Dicky Beach is a suburb of South Eastern,
Queensland and is about 77 kms north of QLD's
capital city of Brisbane. In the 2011 Australian
census the population of Dicky Beach was 1,758
when there were 926 Females and 832 Males
living there. The median age for people living in
Dicky Beach was 47.
Dicky Beach is both a beach and suburb of the
Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia,
located within the Caloundra urban centre.
The area was named after the iron steamboat, the
SS Dicky (226 gross tons), which ran aground
during heavy seas on 12 February 1893.