Bakers Creek is a rural town and coastal locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Bakers Creek had a population of 1,590 people. Bakers Creek is located 8 kilometres south of Mackay. The Bruce Highway and the North Coast railway line traverse the locality from south to north, passing the town which is served by the Bakers Creek railway station with a second railway station Dundula in the north of the locality. The Dundula railway station was named on 30 October 1913 by J. Strachan, the Mackay railway traffic manager of the Queensland Railways Department as an Aboriginal word meaning eucalypt tree. In turn, the surrounding neighbourhood and also the school are named Dundula.
Population: 1,590 (2021 census)
Postcode(s): 4740
Area: 20.6 km² (8.0 sq mi)
Location: 9.3 km (6 mi) SSW of Mackay CBD · 971 km (603 mi) NNW of Brisbane
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