Green Island QLD 4871
Green Island is in Cairns LGA, QLD, postcode 4871, with population 20.
Verify-heavy evidence
Green Island depends on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
The page still has useful coverage, but Market rent should be treated as fallback or lower-precision evidence. Missing signals include Property prices, Schools, and Hospitals.
1,127 latest-year approvals in Cairns, +0.0% YoY; population +1.0% YoY (1.2% 5yr).
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Release-based suburb price series, not a live market feed
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.
Green Island depends on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
The page still has useful coverage, but Market rent should be treated as fallback or lower-precision evidence. Missing signals include Property prices, Schools, and Hospitals.
Verify fallback signals manually and compare against stronger nearby suburbs before treating this as a shortlist candidate.
Crime, Population growth, Building approvals
Market rent
Property prices, Schools, Hospitals, Transport
Green Island currently reads as a thin-context candidate.
Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read. 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.
Use stronger nearby reads or rankings before treating this suburb as a shortlist candidate.
Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read.
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.
Property prices, Schools, Transport
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Green Island 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 main gaps on this page are school matches, hospital coverage, and transport stops. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
Start here for context, then open compare, the state hub, or larger nearby suburbs before treating this as a complete 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 Green Island feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · rent +$13/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop +1300 · adds house price coverage · rent +$105/wk
Better covered alternative: use this as the stronger reference point before judging the thin page.
- Buyers want a quick sense of price, schools, and neighbourhood scale before getting lost in data.
- Investors want to know whether rent, yield, and affordability broadly support the suburb story.
- Researchers want one place that ties property, demographics, transport, and services together.
Price history
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
Full data detail
Green Island QLD
Green Island is a quiet locality in Queensland within the Cairns local government area (postcode 4871). With a population of 20, the suburb has a mix of young professionals and families with a median age of 34. Households earn a median income of $91K 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 +1.0% 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, community & personal service, labourers. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $125 (Census 2021).
The crime rate in the Cairns LGA is higher than average at 10,917 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +1.0% year-on-year indicates stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Green Island is a quiet locality in Queensland within the Cairns local government area (postcode 4871). With a population of 20, the suburb has a mix of young professionals and families with a median age of 34. Households earn a median income of $91K 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 +1.0% 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, community & personal service, labourers. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $125 (Census 2021).
The crime rate in the Cairns LGA is higher than average at 10,917 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +1.0% year-on-year indicates stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Green Island FAQ
Common questions-
What LGA is Green Island in?
Green Island is in the Cairns Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4871. Council-level context for Cairns LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
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What is the typical weekly rent in Green Island?
The median weekly rent in Green Island is $125/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
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Is Green Island a good investment?
QuickProperty's investment signals for Green Island show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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Where does QuickProperty get its data for Green Island?
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.
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How often is the Green Island data updated?
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.