Tinbeerwah, Queensland

Tinbeerwah is a semi-rural locality in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia. In the, Tinbeerwah had a population of 1,160 people.

Geography
The Cooroy-Noosa Road runs through from west (Lake Macdonald) to east (Tewantin).

Mount Tinbeerwah is in the north of locality (-26.3902°N, 152.9752°W) rising 265 m above sea level.

The north of the locality is within the Tewantin National Park.

History
The name Tinbeerwah is Aboriginal for "place of grasstrees" or "high hill climbing up".

Tinbeerwah Provisional School opened on 2 September 1914. On 1 September 1916, it became Tinbeerwah State School. It closed on 9 August 1963.

In 1987, 12-year-old Noosa schoolgirl Sian Kingi was raped and murdered in Tinbeerwah after being abducted from Noosa Heads.

Between 2008 and 2013, Tinbeerwah (and the rest of the Shire of Noosa) was within Sunshine Coast Region but the Shire of Noosa was re-established in 2014.

Demographics
In the, Tinbeerwah had a population of 1,262.

In the, Tinbeerwah had a population of 974 people.

In the, Tinbeerwah had a population of 1,160 people.

Education
There are no schools in Tinbeerwah. The nearest government primary schools are:

The nearest government secondary school is Noosa District State High School which has its junior campus in Pomona to the north-west and its senior campus in Cooroy to the south-west.
 * Tewantin State School in neighbouring Tewantin to the east
 * Eumundi State School in neighbouring Eumundi to the south
 * Cooroy State School in Cooroy to the south-west
 * Noosaville State School in Noosaville to the east