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Clifton Beach sits north-west of Cairns, about 20 km away in a straight line. The parent relationship determines the approved image and wider guide link; it must not be rewritten as a driving distance or a claim that Clifton Beach lies inside Cairns. The map query targets Clifton Beach, Queensland, so a guest sees the correct locality rather than the parent image market.

Official 2021 Census evidence records 3,192 residents and 1,540 private dwellings for Clifton Beach. It also records 263 dwellings unoccupied on Census night, equal to 17.1%. The record is a populated locality retained through the resident-population threshold. None of those measures establishes tourism, bookings, occupancy performance, accommodation supply or short-stay demand.

Five retained localities provide a practical map check around Clifton Beach: Kewarra Beach (2.3 km straight-line), Palm Cove (2.5 km straight-line), Trinity Beach (3.9 km straight-line), Trinity Park (5.7 km straight-line), Smithfield (7.3 km straight-line). These are geographic reference points calculated from the official locality coordinates, not claims about road distance, travel time, shared attractions or a single accommodation market. Guests should receive address-specific directions and current operator links after the host verifies the route. The two closest retained references are Kewarra Beach to the south-east and Palm Cove to the north; their clean internal guides appear below.

The source profile classifies Clifton Beach as a metropolitan suburb. That makes regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits, practical multi-night stays sensible planning prompts, not measured demand segments. A useful page should help those guests test fit through the property's verified capacity, sleep setup, kitchen and laundry facilities, work surface, cooling, parking, accessibility and stay rules. In Clifton Beach, property proof should be published in this order: sleep configuration, check-in, steps or lifts, workspace, laundry and payment terms. Each statement needs a host-supplied fact, current photograph, booking-engine setting or checked arrival instruction behind it. If proof is absent, the page should ask for it rather than imply a feature, view, walking time, transport frequency or local service.

Arrival clarity for Clifton Beach begins at the real address. State whether a guest approaches by sealed road, shared driveway, lobby, stairs, lift or external path; explain where a vehicle may legally stop; identify the key or lockbox sequence; and tell late arrivals when detailed directions are sent. Verify every route and access claim before publication, because locality coordinates and the Cairns reference cannot answer property-level questions.

Direct-booking positioning for Clifton Beach should stay commercially calm. Keep active marketplace listings, rates and availability aligned while the host builds an owned website, consent-based follow-up and a recognisable local page. Explain inclusions, payment timing, cancellation terms and support contacts consistently. The point is to add a credible booking choice and retain the guest relationship, not to criticise platforms or promise savings, ranking, occupancy or revenue.

Of 1,274 occupied private dwellings in Clifton Beach, 66.8% are separate houses, 4.1% townhouses and 21.5% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Clifton Beach is three-bedroom at 33.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 71.7% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 39 one-bedroom, 303 two-bedroom, 422 three-bedroom and 408 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 83 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Clifton Beach close to the Cairns area median of 72.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 54.1% of occupied dwellings in Clifton Beach kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 541 dwellings with one vehicle, 458 with two and 222 with three or more. Only 3.3% recorded no motor vehicle.

61.3% of work journeys from Clifton Beach were made by car on Census day. 2.8% walked or cycled. 15.2% worked from home, which is a fair proxy for whether the internet here is good enough to sell a stay on.

The commonest household in Clifton Beach is two-person, at 42.2% of households. 25.1% live alone and 17.5% of households hold four people or more. Across 927 families, 31.6% were couples with children, 51.5% couples without and 16.6% one-parent families.

The median age in Clifton Beach was 48 at the 2021 Census, older than the Cairns area median of 39. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $365 a week, above the $300 median across the Cairns localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,820 a month. Median household income ran to $1,480 a week, against $808 for an individual.

Tenure in Clifton Beach split 34.4% owned outright, 28.9% mortgaged and 34.9% rented in 2021. That is 444 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Clifton Beach at the 2021 Census. None of it describes visitors, nightly rates, occupancy or short-stay supply, and it must not be presented as if it did. Its use is to set expectations a host can then confirm from the property itself: the real bedroom count and bed layout, how many vehicles the space genuinely takes and whether that space is on-title or on-street, the actual route to the door, and the house rules a street of this kind will expect around noise and turnover.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks (SAL30625) and ABS ASGS Edition 3 locality framework and ABS 2021 Census DataPacks, Suburbs and Localities tables G02 medians and averages, G29 family composition, G34 motor vehicles, G35 household composition, G36 dwelling structure, G37 tenure, G41 bedrooms and G62 travel to work. Census figures provide locality context only and do not measure short-stay demand.