Suburb profile

St Helens Beach QLD 4798

St Helens Beach is located in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region of Queensland, postcode 4798. It has 178 properties across 15 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in St Helens Beach, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About St Helens Beach

St Helens Beach, QLD 4798, sits in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region and neighbours Pindi Pindi, Mentmore, Calen and Coral Sea. Its 15 streets hold 178 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the Seaforth - Calen area. At the 2021 Census the area had 8,181 residents, a median age of 47 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $1,661 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,755 a month and the median rent $250 a week. Of 2,839 dwellings, 2,714 were separate houses, 45 semi-detached, 18 flats and 45 other; 1,239 were owned outright, 1,112 owned with a mortgage and 355 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in St Helens Beach

  • 8,181Peoplelive in the area
  • 47Median ageyears
  • $1,661Median household incomea week
  • $250Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,714
  • Townhouses and semis45
  • Flats and apartments18
  • Other45

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,755a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,239Owned with a mortgage 1,112Rented 355Other 133

Properties in St Helens Beach

Streets in St Helens Beach

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.