Mount Surprise is in Etheridge LGA, QLD, postcode 4871, with population 138.
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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.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
68% of homes here are owner-occupied and 9% rented, with 4% of landlords negatively geared.
A balanced 68% owner-occupier / 9% renter mix.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 17% · QLD median 19%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 60% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $834/mo, while renters pay about $650/mo — owning runs $184/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 29% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $500/wk income).
Getting to work: 17% drive, 0% public transport, 44% walk or cycle, 37% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
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 Croydon - Etheridge SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Mount Surprise (postcode 4871) is a sparsely populated locality in Queensland within the Etheridge local government area. With a population of 138, the suburb has a settled, mature resident base with a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $46K per year, with an average household size of 2.1 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.8% 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 managers, labourers, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward accommodation & food and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $150 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $834.
Mount Surprise is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 862, which is well below the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Etheridge LGA is moderate at 4,941 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, Population growth of +0.8% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Mount Surprise leans on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
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QVAS residential dwelling sales aggregated to SA2 and mapped to suburb pages
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This page stays indexable because Mount Surprise 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 lighter areas here are hospital coverage and transport stops, so a single-page read should carry less weight than usual.
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Mount Surprise is in the Etheridge Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4871. Council-level context for Etheridge LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Mount Surprise is $150/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Mount Surprise show: Stable, 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.