Wongaling Beach is in Cassowary Coast LGA, QLD, postcode 4852, with population 1,323.
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Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,517/mo, while renters pay about $1,950/mo — renting runs $433/mo higher on these medians.
Wongaling Beach is a close-knit residential community in Queensland within the Cassowary Coast local government area (postcode 4852). It is home to about 1,323 residents, with a settled, mature resident base and a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $65K per year, with an average household size of 2.2 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.0% year-on-year at the LGA level. QLD employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. QLD also had 32 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 12 underway, and 50 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are professionals, labourers, managers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and accommodation & food. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The current median weekly rent is $450. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,517.
Wongaling Beach is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 991, which is around the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Cassowary Coast LGA is moderate at 5,827 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, Population growth of +1.0% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Wongaling Beach is in the Cassowary Coast Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4852. Council-level context for Cassowary Coast LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Wongaling Beach is $450/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent context available.
Rent context available: Wongaling Beach 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 Wongaling Beach 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.