diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-q/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-q/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index fac1bfa327a8..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-q/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  arrow,
-  blessed,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  croniter,
-  django,
-  django-picklefield,
-  django-redis,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  future,
-  pkgs,
-  poetry-core,
-  pytest-django,
-  pytest-mock,
-  pytestCheckHook,
-  pythonOlder,
-  redis,
-  setuptools,
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "django-q";
-  version = "1.3.9";
-  pyproject = true;
-
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "Koed00";
-    repo = "django-q";
-    rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-gFSrAl3QGoJEJfvTTvLQgViPPjeJ6BfvgEwgLLo+uAA=";
-  };
-
-  patches = [ ./pep-621.patch ];
-
-  build-system = [
-    poetry-core
-  ];
-
-  pythonRelaxDeps = [
-    "redis"
-  ];
-
-  dependencies = [
-    django-picklefield
-    arrow
-    blessed
-    django
-    future
-    setuptools # for pkg_resources
-  ];
-
-  nativeCheckInputs = [
-    croniter
-    django-redis
-    pytest-django
-    pytest-mock
-    pytestCheckHook
-  ] ++ django-redis.optional-dependencies.hiredis;
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "django_q" ];
-
-  preCheck = ''
-    ${pkgs.redis}/bin/redis-server &
-    REDIS_PID=$!
-  '';
-
-  postCheck = ''
-    kill $REDIS_PID
-  '';
-
-  # don't bother with two more servers to test
-  disabledTests = [
-    "test_disque"
-    "test_mongo"
-  ];
-
-  doCheck = !stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin;
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Multiprocessing distributed task queue for Django";
-    homepage = "https://django-q.readthedocs.org";
-    changelog = "https://github.com/Koed00/django-q/releases/tag/v${version}";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ gador ];
-    # django-q is unmaintained at the moment
-    # https://github.com/Koed00/django-q/issues/733
-    broken = lib.versionAtLeast redis.version "5";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-q/pep-621.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-q/pep-621.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f89201e3511..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/django-q/pep-621.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
-index 9a83e90..07068ac 100644
---- a/pyproject.toml
-+++ b/pyproject.toml
-@@ -67,13 +67,15 @@ pytest-cov = "^2.12.0"
- black = { version = "^21.5b1", allow-prereleases = true }
- isort = {extras = ["requirements_deprecated_finder"], version = "^5.8.0"}
- 
--[tool.poetry.extras]
-+[build-system]
- requires = ["poetry_core>=1.0.0"]
--build-backend = ["poetry.core.masonry.api"]
-+build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
-+
-+[tool.poetry.extras]
- testing = ["django-redis", "croniter", "hiredis", "psutil", "iron-mq", "boto3", "pymongo"]
- rollbar = ["django-q-rollbar"]
- sentry = ["django-q-sentry"]
- 
- [tool.isort]
- profile = "black"
--multi_line_output = 3
-\ No newline at end of file
-+multi_line_output = 3
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index 5d188743792e..1714d05a727d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   django-mysql = throw "django-mysql has been removed, since it was an unused leaf package"; # added 2024-07-02
   django_nose = django-nose; # added 2023-07-25
   django-nose = throw "django-nose has been removed since it has not been maintained and there are no dependent packages"; # added 2024-05-21
+  django-q = throw "django-q has been removed because it is unmaintained and was unused"; # added 2024-12-13
   django_reversion = django-reversion; # added 2022-06-18
   django_polymorphic = django-polymorphic; # added 2022-05-24
   django_redis = django-redis; # added 2021-10-11
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 9fb785ef1b1d..e31f7dc3b871 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3570,8 +3570,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   django-pwa = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-pwa { };
 
-  django-q = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-q { };
-
   django-q2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-q2 { };
 
   django-scheduler = callPackage ../development/python-modules/django-scheduler { };