Manoora, QLD 4870

Everywhere you look houses are being sold and renovated or knocked down and rebuilt. A lot of those are the housing commission is being sold off. So the demographic is changing really fast. Lots of young professionals buying who were priced out of edge hill.

The raintrees shopping center is almost through the first phase of upgrade. Cafes are opening in the area. With the limited amount of land close to the city and the recent booms in neighbouring suburbs it will have a positive effect on housing prices. Its location is close to the city with multiple bus routes. Easy commute on bike or scooter.

Crime everywhere. Stealing cars, break ins, fights and drugs all around.

Look at the crime stats. 3 times more crime than anywhere in the Southern or Northern suburbs.

I know all my neighbours who are lovely. Gardens are well kept and I always feel safe.

People talk about the crime but as a local I watch the daily police reports and it comes up very rarely. Northern beaches and southern suburbs are much more frequent. It would be a good datascience project to record the prevalence. Looking up police reports they dont breakdown to suburb unfortunately.
Yes there is housing commission in the area, but the building and gardens are well kept.

It's not the safest suburb and like some people have posted, the 4870 postcode crime rates are amongst the highest in QLD, however, if you can't afford nicer suburbs Manoora is a good place to settle with your first home. There are pockets of good streets, but you do get a lot of crime.
It's affordable and you can always move onto a better suburb down the track.

I've been broken into more times than I can count. The rent is cheap, that's why I have stayed in Manoora. But after having my car windows smashed in a few weeks ago it's time to move on.
Manoora is cheap for a reason and I would love to see it change. One day it will I hope.

I am.baffled how Manoora has snuck in. It is a ghetto. People, ease don't try to sell your crappy Manoora houses to unsuspecting southerners who don't know any better. Shame on you.

It's cheap for a reason. Cairns locals have a saying. Avoid the M suburbs. Crime, break and enters, violence, this is the suburb.

Everything is walking distance.
There are multiple buses that give you a 10-20 minute ride the Cairns Central or Stocklands.

Raintrees is upgrading the Woolies and adding a Big W.

Has some "bad streets" but when you go down them they still look well kept and nice places to live.

Houses are still half the price compared to suburbs a couple of kms away. You can still get quarter acre blocks too.

With beautiful treelined streets Manoora is a handy suburb that you can walk most places.
There are plenty of bus lines covering it and you can get into cairns central in 10-20minutes.