IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 962
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 4 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 5 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Queensland economy.
Housing
Preston
Whitsunday · Queensland · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Preston (Whitsunday - Qld) is a leafy residential suburb of Whitsunday.
Median house price
No open median house price for Preston (Whitsunday - Qld).
Queensland sells its property sales records through licensed brokers rather than publishing them openly, so there is no official suburb median we can show. ABS median established-house price, Greater Brisbane: $1.1M; Rest of Qld: $815k.
How it compares
Household income / wk67th percentile
<$575ABS Census 2021$3,778+
Household income / wk
QLD · AU
QLD median suburb $1,531 · AU median suburb $1,562Preston (Whitsunday - Qld) $1,803
Percentiles rank this suburb against Queensland suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in Queensland and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Population
346
Median age
47 yrs
Income / person / wk
$792
Household income / wk
$1,803
▲ 18% vs QLD
Median rent / wk
$200
Mortgage / month
$1,517
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 27%
- −3 pts vs QLD
- Living alone
- 13%
- −11 pts vs QLD
- Unemployment
- 4%
- −2 pts vs QLD
- In the labour force
- 64%
- +2 pts vs QLD
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 7%
- −15 pts vs QLD
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 19%
- −5 pts vs QLD
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 9%
- −2 pts vs QLD
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. QLD figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Housing stock
120 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 98%
- Flat or apartment 0%
- Semi, terrace & other 3%
QLD: 74% separate houses · 13% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 43%
- Mortgaged 45%
- Rented 10%
- Other & not stated 2%
QLD: 29% owned outright · 34% mortgaged · 33% rented
ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Socio-economic profile
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 1,009
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 5 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 6 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 1,048
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 7 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 7 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 909
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within QueenslandDecile 3 of 10
Scores are standardised across Australia to a mean of 1,000 and a standard deviation of 100. Deciles run from 1 (most disadvantaged) to 10 (least disadvantaged).
Source: ABS SEIFA 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
Terrain & hazard exposure
Median elevation
18 m
range 0–282 m
Land below 5 m
17%
4.8% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Includes the potential-impact buffer around bushfire prone vegetation. Mapping vintages differ by region (South East Queensland 2017, elsewhere 2014). Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled. No open statutory flood layer is published for Queensland yet.
Planning & zoning
Listed heritage places
0
State-listed only (Qld Heritage Register)
Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Queensland has no statewide zoning map — each council publishes its own. Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 37%
- Top language at home
- English only
- No religion
- 37%
- Born overseas
- 14%
- English only at home
- 98%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 7.1 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Whitsunday
- Population
- 41,374 (2025) · +1.8% in a year
- Area / density
- 23,819 km² · 2/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 40 · $1,472/wk household income · $300/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $515k
- Federal grants
- $5.81M in 2025-26 · $140/resident
- Website
- whitsunday.qld.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Dawson
- Federal MP
- Andrew Willcox (LNP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 62% 2PP
- State electorate
- Whitsunday
- State MP
- Amanda Camm (LNP)
Where it is in Queensland
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Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); Bushfire Prone Area — Queensland series, Queensland Fire Department (CC BY 4.0); Queensland Heritage Register boundaries, Queensland Government (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.