Median elevation
536 m
range 15–1602 m
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Housing
Wooroonooran
Cairns · Queensland · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Wooroonooran (Cairns - Qld) is a leafy residential suburb of Cairns.
Median house price
No open median house price for Wooroonooran (Cairns - 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 / wk88th percentile
<$575ABS Census 2021$3,778+
Household income / wk
QLD · AU
QLD median suburb $1,531 · AU median suburb $1,562Wooroonooran (Cairns - Qld) $2,250
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
Median age
62 yrs
Income / person / wk
$1,125
Household income / wk
$2,250
▲ 47% vs QLD
Mortgage / month
$5,200
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
0%
0% 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
- 11.2 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Cairns · 60% of residents
- Also spans
- Tablelands (41%)
- Population
- 179,334 (2025) · +1.0% in a year
- Area / density
- 1,689 km² · 106/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 39 · $1,578/wk household income · $340/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $615k
- Federal grants
- $5.23M in 2025-26 · $29/resident
- Website
- cairns.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
- Kennedy
- Federal MP
- Bob Katter (KAP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 59% 2PP
- State electorate
- Hill
- State MP
- Shane Knuth (KAP)
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.