Machans Beach QLD 4878

Living Here

Machans Beach is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 943 people, with a median age of 47. The typical household earns around $1,610 a week, with median rent near $370 a week. Most homes are houses. About 71% of households own their home and 28% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Yorkeys Knob - Machans Beach statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Machans Beach itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 3 schools

  • Machans Beach State School
  • Holloways Beach Environmental Education Centre
  • Freshwater State School
• 15 cafés & restaurants

  • Mayhem at Machans
  • O'Sheas Restaurant & Bar
  • Richard's Salt & Pepper Takeway
  • Holloways Pizza & Pasta
  • Thai Spicy Dish
  • Strait On The Beach
  • Pickles Restaurant & Bar
  • The Cape Cafe & Bar
  • Sipping Duck
  • Sugar + Cane

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• 2 supermarkets

  • Spar
  • Jonsson's Farm Market
• 11 parks

  • Machans Beach Sporting Facility
  • Keith Edwick Park
  • Tea Tree Park
  • Sandpiper Park
  • Tamarind Reserve
  • San Remo Park
  • Raintree Park
  • Syd and Jane Granville Park
  • Fred Hessels Park
  • Pandanus Park

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• 1 pharmacy

  • Stratford Village Pharmacy
• 1 optometrist

  • Eye Love
• 4 hospitals

  • Cairns North Community Health Facility
  • Cairns Hospital
  • Cairns Private hospital
  • Medicare Centre
• 1 vet

  • Ulysses Vet Clinic
• 1 childcare centre

  • C&K Holloways Beach Community Kindergarten
• 1 library

  • Stratford Library
• 2 post offices

  • Australia Post
  • Stratford LPO
• 3 service stations

  • Machans Beach Store & Post
  • Caltex
  • Stratford Servo
• 1 gym

  • Holloways Beach Sporting Complex
• 1 golf club

  • Half Moon Bay Golf Club
• 1 dog park

  • Holloways Beach Dog Exercise Area
• 1 butcher

  • Marsh Butcheries
• 2 hardware stores

  • Bunnings Warehouse
  • Total Tools
• 1 hairdresser

  • As you like it
• 2 mechanics

  • Cairns Auto Electrical
  • Croft Auto
• 2 plumbers

  • Reece Plumbing
  • Reece Plumbing
• 5 places to stay

  • Cairns Beach Resort
  • Tree Tops Lodge Cairns
  • Lilybank Bed and Breakfast
  • Summer House
  • Edge Apartments

Getting around. Train station: Freshwater, 5.1 km south-west · Bus interchange: Airport Connect Terminal 1, 2.4 km south-east · Airport: Cairns Airport, 2.7 km south.

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Socio-economic Standing

Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.

Tree cover

🌳 Tree canopy: 48.8% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.

Demographics

Unemployment 7.2% · Labour-force participation 63.3%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

54,379 bird observations recorded near Machans Beach — most often seen:

• Common Myna (2,987)
• Willie Wagtail (2,937)
• Peaceful Dove (2,871)
• Magpie-lark (2,492)
• White-breasted Woodswallow (2,348)
• Masked Lapwing (2,211)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (2,182)
• Brown Honeyeater (2,132)
• Mistletoebird (2,106)
• Torresian Imperial-pigeon (1,981)
• Bar-shouldered Dove (1,967)
• Rainbow Bee-eater (1,886)
• Welcome Swallow (1,885)

Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.

Nearby Suburbs

The closest suburbs to Machans Beach:

• Holloways Beach (1.7 km)
• Aeroglen (3.1 km)
• Stratford (3.1 km)
• Barron (4.7 km)
• Freshwater (4.8 km)
• Edge Hill (5.4 km)
• Yorkeys Knob (5.5 km)
• Whitfield (6.1 km)

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