PROPERTY X-RAY
Bulimba · 4171 · Brisbane

Bulimba, X‑rayed.

What the suburb is, and what it is becoming. The prices, what is being approved, the crime mix, the schools. By the numbers, then check any address on the street.

Each pin is a real development application near these streets, 122 in the last 12 months. More pins, more change.
Supply & demand · right now

The market reads soft, worth caution.

Buyer signal: caution
For sale now
69
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
2.6%
Stock on market
Within the balanced band of choice for buyers.
to go under offer
24days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 12 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
7
Asking-price cuts
Vendors discounting to shift stock. A classic softening signal.
Source: PXR listings & council parcel records · as at Oct 2026
The counts (listings, stock, cuts) include every property type: houses, townhouses, units, land. Days on market is houses only. Active = listed and not yet delisted. Stock on market = active listings divided by all land parcels in the suburb (parcels are lots, not dwellings, so read it as a proxy).
Buyer-favourable Caution: softening / oversupply
Bulimba in four numbers

What is the median house price in Bulimba? By our own numbers.

Three years of house sales, the development pipeline, and the rent it returns.

+10%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Sep 2026
$2.5M
Median pace
2026 (34 sales)
PXR sales
As at Sep 2026
20
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Oct 2026
2.0%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Oct 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

What is being built in Bulimba? You can inspect the house, not the street's future.

Every buyer judges Bulimba as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 122 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 13 Shops, services & community 2 Site works & minor 45
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 20 lots being subdivided · 3 townhouse / multi‑dwelling · hover a dot for the type.

This is the suburb, not your lot. The map shows that change is approved, and roughly where. Which one sits next to the house you are buying, and what it actually means, is in the per‑address report.

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The use fingerprint

What kind of change is being approved (last 12 months).
Density Industrial Amenity
A densifying suburb. Light on lifestyle amenity.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
35 New houses
20 Lot subdivision
8 Earthworks / site prep
4 Retail / shopfront
3 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
3 Park / recreation
68 of 122 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 13 Oct 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Single-storey retail pavilion (cafe plus display suite and sales office) accretiveA small, well made cafe pavilion on the river edge of Bulimba Barracks is a mild plus for the streets around it, but it is a delivery detail inside a much bigger master plan, not the thing that moves the area.
  • New lots 2 lots 55 Riddell Street, Bulimba
  • New lots 1 lot 10 Wordsworth Street, Bulimba
  • Apartments / use 15 units Apartments accretiveA boutique 15-unit riverfront building of large owner-occupier apartments that hands Bulimba a new public riverfront park and a widened corner - the kind of low-density luxury infill that lifts the street around it.
  • New lots 3 lots 8 Redcar Street & 19 Walter Street, Bulimba
  • Apartments / use 4 units Mixed use (apartments/multiple dwelling over ground-floor retail) accretiveA small, high-spec mixed-use infill on a Bulimba district-centre corner: quality owner-occupier product over ground-floor retail that should lift, not dilute, the surrounding streetscape.
  • Apartments / use 107 m² Supermarket neutralA tidy operational upgrade to a long-established Bulimba supermarket — convenient for locals, essentially invisible to surrounding property values.
  • New lots 2 lots 47 Johnston Street, Bulimba
  • Apartments / use 8 units Apartments / multiple dwelling units accretiveEight large three-bedroom units, well parked and built to the area's own low-medium-density character rules, is exactly the renewal Bulimba's planning scheme anticipates and reads as a quiet positive for the street.
  • Apartments / use 4 units Townhouses accretiveFour large three-bedroom homes with lifts on 810 sqm opposite Bulimba Memorial Park is low-yield, owner-occupier product that lifts the streetscape rather than crowding it, and the parking is genuinely solved.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Bulimba flood? It's a street-by-street question.

A suburb-wide flood figure hides the only answer that matters: whether the specific lot you are looking at sits inside a mapped overlay.

Where we're straight with you
We hold the parcel-level flood overlay here.

Flood overlays for Brisbane are in our map. The per-lot answer (in or out of the overlay) is on the address report, not a suburb average.

