Atherton Tablelands, QLD
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Drive to the coast
57 min
By road
Nearest major hospital
11 min
By road
Airport access
1h 23m
By road
Schools access
Good
Average daytime temp
25.7°C
Rainfall
Wet
Yungaburra is a heritage village on the Atherton Tablelands, set among crater lakes, rainforest and dairy country at about 700 metres above sea level. About 1,300 people live in the village, the median age is 53 and the wider Malanda-Yungaburra area has grown by about 13% since 2016. The village keeps many of its early-1900s buildings and hosts a monthly market and the Tablelands Folk Festival, and platypus can be watched at dusk on Peterson Creek.
Houses have a median of about $750,000 across the surrounding area, above Atherton and Herberton but below the Queensland median. The village has a primary school of its own, with high schools at Malanda and Atherton about 10km away, and Atherton Hospital is around 11 minutes by road. The climate is milder than the coast, with summer days averaging about 28.5C, cool winter nights and about 1,320mm of rain.
Cairns Airport is around 1 hour 25 minutes away and Brisbane more than 20 hours by road. Yungaburra suits people who want small-village life with lakes and forest on the doorstep, and works best for those who can drive to Atherton for bigger shops and to Cairns for anything larger.
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Retirees, couples, artists and remote workers who want a settled village with lakes, forest and a real community are the clearest fit. Families are workable, with a primary school in the village and high schools at Malanda and Atherton. Local work is mostly hospitality, tourism, farming and services, so many residents work in Atherton or are retired.
The village is small and shopping is limited to a FoodWorks supermarket and local shops: Atherton, around 11 minutes away, is the main service centre, so a car is essential. Cairns Airport is around 1 hour 25 minutes away and Brisbane more than 20 hours by road. Rainfall is around 1,320mm and the upland climate brings cloud and damp in the wet season. Visitor numbers rise around the markets and festivals. The population trend covers the whole Malanda-Yungaburra area, so it describes the region rather than the village alone.
Watch for platypus on Peterson Creek
Walk around Lake Eacham
See the Curtain Fig Tree
Median house price
$750,000
19% below the QLD median
Median attached price (townhouse/apartment)
$490,000
Sourced from Queensland Government Statistician's Office · 12 months ending 31 March 2026
Healthcare access
Excellent
Shopping & everyday services
Moderate
Supermarket within 10km, limited other retail
Internet connection
Fixed line
Plus 2 more within 20km — showing the 8 closest.
Job market by industry
Healthcare — 16%
Largest share of local jobs
Employment figures cover this town's wider statistical region, not the town alone — you'll see the same figures for Cairns, Cape Tribulation, Mission Beach, Palm Cove, Port Douglas, Herberton, Kuranda and Atherton.
The score ranks this region against other regions for the same occupation, not against other jobs here — a low score means it isn't a regional stronghold for that field, not that there are no vacancies. Counts online job advertisements, so trades and farm work hired by word of mouth are undercounted, and outside capital cities this is published at a regional level larger than one town.
Yungaburra (SAL 33230) · 2021 Census
Older than the country as a whole: 32.5% are 65 or over against 17.2% nationally, and 14.5% are children against 18.2%. Among households, couples without children outnumber couples with them (55.5% of families against 29.9%), and home ownership is high at 75.5% of dwellings against 65.9% nationally.
Population
1,272
Population growth
+13.3%
Malanda - Yungaburra (SA2 306051169)
Median age
53 years
Labour force participation
54.4%
Growth is measured across the wider area named under the figure, which can be a different size to the town.
Share of total population in each band — rounding means these won't land on exactly 100%.
Couples are a share of total families; lone-person households are a share of total households — different bases, not one breakdown.
Median personal income
$722
Per week · ≈ $37,544/year
Median family income
$1,638
Per week
Median household income
$1,296
Per week
Personal is one person's income; family and household cover everyone living together — a single-income household will show a lower household figure than its highest earner's personal one. Personal income also covers every resident aged 15 and over, retirees included, so it reads low in a town with an older population even where household income is solid.
Owner-occupied
75.5%
Rented
21.3%
Born in Australia
76.8%
Born overseas
16%
Doesn't sum to 100% — people who didn't state a birthplace are excluded rather than redistributed.