Median elevation
3 m
range 0–155 m
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Housing
Shelly Beach
Townsville · Queensland · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Shelly Beach (Townsville - Qld) is a coastal suburb of Townsville.
Median house price
No open median house price for Shelly Beach (Townsville - 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.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
53%
45% 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.
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 7.9 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Townsville
- Population
- 206,260 (2025) · +1.1% in a year
- Area / density
- 3,731 km² · 55/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 36 · $1,701/wk household income · $305/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $456k
- Federal grants
- $6.27M in 2025-26 · $30/resident
- Website
- townsville.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
- Herbert
- Federal MP
- Phillip Thompson (LNP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 63% 2PP
- State electorate
- Townsville
- State MP
- Adam Baillie (LNP)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (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.