Suburb profile

Te Kowai QLD 4740

Te Kowai is located in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region of Queensland, postcode 4740. It has 110 properties across 13 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Te Kowai, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Te Kowai

Te Kowai, QLD 4740, sits in the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region and neighbours Alexandra, Bakers Creek, Ooralea and Palmyra. Its 13 streets hold 110 properties, 105 of them houses and 5 units.

Census figures are for the Walkerston - Eton area. There it had 8,457 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.8 people. Median household income was $2,105 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month and the median rent $330 a week. Of 2,811 dwellings, 2,469 were separate houses, 329 semi-detached and 10 flats; 9 were other dwellings. Of the same 2,811, 1,031 were owned outright, 1,198 owned with a mortgage and 480 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Te Kowai

  • 8,457Peoplelive in the area
  • 38Median ageyears
  • $2,105Median household incomea week
  • $330Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,469
  • Townhouses and semis329
  • Flats and apartments10
  • Other9

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,733a month
  • Household size2.8people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,031Owned with a mortgage 1,198Rented 480Other 102

Streets in Te Kowai

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.