Suburb profile

Wonga Beach QLD 4873

Wonga Beach is located in the Cairns region of Queensland, postcode 4873. It has 710 properties across 38 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Wonga Beach, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Wonga Beach

Wonga Beach, QLD 4873, sits in the Cairns region and neighbours Bamboo, Coral Sea, Rocky Point and Whyanbeel. Its 38 streets hold 710 properties, 666 of them houses and 44 units.

Census figures are for the Daintree statistical area, which covers the whole suburb. At the 2021 Census the area had 6,674 residents, a median age of 47 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $1,201 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,408 a month and the median rent $260 a week. Of 2,515 dwellings, 2,235 were separate houses, 101 semi-detached, 111 flats and 49 other; 944 were owned outright, 775 owned with a mortgage and 674 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Wonga Beach

  • 6,674Peoplelive in the area
  • 47Median ageyears
  • $1,201Median household incomea week
  • $260Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,235
  • Townhouses and semis101
  • Flats and apartments111
  • Other49

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,408a month
  • Household size2.3people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 944Owned with a mortgage 775Rented 674Other 122

Schools in Wonga Beach

  • Wonga Beach State School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Wonga Beach

Neighbouring suburbs

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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.

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Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.