Carpentaria QLD 4823
Carpentaria is in Carpentaria LGA, QLD, postcode 4823, with population 25.
Usable evidence
Carpentaria is usable, but it still needs cross-checking.
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
Carpentaria is usable, but it still needs cross-checking.
Direct signals include Property prices, Crime, Population growth, and Building approvals. Treat Market rent, Schools, and Hospitals as the main gap before this becomes a stronger decision page.
Use compare before shortlisting so the missing evidence is balanced against nearby suburbs.
Property prices, Crime, Population growth, Building approvals
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Market rent, Schools, Hospitals, Transport
Carpentaria currently reads as a thin-context candidate.
Entry price sits in the lower-cost range for a first-pass screen. 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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Entry price sits in the lower-cost range for a first-pass screen.
The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Market rent, Schools, Transport
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Carpentaria 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.
Small-population localities can still be worth checking, but rankings, comparisons, and broad suburb assumptions become noisier faster.
The main gaps on this page are school matches, hospital coverage, and transport stops. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
Start here for context, then open compare, the state hub, or larger nearby suburbs before treating this as a complete market decision.
This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
This page is useful for direction-setting, not closure. Use it to frame the locality, then confirm the story with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Carpentaria feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
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Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
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Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
- Buyers want a quick sense of price, schools, and neighbourhood scale before getting lost in data.
- Investors want to know whether rent, yield, and affordability broadly support the suburb story.
- Researchers want one place that ties property, demographics, transport, and services together.
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Carpentaria QLD
Carpentaria is a quiet locality in Queensland within the Carpentaria local government area (postcode 4823). With a population of 25, the suburb has a young demographic with a median age of 22. Households earn a median income of $110K per year, with an average household size of 4.3 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.2% year-on-year at the LGA level. 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, technicians & trades, managers. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median house price in Carpentaria is $163,000, having dropped significantly 33.6% over the past year.
The crime rate in the Carpentaria LGA is higher than average at 24,795 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Property prices sit below the state median ($163K/$1.1M), suggesting a potential value opportunity. The price-to-income ratio of 1.5x is considered affordable. House prices have moved -33.6% year-on-year. Population growth of +1.2% year-on-year indicates stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Carpentaria is a quiet locality in Queensland within the Carpentaria local government area (postcode 4823). With a population of 25, the suburb has a young demographic with a median age of 22. Households earn a median income of $110K per year, with an average household size of 4.3 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.2% year-on-year at the LGA level. 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, technicians & trades, managers. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median house price in Carpentaria is $163,000, having dropped significantly 33.6% over the past year.
The crime rate in the Carpentaria LGA is higher than average at 24,795 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Property prices sit below the state median ($163K/$1.1M), suggesting a potential value opportunity. The price-to-income ratio of 1.5x is considered affordable. House prices have moved -33.6% year-on-year. Population growth of +1.2% year-on-year indicates stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Carpentaria FAQ
Common questions-
What LGA is Carpentaria in?
Carpentaria is in the Carpentaria Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4823. Council-level context for Carpentaria LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
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What is the median house price in Carpentaria?
The current median house price in Carpentaria, QLD is $163K, based on the latest available sales data from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region.
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Is Carpentaria a good investment?
QuickProperty's investment signals for Carpentaria show: Below Median, Affordable, Falling. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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Where does QuickProperty get its data for Carpentaria?
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
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How often is the Carpentaria data updated?
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.