Shelly Beach is a coastal suburb of Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. In the , Shelly Beach had "no people or a very low population".
As its name suggests, Shelly Beach is a coastal area with a sandy beach. It was named because it was an area used to collect shell grit. Despite being a suburb, it is undeveloped land within the Townsville Town Common Conservation Park with no road access other than tracks.
The suburb's name derives from the shell grit along the sea shore.
In the , Shelly Beach had "no people or a very low population".
In the , Shelly Beach had "no people or a very low population".