  • Townhouses and semis239
  • Flats and apartments302
  • Other113

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,300a month
  • Household size2.3people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,731Owned with a mortgage 1,031Rented 1,225Other 250

Streets in Silky Oak

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.