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Crime · the full mix

Is Bulimba safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

369 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
112
Unlawful Entry
77
Other Property Damage
31
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
27
Assault
19
Drug Offences
19
Trespassing and Vagrancy
17
Good Order Offences
16
Traffic and Related Offences
13
Fraud
10
Other Offences Against the Person
9
Handling Stolen Goods
8
Weapons Act Offences
3
Robbery
3
Miscellaneous Offences
2
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
2
Arson
1
For context, not a verdict

These are recorded offences for the area, grouped by type. We don't grade the suburb. You read the numbers and decide what matters for your street.

QPS crime data current to 21 Sep 2026.

Who lives here · the demand side

Who lives in Bulimba? The people behind the price.

Who owns, who rents, what they earn, and how much land sits under a typical home. The demand signals a suburb average can answer honestly, drawn from the census we hold.

Owner-occupied
62%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
36%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$1,402/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
412m²
a typical parcel here, across 2,639 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
28%
Owned with a loan
34%
Rented
37%
Other / not stated
1%
Owner-occupier share is 62% of dwellings in Bulimba. A more tenanted mix, the kind of read buyer's agents weigh for stability.

What people do

Top occupation groups of working residents. A professional weight tends to track stable demand.
Professionals
36%
Managers
24%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
13%
Sales Workers
7%
Technicians and Trades Workers
7%
Community and Personal Service Workers
7%
Professionals are the largest group at 36% of workers in Bulimba. Professional demographic, a resident base read as resilient.
Source: ABS Census 2021 (tenure, occupation, income) · Lot size from the QLD cadastre ·As at Oct 2026 · Census figures borrowed from the SA2 covering Bulimba.
What this tells you, and what it doesn't

A high owner-occupier share, paired with a professional resident base, is a demand signal: people buy here to live, not to flip. It says nothing about the specific street or block. The per-address report puts these residents next to the exact lot, its zoning and what is being built nearby.

Schools & value

What are the schools like in Bulimba? And what it rents for.

Both pictures side by side, from the latest data we hold.

Schools in Bulimba

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Bulimba State Schoolgovernment · 612 students

Value & yield

House sales in Bulimba, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (90 sales)As at Sep 2026
$1.9M
2024 median house only (76 sales)As at Sep 2026
$2.0M
2025 median house only (54 sales)As at Sep 2026
$2.1M
2026 median house only (34 sales)As at Sep 2026
$2.5M
3BR house rent (asking, 16 live listings)As at Oct 2026
$812/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Oct 2026
2%
Is Bulimba a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Bulimba.

Straight answers, built from the numbers on this page. We show the data and let you decide. Information only, not advice.

Is Bulimba a good suburb?

Bulimba is one of the busier suburbs in Brisbane's north-east for development right now, with 122 applications on the council register in the past year. Median house sits at $2.08M, well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.48M. It is about 4 km north-east of the Brisbane CBD. Flood is a per-lot question here and we hold the parcel overlay, so check the exact address rather than a suburb average. That is the read from the data, not a verdict. The only number that truly counts is the one for the exact address, so check the lot before you fall for the suburb.

What is the median house price in Bulimba?

The median house in Bulimba is about $2.08M (2026), well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.48M. Over two years that is a rise of about 10%.

Does Bulimba flood?

Flood risk in Bulimba is a street-by-street question. We hold the parcel-level flood overlay for this council, so the honest answer is at the exact address, not a suburb average. Run an address to see whether a specific lot sits inside a mapped overlay.

Is Bulimba a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 2% in Bulimba, below the Brisbane house average of about 2.6%. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Bulimba a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 369 recorded offences in Bulimba, most commonly other theft. We show the full breakdown and do not grade the suburb; you read it and decide what matters for your street.

What is being built in Bulimba?

In the last twelve months the council logged 122 applications around Bulimba, 68 of them approved. That includes 20 lot subdivisions and 3 townhouse or multi-dwelling projects, a clue to how the streetscape is slowly changing. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.

Now make it about your street

Check any Bulimba address.

Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.

Houses across Queensland · informational, not advice