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Applethorpe is in Southern Downs LGA, QLD, postcode 4378, with population 571.
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The page is still useful for local context, but the evidence stack is too thin for a clean one-page call. Use nearby stronger suburbs or compare mode before treating it as a serious shortlist decision.
The local employment base leans toward agriculture and healthcare. Local earnings momentum is not available from the linked ATO series. QLD employment is up +0.9% year-on-year (+27K jobs) and +15.4% over five years in the official NERO dataset. Read this as a broader state jobs backdrop combined with local employment mix, not a suburb-only new-jobs count.
QLD has 32 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 12 underway, and 50 in planning as at 2024-10-02. This suburb also matches 1 local transport stop or station, which adds nearby access context but does not prove direct project exposure. Read this as a state delivery backdrop, not a suburb-specific project list.
Applethorpe is a small community in Queensland within the Southern Downs local government area (postcode 4378). With a population of 571, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 44. Households earn a median income of $73K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 people. QLD employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. QLD also had 32 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 12 underway, and 50 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are labourers, managers, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Italian.
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
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The profile is based on limited but still useful local context. Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting.
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Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
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This page stays indexable because Applethorpe is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
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The main gaps on this page are hospital coverage, population trend data, and building approvals. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
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Applethorpe is a small community in Queensland within the Southern Downs local government area (postcode 4378). With a population of 571, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 44. Households earn a median income of $73K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 people. QLD employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. QLD also had 32 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 12 underway, and 50 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are labourers, managers, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Italian.
The median weekly rent is $265 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,300.
Applethorpe is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 952, which is around the national average of 1,000. Public transport access includes 1 bus stop. The crime rate in the Southern Downs LGA is moderate at 4,133 incidents per 100,000 population.
Applethorpe is a small community in Queensland within the Southern Downs local government area (postcode 4378). With a population of 571, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 44. Households earn a median income of $73K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 people. QLD employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. QLD also had 32 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 12 underway, and 50 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are labourers, managers, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Italian.
The median weekly rent is $265 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,300.
Applethorpe is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 952, which is around the national average of 1,000. Public transport access includes 1 bus stop. The crime rate in the Southern Downs LGA is moderate at 4,133 incidents per 100,000 population.