Site 86 at Coolum Beach Holiday Park has been home for Bob Davidson and his wife, Bev, since 2007.

He and his caravan-dwelling mates at Coolum are hardly unique, with Australian Bureau of Statistics figures showing the Sunshine Coast has more people living in caravans than anywhere else in Australia.

Coolum Beach caravan resident Bob Davidson and his mates Darcy Sutton, Mark Duggan, John Jackson and Ken Cameron have lived at Coolum Beach Holiday Park for a combined 80 years. Credit:Tony Moore

Of the 115,163 Australians who were living in a caravan park on census night - August 9, 2016 – 49,126, or 42 per cent, lived in Queensland, according to the ABS.

But the reason they live there may not simply be the Queensland sun.