Australian Local Government Area

Sunshine Coast, QLD

Local government area demographic profile. Aggregated from AUSynth-generated suburb data, calibrated to ABS Census 2021.

Population

~375,384

Families

~159,691

Suburbs

114

State

QLD

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Suburbs in this LGA (top 12 by population)

Buderim 4556~34,612 people
Maroochydore 4558~22,722 people
Nambour 4560~13,369 people
Mountain Creek, QLD 4557~13,171 people
Sippy Downs 4556~12,707 people
Little Mountain 4551~12,189 people
Bli Bli 4560~11,150 people
Peregian Springs 4573~10,478 people
Coolum Beach 4573~10,082 people
Mooloolaba 4557~9,039 people
Beerwah 4519~8,502 people
Pelican Waters 4551~8,134 people

102 more suburbs in this LGA. Suburb-level demographic profiles available at /demographics.

Methodology

LGA-level figures here are aggregated from AUSynth-generated suburb data. The underlying synthetic individuals are reconstructed from ABS Census 2021 conditional tables using Bayesian methods; the full methodology is at /docs/methodology.