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.
Three years of house sales, the development pipeline, and the rent it returns.
Every buyer judges Coombabah as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 2 applications in the last 12 months.
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.
Check a specific address →A suburb-wide flood figure hides the only answer that matters: whether the specific lot you are looking at sits inside a mapped overlay.
Flood overlays for Gold Coast are in our map. The per-lot answer (in or out of the overlay) is on the address report, not a suburb average.
Check a specific address →228 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.
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 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.
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.
Both pictures side by side, from the latest data we hold.
Straight answers, built from the numbers on this page. We show the data and let you decide. Information only, not advice.
Coombabah stands out on rental return, a gross yield near 4.7% for a house, a quiet, low-change suburb. Median house sits at $975K, well below the the Gold Coast house median, on the affordable side. It is about 7 km north-west of the Gold Coast 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.
The median house in Coombabah is about $975K (2026), well below the the Gold Coast house median, on the affordable side. Over two years that is a rise of about 29%.
Flood risk in Coombabah 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.
For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 4.7% in Coombabah, comfortably above the the Gold Coast house average of about 3.6%. 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.
Over the past year there were roughly 228 recorded offences in Coombabah, 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.
In the last twelve months the council logged 2 applications around Coombabah. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.
Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.