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Dimbulah is a town and locality in Far North Queensland, Australia, 114 kilometres (71 mi) from Cairns by road, on the Atherton Tableland. It is within the local government area of Shire of Mareeba (between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Tablelands Region). At the 2011 census, Dimbulah had a population of 1,414. Dimbulah is on the railway line to Chillagoe. In 1928, tobacco was introduced to the town, which became the area's major industry. There were over 800 growers in Dimbulah at the height of the industry's success, producing over 60 percent of the national yield. Tobacco farming waned when the government ordered it so, but farming alternative crops like mangoes, sugarcane, lemons, coffee, avocados and many others remains part of the town's industry.