Cooktown is in Cook LGA, QLD, postcode 4895, with population 2,746.
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Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
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55% of homes here are owner-occupied and 36% rented, with 4% of landlords negatively geared.
A balanced 55% owner-occupier / 36% renter mix.
Social housing is 9% of dwellings — check tenant mix and resale demand.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 35% · QLD median 19%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 3% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,300/mo, while renters pay about $1,820/mo — renting runs $520/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 56% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $1,400/wk income).
Getting to work: 78% drive, 0% public transport, 10% walk or cycle, 9% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Top 33% most liveable of 4,565Australian suburbs.
Bar = this suburb's percentile · tick = typical (median) peer
Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within Australian suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
Estimated exposure to NSW RFS Bush Fire Prone Land (CC BY), point-sampled across the suburb. This shows how much of the suburb sits within the official hazard layer — it is not a Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) rating or a property-level assessment. Obtain a BAL assessment (AS 3959) for an individual property.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Cape York SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Located in Queensland within the Cook local government area, Cooktown is a smaller suburb (postcode 4895). It is home to about 2,746 residents, with an established demographic and a median age of 44. Households earn a median income of $63K per year, with an average household size of 2.3 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.1% year-on-year at the LGA level. QLD employment has moved +1.4% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. QLD also had 35 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 16 underway, and 30 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are professionals, community & personal service, managers. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and public admin & safety. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Aboriginal Australian.
The current median weekly rent is $420. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,300.
Cooktown is served by 3 schools, including 2 combined, 1 special. The average ICSEA score is 880, which is well below the national average of 1,000. Healthcare facilities include 1 public hospital. The crime rate in the Cook LGA is higher than average at 11,146 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, Population growth of +1.1% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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QVAS residential dwelling sales aggregated to SA2 and mapped to suburb pages
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Cooktown is in the Cook Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4895. Council-level context for Cook LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Cooktown is $420/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent context available.
Rent context available: Cooktown has usable rent context. Use this as a suburb screening signal before comparing candidates or modelling a purchase; the matching rent ranking can provide broader market context.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Cooktown show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.