Building approvals, live development applications and major projects across the Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham statistical area — covering Burdekin, Charters Towers and Hinchinbrook and 1 more.
These four figures are deliberately not added together. An application, an approval and a project under construction are often the same building at three points in its life, measured by three different bodies with three different lags. Read them as a sequence, not a total.
What councils and certifiers have formally permitted — the ABS series, published about four months in arrears.
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing homes, with Queensland and Australia for comparison. This is the same activity as the totals view, divided by the size of the area — which is the only fair way to compare a large SA3 with a small one.
Dwelling approvals a year per 1,000 residents, each year divided by that year’s estimated resident population (ABS ERP at 30 June), not by today’s — which matters most in fast-growing areas, where a fixed denominator can understate the early years by half. The most recent periods use the latest published ERP, as the population series runs a year behind approvals. Read it alongside the per-100-homes view: the two differ wherever household size does.
Dwelling units approved each financial year. The dashed line is the five-year average of 87.
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing dwellings.
Detached houses as a share of existing homes, against the share of recent approvals.
Share of each year’s approvals.
The same approvals, measured against the population they have to house.
People added for every new address verified, against the size of an average local household.
A bar longer than the household average means the area gained more residents than its new housing could hold, and the extra had to be absorbed by existing homes.
Dwellings a year: what is currently being approved, against what the 2041 population projection implies.
dwellings approved a year per 1,000 residents. No population projection is published for this area.
What is funded and moving — the projects large enough to change how Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham works, ranked by committed value and how close they are to delivery.
The Queensland Energy Roadmap (released October 2025) replaced the former Energy and Jobs Plan SuperGrid Blueprint, shifting from rigid renewable percentage targets to a reliability and emissions-reduction…
Gawara Baya Wind Farm is a fully approved renewable energy project on Gugu Badhun Country near Mount Fox, about 65 km south-west of Ingham in North Queensland. Developed by Windlab, it comprises about 399-400…
Major Townsville water security project extending the Haughton Pipeline from the Haughton River to the Burdekin River near Clare. Stage 2 includes about 28.5 km of large diameter raw water pipeline, pump…
8 further projects in Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham are not listed here.
Combined values on this page exclude 2 whole-of-state programs that reach this area but are not local to it. Both are still listed above with their own values.
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Beyond 2030: a further $480m across 1 project with completion dates further out — mostly precinct-scale programs whose dates are indicative. Kept out of the chart so the years you can act on stay readable.
Estimated value of tracked projects by the year they are due to complete, stacked by how certain they are. The dark band is money already being spent; the pale band is still an intention. Estimates are indicative and mix infrastructure cost with whole-of-precinct development value, so read the shape rather than the totals.
Applications and major projects plotted where they are actually proposed, with the 31 projects AreaSearch tracks here on their own tab — filterable by type, delivery stage, area and committed value. To search every application on record rather than this sample, use the section above.
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| Local government area | Share of Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham | Applications on record | Register read to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burdekin | 40% of residents | 2 | No dates published |
| Charters Towers | 28% of residents | — | Not yet collected |
| Hinchinbrook | 26% of residents | — | Not yet collected |
| Palm Island | 5.1% of residents | — | Not yet collected |
The same view of building approvals, applications and major projects for areas neighbouring Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham.
Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham is Statistical Area Level 3 31801 in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (2021 edition), made up of 7 Statistical Areas Level 2. It has an estimated 42,879 residents, +3.4% since the 2021 Census.
| Measure | Source | To |
|---|---|---|
| Dwelling approvals, five-year average | ABS / AreaSearch | June 2026 |
| House share of approvals | ABS / AreaSearch | June 2026 |
| Residents per approval | ABS / AreaSearch | June 2026 |
| Value per approved dwelling | ABS / AreaSearch | June 2026 |
| Commercial work approved | ABS / AreaSearch | June 2026 |
| Verified new addresses since the Census | Address register / AreaSearch | May 2026 |
| Major projects | Infrastructure Australia / state agencies / AreaSearch | Ongoing |
Figures on this page are read live from the AreaSearch database each time it loads, so they update as soon as a source does.
The ABS recorded 78 dwelling approvals across Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham in the 2024-25 financial year, against a five-year average of 87 a year.
AreaSearch tracks 23 current major projects in Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham, 7 of them under construction. The largest include Queensland Energy Roadmap - SuperGrid Infrastructure Program, Gawara Baya Wind Farm and Haughton Pipeline Stage 2.
Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham is an ABS Statistical Area Level 3. It is covered by parts of 4 local government areas — Burdekin, Charters Towers, Hinchinbrook and Palm Island. AreaSearch publishes development figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries, so they reconcile with the official ABS series.
On development approvals, Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham is adding new dwellings more slowly than Queensland as a whole — 0.24 approvals per 100 existing dwellings a year against the state figure of 0.77.
ABS building approvals are published with a lag of roughly four months; this page carries the series to June 2026. Development applications are collected from council planning portals and refresh continuously. Major project records are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Each section carries its own currency label so the four are never confused.
Development data is provided for general information. Estimated values, dwelling counts and delivery dates come from the lodging or delivering party and are not independently verified by AreaSearch. Confirm anything material with the relevant council or agency before relying on it.