This page now starts with the practical questions ordinary users ask first: is the suburb expensive, what does rent look like, how big is it, what is nearby, and what should you do next.
Rathdowney is in Scenic Rim LGA, QLD, postcode 4287, with population 320.
Save suburbs here while you browse. Once the shortlist has two or more names, hand it straight into compare.
No saved AU suburbs yet.
No saved suburbs yet. Start with one ranking or suburb page, then compare once you have two candidates.
Open rankings to save the first candidates.
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 education. 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. There is no matched local transport-stop count here, so read the infrastructure backdrop as broader state delivery context only. Read this as a state delivery backdrop, not a suburb-specific project list.
Rathdowney is a quiet locality in Queensland within the Scenic Rim local government area (postcode 4287). With a population of 320, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 52. Households earn a median income of $58K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 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 managers, labourers, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
This suburb mixes release datasets, Census data, and matched local services. Use the data status block before treating every metric as equally fresh.
QuickProperty mixes release files, Census baselines, and matched local services on this page. Read the status panel before treating every metric as equally fresh.
Release-based suburb price series, not a live market feed
This gives you directional coverage, but it is weaker than a current rent release.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
The page still has useful coverage, but Market rent should be treated as fallback or lower-precision evidence. Missing signals include Property prices, Hospitals, and Transport.
Verify fallback signals manually and compare against stronger nearby suburbs before treating this as a shortlist candidate.
Crime, Schools
Market rent
Property prices, Hospitals, Transport, Population growth
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.
Use stronger nearby reads or rankings before treating this suburb as a shortlist candidate.
No strong positive decision reason is visible yet.
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.
Property prices, Transport
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Rathdowney 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.
Treat this as a directional locality brief first, then verify the suburb story against stronger nearby markets or the state hub.
The main gaps on this page are hospital coverage, transport stops, population trend data, and building approvals. 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 Rathdowney feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · rent -$25/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop same · rent +$1/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
The detailed view stays here for deeper inspection. If you want the complete charts, profile tables, data-status panel, and related suburb browsing, this is still the advanced mode.
Rathdowney is a quiet locality in Queensland within the Scenic Rim local government area (postcode 4287). With a population of 320, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 52. Households earn a median income of $58K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 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 managers, labourers, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $230 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,300.
Rathdowney is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 950, which is around the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Scenic Rim LGA is below average at 3,333 incidents per 100,000 population.
Rathdowney is a quiet locality in Queensland within the Scenic Rim local government area (postcode 4287). With a population of 320, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 52. Households earn a median income of $58K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 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 managers, labourers, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $230 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,300.
Rathdowney is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 950, which is around the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Scenic Rim LGA is below average at 3,333 incidents per 100,000 population.