shelter for up to 800 people. The shelter was opened by Premier Campbell Newman in January 2013. In March 2018, flood waters inundated properties in Ingham following heavy rain. Demographics In the , the locality of Ingham had a population of 4,426 people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 7.6% of the population. 81.2% of people were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was Italy at 5.0%. 82.5% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Italian at 7.2%. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 45.8%, Anglican 15.5%, No Religion 13.1%. Heritage listings Ingham has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Old Bruce Highway: Gairloch Bridge 15 Lannercost Street: Ingham Post Office 5 Lynch Street: Ruth Fairfax House 35-39 Palm Terrace: Ingham Court House Climate Ingham has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification Am). Like the rest of Far North Queensland, it has a very humid and hot wet season that runs from November to April and a very warm and less humid dry season that runs from May to October. Ingham is part of the Queensland Wet Tropics bioregion. Economy Ingham is the service centre for many sugarcane plantations, which are serviced by the two sugar mills located in the Ingham district: Victoria Sugar Mill (located approximately 6 km from Ingham), which is the largest sugar mill in Australia and one of the largest in the southern hemisphere, and Macknade Mill, which is the oldest operating sugar mill in Queensland. Both mills are owned and operated by Wilmar Sugar Australia Limited. The majority of the cane is transported to the mills by light tramlines. Once processed by the mills, the raw sugar is then transported by tramline to the bulk sugar terminal at the nearby seaside port of Lucinda and loaded onto ships for export via the longest pier in the southern hemisphere (4.75 km long). Other industries in the Ingham area include cattle, watermelons, rice, horticulture, fishing, timber and tourism. Education Ingham State School is a government primary (Early Childhood-6) school for boys and girls at 28 McIlwraith Street (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 334 students with 29 teachers (24 full-time equivalent) and 25 non-teaching staff (13 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program. Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School is a Catholic primary (Prep-6) school for boys and