How is YoY rent change calculated for Fastest Rising Rents?

For QLD and VIC, we compare the latest quarterly suburb median rent against the same quarter one year earlier. For WA, we compare the latest monthly suburb median rent against the same month one year earlier. For NSW, we compare the latest monthly postcode-derived median rent against the same month one year earlier.

Which suburbs are included?

NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, and TAS suburbs are included when population is over 500 and enough trend history exists. NSW rows use postcode-derived rent, so multiple suburbs can share the same rent signal.

QuickProperty currently has enough processed rent trend coverage for NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, and TAS. ACT and NT are kept out of rent-specific ranking scopes until source coverage is strong enough for a comparable screen.

Should rising rent change my investment decision?

Rising rents tighten yields when prices keep pace and can signal demand pressure, but they can also reflect supply shocks or sample noise. Verify with the suburb page before acting.

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Ranking · QLD · 50 suburbs

Fastest Rising Rents — QLD

Top 50 suburbs by year-on-year rent growth in QLD.

Leading suburb

ChurchillQLD

Leading value

+125.0%

Runner-up

YandinaQLD

Updated

18 May 2026

Ranking

Fastest Rising Rents

Top 50 suburbs by year-on-year rent growth — QLD

50 results

All NSW VIC QLD WA SA TAS

How to read this ranking

Use rising rents to spot rental-market pressure, then verify why it is moving.

BEST FOR

Surfacing suburbs where weekly rent is moving fastest year-on-year.

This list works best when you want to find where rental demand is intensifying in QLD.

READ IT AS

A rent-pressure signal, not a buy signal.

High YoY rent growth often reflects supply tightness, returning workers, or migration. NSW rows are postcode-derived, so treat shared postcode signals as directional.

NEXT STEP

Check yield, price, and population context.

Open the suburb pages to confirm the rise is durable rather than a thin-sample bounce, and to weigh affordability and yield context.

VERIFY evidence

Rent-source screen

Rent rankings use state rent feeds with different grains and cadences. Use them to find pressure, then open suburb detail before treating the signal as final.

SHORTLIST SCREEN

Top candidates are research leads.

Save a small working set, then use compare and evidence depth before treating any row as a decision.

Shortlist flow

Use #1 Churchill and #2 Yandina as the first compare pair.

Rankings are strongest when they hand you a shortlist quickly. Compare the top two first, then open suburb detail if the head-to-head result still feels narrow.

Compare top 2Open #1 detail Open #2 detail

# ▲	SUBURB	STATE	YoY%	WEEKLY	POP
1	Churchill	QLD	+125.0%	1,842	$450
2	Yandina	QLD	+105.3%	3,073	$780
3	Darling Heights	QLD	+90.5%	5,157	$400
4	Innisfail	QLD	+80.0%	1,091	$360
5	Meadowbrook	QLD	+70.4%	3,069	$460
6	Chambers Flat	QLD	+62.2%	2,718	$730
7	Mapleton	QLD	+61.8%	1,661	$550
8	Yaroomba	QLD	+42.9%	2,043	$1000
9	Collinsville	QLD	+40.0%	1,496	$420
10	Kalinga	QLD	+35.6%	2,144	$800
11	Wyreema	QLD	+35.0%	2,076	$540
12	Wandoan	QLD	+34.6%	666	$350
13	Fig Tree Pocket	QLD	+31.6%	4,345	$1000
14	Bundaberg East	QLD	+31.0%	2,839	$550
15	South Mission Beach	QLD	+31.0%	968	$550
16	Willowbank	QLD	+28.6%	1,351	$450
17	Slacks Creek	QLD	+25.0%	10,408	$550
18	Longreach	QLD	+23.3%	3,124	$370
19	Middlemount	QLD	+22.5%	1,899	$490
20	Gympie	QLD	+22.2%	11,355	$550
21	Rosewood	QLD	+22.2%	3,263	$550
22	Chelmer	QLD	+21.8%	3,325	$950
23	Taranganba	QLD	+21.4%	2,275	$680
24	Ayr	QLD	+21.2%	8,603	$400
25	Broadbeach Waters	QLD	+21.1%	8,164	$1150
26	St George	QLD	+20.7%	3,130	$350
27	Seven Hills	QLD	+20.6%	2,732	$820
28	Bethania	QLD	+20.0%	6,333	$600
29	Jindalee	QLD	+20.0%	5,320	$720
30	Moore Park Beach	QLD	+20.0%	2,890	$600
31	North Mackay	QLD	+20.0%	6,194	$600
32	Palm Cove	QLD	+20.0%	2,450	$600
33	Waterford West	QLD	+19.6%	6,942	$550
34	Tinana	QLD	+19.2%	5,872	$590
35	Durack	QLD	+18.8%	7,788	$570
36	Bayview Heights	QLD	+18.6%	4,175	$700
37	Pomona	QLD	+18.5%	2,931	$735
38	Hermit Park	QLD	+18.4%	3,512	$450
39	Bundamba	QLD	+18.3%	6,542	$550
40	Branyan	QLD	+18.2%	4,660	$650
41	Kuluin	QLD	+18.2%	2,700	$650
42	River Heads	QLD	+18.2%	2,044	$650
43	Charleville	QLD	+18.0%	2,992	$295
44	Slade Point	QLD	+18.0%	3,450	$590
45	Booval	QLD	+17.9%	2,723	$495
46	Ipswich	QLD	+17.4%	2,468	$270
47	Sandstone Point	QLD	+17.2%	4,094	$680
48	Sinnamon Park	QLD	+17.2%	6,590	$850
49	Smithfield	QLD	+17.1%	6,664	$685
50	Pittsworth	QLD	+17.1%	3,300	$480

FAQ

Australian fastest rising rents FAQ

How is YoY rent change calculated for Fastest Rising Rents?

For QLD and VIC, we compare the latest quarterly suburb median rent against the same quarter one year earlier. For WA, we compare the latest monthly suburb median rent against the same month one year earlier. For NSW, we compare the latest monthly postcode-derived median rent against the same month one year earlier.
Which suburbs are included?

NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, and TAS suburbs are included when population is over 500 and enough trend history exists. NSW rows use postcode-derived rent, so multiple suburbs can share the same rent signal.
Why not ACT or NT?

QuickProperty currently has enough processed rent trend coverage for NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, and TAS. ACT and NT are kept out of rent-specific ranking scopes until source coverage is strong enough for a comparable screen.
Should rising rent change my investment decision?

Rising rents tighten yields when prices keep pace and can signal demand pressure, but they can also reflect supply shocks or sample noise. Verify with the suburb page before acting.