Grantham is in Lockyer Valley LGA, QLD, postcode 4347, with population 796.
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Population movement supports a growth-led read.
Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
82% of homes here are owner-occupied and 18% rented, with 4% of landlords negatively geared.
82% owner-occupied — owner-occupiers hold longer and absorb rate shocks, supporting price stability.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 21% · QLD median 19%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 39% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,300/mo, while renters pay about $1,257/mo — owning runs $43/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 32% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $967/wk income).
Getting to work: 71% drive, 16% public transport, 3% walk or cycle, 6% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Top 81% most liveable of 4,565Australian suburbs.
Bar = this suburb's percentile · tick = typical (median) peer
Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within Australian suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
Estimated exposure to NSW RFS Bush Fire Prone Land (CC BY), point-sampled across the suburb. This shows how much of the suburb sits within the official hazard layer — it is not a Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) rating or a property-level assessment. Obtain a BAL assessment (AS 3959) for an individual property.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Lockyer Valley - West SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Grantham (postcode 4347) is a small community in Queensland within the Lockyer Valley local government area. The area has roughly 796 residents and a blend of families and working-age professionals, with a median age of 36. Households earn a median income of $73K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +2.4% year-on-year at the LGA level. QLD employment has moved +1.4% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. QLD also had 35 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 16 underway, and 30 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are labourers, technicians & trades, managers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, German.
The median weekly rent is $290 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,300.
Grantham is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 925, which is below the national average of 1,000. Public transport access includes 2 bus stops. The crime rate in the Lockyer Valley LGA is moderate at 5,344 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +2.4% year-on-year points to strong growth demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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QVAS residential dwelling sales aggregated to SA2 and mapped to suburb pages
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
Grantham is in the Lockyer Valley Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4347. Council-level context for Lockyer Valley LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Grantham is $290/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Grantham show: Strong Growth, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.