Wheatlands is in South Burnett LGA, QLD, postcode 4606, with population 82.
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.
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.
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,398/mo, while renters pay about $867/mo — owning runs $531/mo higher on these medians.
Wheatlands (postcode 4606) is a sparsely populated locality in Queensland within the South Burnett local government area. The area has roughly 82 residents and a mature demographic, with a median age of 49. Households earn a median income of $62K per year, with an average household size of 2.6 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 sales, managers, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and construction. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $200 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,398.
Wheatlands is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 926, which is below the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the South Burnett LGA is moderate at 6,085 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of +1.2% year-on-year points to stable 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.
This page stays indexable because Wheatlands 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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Coverage is thinner on hospital coverage and transport stops; lean less on this one page and confirm those gaps elsewhere.
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Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
Wheatlands is in the South Burnett Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4606. Council-level context for South Burnett LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Wheatlands is $200/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Wheatlands 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.