Kinchant Dam suburb profile
Kinchant Dam is a rural locality in the Mackay region centred on the Kinchant Dam reservoir. The landscape mixes open farmland and native bush framing the water, with a recreation area that draws people for boating, fishing, picnics and camping and offers broad, lakeside views.
Settlement is low-density, made up of holiday cabins, rural residential lots and farms, with services clustered around the dam's picnic and camping amenities. The locality is reached by local roads from the surrounding towns and retains a quiet, outdoors-oriented character focused on lake-based recreation and rural living.
Kinchant Dam property market performance
Kinchant Dam recorded one house sale over the last 3 months. There are no published median prices for houses or units because too few properties of either type have sold here recently for a median to be published.
| Houses | Units | |
|---|---|---|
Median price Past 3 months | N/A | N/A |
Change in value Past 12 months | N/A | N/A |
Sold Past 3 months | 1 | N/A |
Median days on market Past 12 months | N/A | N/A |
Average rent Past 12 months | N/A | N/A |
Change in rent Past 12 months | N/A | N/A |
Kinchant Dam demographics
Kinchant Dam is a community of families with children, many households owning their homes outright, and incomes above the median for Queensland.
Couples with children account for 53.8% of families while couples without children make up 46.2%. At the 2021 Census 183 people lived in Kinchant Dam.
| Suburb | QLD | |
|---|---|---|
Median age years | 41 | 38 |
Median household income weekly | $2,250 | $1,675 |
Couples with children share of families | 53.8% | 41.2% |
Couples without children share of families | 46.2% | 40.3% |
One-parent families share of families | n/a | 16.8% |
Homes owned outright share of homes | 42.0% | 30.1% |
Homes with a mortgage share of homes | 46.0% | 35.6% |
Homes rented share of homes | 12.0% | 34.3% |
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