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Yorkeys Knob sits north-west of Cairns, about 12 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 Yorkeys Knob lies inside Cairns. The map query targets Yorkeys Knob, Queensland, so a guest sees the correct locality rather than the parent image market.

Official 2021 Census evidence records 2,794 residents and 1,462 private dwellings for Yorkeys Knob. It also records 183 dwellings unoccupied on Census night, equal to 12.5%. 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 Yorkeys Knob: Holloways Beach (2.1 km straight-line), Smithfield (2.5 km straight-line), Trinity Park (3.1 km straight-line), Caravonica (4.5 km straight-line), Trinity Beach (5.1 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 Holloways Beach to the south-east and Smithfield to the west; their clean internal guides appear below.

The source profile classifies Yorkeys Knob 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 Yorkeys Knob, property proof should be published in this order: property type, bed plan, entry sequence, vehicle access, cooling and cancellation 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 Yorkeys Knob 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 Yorkeys Knob 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 1,283 occupied private dwellings in Yorkeys Knob, 36.9% are separate houses, 37.4% townhouses and 23.9% flats or apartments. A further 17 dwellings, 1.3%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

Yorkeys Knob is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 50.2% of occupied private dwellings, and 56% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 66 one-bedroom, 644 two-bedroom, 370 three-bedroom and 141 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 26 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Yorkeys Knob well below the Cairns area median of 72.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 43.9% of occupied dwellings in Yorkeys Knob kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 642 dwellings with one vehicle, 399 with two and 153 with three or more. Only 5.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

61.1% of work journeys from Yorkeys Knob were made by car on Census day. 2.8% walked or cycled. 12.5% 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 Yorkeys Knob is single-person, at 40.3% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 40.3%, with 10.2% of households at four people or more. Across 720 families, 24% were couples with children, 48.2% couples without and 25.1% one-parent families.

The median age in Yorkeys Knob was 46 at the 2021 Census, older than the Cairns area median of 39. Households averaged 2 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $310 a week, about level with the $300 median across the Cairns localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,357 a month. Median household income ran to $1,234 a week, against $781 for an individual.

Yorkeys Knob has a substantial rental base, with 45.9% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 26% mortgaged and 25.2% owned outright. That is 589 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Yorkeys Knob 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 (SAL33223) 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.