Suburbs with the biggest blocks in Cairns
Bayview Heights has the biggest house blocks, with a median of 810 m². These 15 suburbs came from a field of 30 eligible Cairns suburbs.
This ranking orders Cairns suburbs by the median land area of a house block: every lot in the suburb that holds a single address, measured from the state's land titles map. Strata and dual-occupancy sites are left out, so a block of flats does not count as one big block.
Suburbs whose median block is over 2,000 m² are listed separately as acreage, because ranked together they would fill the whole list with semi-rural land on the edge of the city. A suburb needs at least 1,000 residents and 50 house blocks to be ranked, and between 15 and 60 single-address lots per 100 residents: fewer means mostly apartments, more means mostly industry. Lots come from the state land titles maps of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT; Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not publish theirs openly, so there is no ranking there.
Cairns suburbs with the biggest house blocks
Ranked on the median land area of a house block: lots holding one address, so strata and dual-occupancy sites are left out. Suburbs whose median block is over 2,000 m² are in the acreage list instead.
Bayview Heights
QLD 4868 · 4,175 residents810 m² median house block · 1,718 house blocks
Stratford
QLD 4870 · 1,198 residents810 m² median house block · 561 house blocks
Clifton Beach
QLD 4879 · 3,192 residents809 m² median house block · 1,286 house blocks
Brinsmead
QLD 4870 · 5,537 residents803 m² median house block · 2,123 house blocks
Woree
QLD 4868 · 5,127 residents800 m² median house block · 1,708 house blocks
Freshwater
QLD 4870 · 2,142 residents788 m² median house block · 881 house blocks
Caravonica
QLD 4878 · 2,183 residents780 m² median house block · 877 house blocks
Whitfield
QLD 4870 · 4,262 residents779 m² median house block · 1,858 house blocks
Edge Hill
QLD 4870 · 4,088 residents757 m² median house block · 1,662 house blocks
Kewarra Beach
QLD 4879 · 6,133 residents753 m² median house block · 2,627 house blocks
Mooroobool
QLD 4870 · 7,136 residents740 m² median house block · 2,648 house blocks
White Rock
QLD 4868 · 4,918 residents740 m² median house block · 1,742 house blocks
Redlynch
QLD 4870 · 10,571 residents737 m² median house block · 3,743 house blocks
Edmonton
QLD 4869 · 11,409 residents722 m² median house block · 4,448 house blocks
Kanimbla
QLD 4870 · 2,827 residents722 m² median house block · 1,108 house blocks
Ranked from 30 qualifying suburbs.
Cairns acreage suburbs
Suburbs whose median house block is over 2,000 m², ranked on that median.
Too few Cairns suburbs qualify for this list to rank them: it needs at least 8.
Common questions about this ranking
What are the suburbs with the biggest blocks in Cairns?
Bayview Heights has the biggest house blocks, with a median of 810 m². These 15 suburbs came from a field of 30 eligible Cairns suburbs.
How is block size measured for Cairns suburbs?
From the state land titles map: every lot in the suburb that holds exactly one address, with its area calculated from the lot boundary. The figure is the median of those lots, so half the suburb's house blocks are bigger and half smaller. Strata lots and blocks shared by several addresses are left out.
Why are acreage suburbs listed separately?
Suburbs whose median block is over 2,000 m² are mostly semi-rural land on the edge of the city. Ranked together with suburban streets they would fill the whole list, so they have a list of their own.
Why is a suburb I know has big blocks missing?
A suburb needs at least 1,000 residents and 50 house blocks, and between 15 and 60 single-address lots per 100 residents. Fewer means the suburb is mostly apartments with a few large commercial lots; more means it is mostly industry. Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not publish their land titles maps openly, so suburbs there are not ranked.
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Rankings last computed 12 October 2026. Recomputed after each ACARA schools data refresh.
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