Shelburne is in Cook LGA, QLD, postcode 4874, with population 44.
The page is still useful for local context, but the evidence stack is too thin for a clean one-page call. Use nearby stronger suburbs or compare mode before treating it as a serious shortlist decision.
Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
This suburb 26% · QLD median 19%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 13% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,890/mo, while renters pay about $953/mo — owning runs $937/mo higher on these medians.
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, Shelburne is a small, quiet locality (postcode 4874). The area has roughly 44 residents and a more retirement-aged population, with a median age of 57. Households earn a median income of $43K per year, with an average household size of 1.5 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 top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Scottish.
The median weekly rent is $220 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,890.
The crime rate in the Cook LGA is higher than average at 11,146 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, 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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Much of Shelburne rests on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
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QVAS residential dwelling sales aggregated to SA2 and mapped to suburb pages
This gives you directional coverage, but it is weaker than a current rent release.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Shelburne is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
Small-population localities can still be worth checking, but rankings, comparisons, and broad suburb assumptions become noisier faster.
The lighter areas here are school matches, hospital coverage, and transport stops, so a single-page read should carry less weight than usual.
Use it for context first, then move to compare, the state hub, or a larger nearby suburb before calling it a full market decision.
This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
This page is useful for direction-setting, not closure. Use it to frame the locality, then confirm the story with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Shelburne feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · rent -$121/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop same
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
Shelburne is in the Cook Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4874. 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 Shelburne is $220/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Shelburne 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.