Myrtlevale, Queensland


Myrtlevale is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Myrtlevale had a population of 205 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the south-west by the North Coast railway line, but there are no stations serving the locality.
The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the south, slightly east of the railway line. It continues northwards through the locality until it reaches the northern boundary of the locality, where it turns to the west and forms part of the northern boundary until the north-west corner of the locality where it exits to the north-west.
A discontiguous section of the Conway National Park is in the north-east of the locality. Apart from this protected area, the land use is predominantly growing sugarcane with some grazing on native vegetation.
There is a network of cane tramways to transport the harvested sugarcane to the local sugar mill.

Demographics

In the, Myrtlevale had a population of 161 people.
In the, Myrtlevale had a population of 205 people.

Education

There are no schools in Myrtlevale. The nearest government primary and secondary schools are Proserpine State School and Proserpine State High School, both in Proserpine to the south.