PROPERTY X-RAY
Chermside · 4032 · Brisbane

Chermside, 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, 60 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
85
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
2.7%
Stock on market
Within the balanced band of choice for buyers.
to go under offer
21days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 9 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
8
Asking-price cuts
Vendors discounting to shift stock. A classic softening signal.
Source: PXR listings & council parcel records · as at Aug 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
Chermside in four numbers

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

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

+28%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Jul 2026
$1.3M
Median pace
2026 (16 sales)
PXR sales
As at Jul 2026
13
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
3.7%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Chermside as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 60 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 13 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 12 Shops, services & community 3 Site works & minor 32
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 13 lots being subdivided · 12 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.
13 Lot subdivision
12 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
5 Earthworks / site prep
2 Retail / shopfront
1 Park / recreation
1 New houses
43 of 60 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 14 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • New lots 2 lots 6 Dumaurier Street, Chermside
  • New lots 6 lots 6 Farnell St & 11 Rainey St, Chermside QLD 4032
  • Apartments / use 13 units Apartments accretiveTextbook third-generation infill on Chermside's Western Avenue apartment strip: one tired post-war house becomes 13 new units on a street that has already made this transition, lifting surrounding land values while quietly worsening on-street parking.
  • New lots 10 lots Bunavue Residences
  • New lots 2 lots 29 Kilburn Street, Chermside
  • Apartments / use 18 units Apartments neutralA modest, repeatedly-extended 18-unit infill approval in a Chermside centre-fringe LMR pocket — consistent with the zone and the area's medium-density trajectory, but its nine-year unbuilt history reads more land-bank than imminent build.
  • Apartments / use 26 units Apartments neutralThe change itself is immaterial to neighbours - two extra one-bedroom units inside an already-approved 6-storey envelope - while the underlying corner apartment redevelopment is exactly the renewal this MDR pocket beside Westfield Chermside is zoned for.
  • New lots subdivision 709 WEBSTER RD CHERMSIDE QLD 4032
  • Apartments / use 64 units Apartments accretiveQuality high-density renewal in the Chermside major-centre frame that lifts surrounding land values, with a real but manageable amenity trade-off for the handful of low-rise neighbours immediately abutting the tower.
  • Apartments / use Multi dwelling neutralMarcus Reid: This is only a paperwork extension keeping an older Chermside approval alive to May 2028, so on its own it changes nothing for neighbours until I can see what the underlying A003896404 approval actually permits.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Chermside 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 Chermside safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

3,247 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
1,771
Drug Offences
365
Good Order Offences
188
Assault
162
Traffic and Related Offences
151
Unlawful Entry
133
Other Property Damage
128
Handling Stolen Goods
85
Weapons Act Offences
76
Fraud
57
Trespassing and Vagrancy
44
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
43
Other Offences Against the Person
17
Robbery
14
Miscellaneous Offences
9
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
4
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 3 Aug 2026.

Who lives here · the demand side

Who lives in Chermside? 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
32%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
25%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$844/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
610
a typical parcel here, across 3,173 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
15%
Owned with a loan
17%
Rented
63%
Other / not stated
6%
Owner-occupier share is 32% of dwellings in Chermside. 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
25%
Community and Personal Service Workers
15%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
14%
Technicians and Trades Workers
11%
Managers
10%
Sales Workers
10%
Professionals are the largest group at 25% of workers in Chermside. Professional demographic, a resident base read as resilient.
Source: ABS Census 2021 (tenure, occupation, income) · Lot size from the QLD cadastre ·As at Aug 2026 · Census figures borrowed from the SA2 covering Chermside.
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 Chermside? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Chermside

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
No school ICSEA data held for this suburb yet.

Value & yield

House sales in Chermside, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (68 sales)As at Jul 2026
$856K
2024 median house only (46 sales)As at Jul 2026
$1.1M
2025 median house only (42 sales)As at Jul 2026
$1.1M
2026 median house only (16 sales)As at Jul 2026
$1.3M
3BR house rent (asking, 16 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$788/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
3.7%
Is Chermside a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Chermside.

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

Is Chermside a good suburb?

Right now Chermside is a suburb being actively reshaped: 60 development applications landed in the last twelve months. Median house sits at $1.1M, below the Brisbane house median. It is about 9 km north 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. None of this is a rating. Every street tells its own story, so run the specific address before you commit.

What is the median house price in Chermside?

The median house in Chermside is about $1.1M (2026), below the Brisbane house median. Over two years that is a rise of about 28%.

Does Chermside flood?

Flood risk in Chermside 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 Chermside a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 3.7% in Chermside, comfortably above the Brisbane house average of about 2.7%. That is a genuinely useful yield for a house, so the rent does more of the heavy lifting here. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Chermside a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 3,247 recorded offences in Chermside, 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 Chermside?

In the last twelve months the council logged 60 applications around Chermside, 43 of them approved. That includes 13 lot subdivisions and 12 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 Chermside address.

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

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