The Palms, Queensland
The Palms is a rural residential area in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. It covers about 15.7 square kilometres and is located around 10.5 km west of Gympie and 188 km north of Brisbane. The Mary River forms its northern and north‑eastern boundary, and the land sits between 40 and 170 metres above sea level.
Most of The Palms is used for rural residential living, with some land in the north‑west used for grazing on native vegetation. The locality was named on 9 October 1982 and its boundaries were set on 1 December 2000.
Population: 1,010 people in 2016 and 1,083 people in 2021, giving a density of about 69 people per square kilometre.
There are no schools within The Palms. The nearest government primary school is Gympie South State School in Southside to the east, and the nearest government secondary school is James Nash State High School in Gympie to the east.
Postcode: 4570. Time zone: AEST (UTC+10).
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 14:43 (CET).