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QLD · 3,110 suburbs · capital: BNE

QLD

Property data for QLD. Rent signals, largest suburbs, lower-price entries, the macro coverage picture, and a desk for ranking, comparing, and modelling without leaving the state.

QLD sits inside the Australian section of QuickProperty, but its data does not behave uniformly. Price and rent coverage are stronger in metro markets, thinner in regional ones, and the state's median is only ever as honest as that coverage. This bulletin opens with the suburbs that anchor most decisions — the largest by population and the most affordable with real scale — before handing off to the full state browse view below.

Treat the medians as starting reads. Treat the suburb pages as where the work actually happens. Treat compare and the calculator as the stages where the shortlist gets stress-tested before listings.

State of the bulletin

Five readings from QLD.

Suburbs indexed
3,110
Browsable from this bulletin.
Population indexed
5.1M
Across QLD suburbs.
Median house
$866K
605 suburbs with price data.
D5 vs AU
Median rent /wk
$280
2,630 suburbs with rent data.
D5 vs AU
Median income
$725
Personal income, ABS Census base.
D5 vs AU
National positioning

Where QLD sits among the states.

Median houseQLD · 4th of 8
SA$1.10M
ACT$1.02M
NSW$975K
QLD$866K
WA$795K
VIC$725K
TAS$605K
NT$590K
Median rentQLD · 3rd of 8
ACT$447/wk
NSW$325/wk
QLD$280/wk
WA$271/wk
VIC$260/wk
SA$250/wk
TAS$250/wk
NT$202/wk
Gross yieldQLD · 4th of 8
NT3.0%
TAS2.6%
VIC2.5%
QLD2.3%
ACT2.3%
WA2.1%
NSW1.9%
SA1.6%

Median house price, median weekly rent, and median gross yield across QuickProperty's eight state datasets. Coverage differs by state, so treat these as screening positions, not valuations.

Investor profile

Investor profile · QLD

Owner-occupied 66%Rented 34%
Investor activityATO
Negatively geared46.74942942112179%
175,747 of 375,934 landlords
Avg rental loss$7,395/yr
Landlords (rental income)375,934
Reported capital gains279,449
The read

Negatively-geared growth belt

64% of homes here are owner-occupied and 33% rented, with 47% of landlords negatively geared.

What to check

47% of local landlords are negatively geared — investors here are betting on capital growth over rental income.

ABS Census 2021 tenure aggregated across the state's suburbs and ATO postcode rental statistics summed to state level. No state-level new-lending split is published; see the national page for lending flows.

State rent signals

QLD rent pressure, stress, and investor screens.

Areas
687
Median rent
$620/wk
Latest period
Q1 2026
Confidence
687 strong · 0 usable

BNE price trend

Median house · Brisbane
$1.15M
+21.4% YoY · +3.6% QoQ
Median unit · Brisbane
$835K
+21.8% YoY · +5.0% QoQ

BNE rent trend

Median weekly rent · Surfers Paradise
$750
+7.1% YoY · +0.0% QoQ
Median unit weekly · Surfers Paradise
$850
+6.9% YoY · +6.3% QoQ

Median rent to Mar 2026 · Houses to Dec 2025 · Units to Mar 2026 — these series are released on separate cycles, so their latest period can differ.

Source: Queensland RTA median rents · suburb grain · Latest: Mar 2026
Population projection

QLD projected to grow 15.5% by 2032.

ABS SA2-level projections rolled up to QLD, sum of 541 SA2 areas (male + female across all age brackets, base year 2022).

Base · 2022
5,320,496

Projected total population, QLD

+5y · 2027
5,796,382

+8.9% vs base

+10y · 2032
6,143,954

+15.5% vs base

Projected trajectory
2022–2032
Wholesale energy

QLD NEM spot price tracks at $76/MWh, down 20% on a year ago.

AEMO 5-minute price + demand data for QLD1, rolled to monthly averages over the last 13 months. Wholesale price is one of the larger inputs to retail electricity, ahead of network and retail margins.

Avg RRP · 2026-05
$76/MWh

-20.2% YoY

95th-pctile RRP
$145/MWh

Trades on the top 5% expensive intervals — the spike signal.

Peak demand
8,134 MW

Highest 5-min total demand in the month.

Solar adoption

QLD postcodes leading on rooftop solar.

Top postcodes ranked by Clean Energy Regulator small-scale installs per 1,000 residents. QLD cumulative: 1,194,266 installs across 443 postcodes, 7.98GW capacity, 75,025 added in the last 12 months.

See all QLD solar rankings → · Battery adoption →

Suburb directory

Every QLD suburb, A to Z.

3,110 QLD suburbs indexed. Jump to a letter, then open a suburb for prices, rent, schools, demographics, and investment signals.

A 107 suburbs
B 341 suburbs
C 307 suburbs
D 124 suburbs
E 96 suburbs
F 75 suburbs
G 179 suburbs
H 98 suburbs
I 42 suburbs
J 42 suburbs
K 134 suburbs
L 110 suburbs
M 374 suburbs
N 100 suburbs
O 44 suburbs
P 127 suburbs
Q 4 suburbs
R 117 suburbs
S 198 suburbs
T 170 suburbs
U 32 suburbs
V 25 suburbs
W 222 suburbs
Y 40 suburbs
Z 2 suburbs
FAQ

Four questions about QLD.

  1. How many QLD suburbs does QuickProperty cover?

    QuickProperty indexes 3,110 QLD suburb pages, with 605 suburbs carrying house price coverage and 2,630 suburbs carrying rent coverage in the current processed dataset.

  2. What is the median house price in QLD?

    Across QLD suburbs with available house price data, the median house price shown on this hub is $866K. Treat it as a suburb-screening benchmark, not a property valuation.

  3. What is the median weekly rent in QLD?

    Across QLD suburbs with available rent data, the median weekly rent shown on this hub is $280/wk. Individual suburb pages may differ materially from the state-level benchmark.

  4. What should I do after browsing the QLD hub?

    Start with the QLD rent signal cards when rent pressure matters, open a large suburb for context, use rankings if the state still feels too broad, or move two to three candidates into compare once you have a realistic shortlist.