PROPERTY X-RAY
Darra · 4076 · Brisbane

Darra, 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, 70 in the last 12 months. More pins, more change.
Supply & demand · right now

The market reads tight, in the buyer's favour.

Buyer signal: favourable
For sale now
27
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
0.9%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
22days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 7 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
3
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
Darra in four numbers

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

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

+35%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Mar 2026
Median pace
2026 (2 sales)
PXR sales
As at Mar 2026
17
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
3.4%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Darra as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 70 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 15 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 1 Shops, services & community 1 Industry 13 Site works & minor 30
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 17 lots being subdivided · 2 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 with an industrial edge. Light on lifestyle amenity.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
17 Lot subdivision
9 Warehouse / logistics
5 Heavy industry
4 Earthworks / site prep
2 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
2 New houses
40 of 70 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 10 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • New lots 3 lots 128 Ashridge Road, Darra
  • Apartments / use 5 units Rooming accommodation mixedA modest single-storey rooming house on a busy arterial frontage — low bulk impact, but the use change and tight 2-for-5 parking are the real neighbour irritants, and as a code-assessable application the street had no formal say.
  • Apartments / use Industrial estate (develop-and-lease warehouse / industrial precinct) accretiveA long-derelict, dust-prone former brickworks is finally being turned into an active, tenanted industrial estate inside an existing industrial precinct — a clear renewal for surrounding industrial holdings, with a manageable interface to the residential pockets to the north and west.
  • New lots 6 lots 99 Harcourt Road, Darra QLD 4076
  • New lots 3 lots 90-92 Harrington Street, Darra
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Warehouse neutralA like-for-like industrial intensification on a Darra industrial cul-de-sac — directionally neutral for surrounding property, with a mild lift from tidying up an under-utilised, overgrown lot.
  • New lots 10 lots 99 Harcourt Road, Darra QLD 4076
  • Apartments / use 2 units Dual occupancy (existing house retained as one dwelling + one new two-storey residence) mixedA compliant, code-assessable dual occupancy that gently densifies a detached-house street — modest renewal upside offset by added bulk and traffic on Rowe Terrace.
  • New lots 3 lots 90-92 Harrington Street, Darra
  • Apartments / use 1 unit Warehouse neutralA modest 530 m² warehouse in an established Darra industrial estate — like-for-like use among existing industry, but a 2016 approval recycled through a fourth currency extension signals a land-banked, not-yet-built site rather than imminent renewal.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Darra 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 Darra safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
276
Traffic and Related Offences
64
Other Property Damage
59
Drug Offences
54
Unlawful Entry
42
Assault
36
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
23
Good Order Offences
18
Weapons Act Offences
14
Fraud
10
Other Offences Against the Person
10
Handling Stolen Goods
7
Trespassing and Vagrancy
7
Robbery
6
Miscellaneous Offences
3
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 Darra? 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
57%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
22%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Median income
$732/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
622
a typical parcel here, across 3,133 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
24%
Owned with a loan
33%
Rented
40%
Other / not stated
3%
Owner-occupier share is 57% of dwellings in Darra. 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
22%
Technicians and Trades Workers
16%
Labourers
12%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
12%
Community and Personal Service Workers
12%
Managers
10%
Professionals are the largest group at 22% of workers in Darra. 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 Darra.
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 Darra? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Darra

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Primary Schoolcatholic · 508 students
Darra State Schoolgovernment · 221 students

Value & yield

House sales in Darra, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (46 sales)As at Mar 2026
$682K
2024 median house onlyAs at Mar 2026
Not enough house sales in 2024 to publish a median. 3 sold.
2025 median house only (25 sales)As at Mar 2026
$920K
2026 median house onlyAs at Mar 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 2 sold.
3BR house rent (asking, 17 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$610/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
3.4%
Is Darra a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Darra.

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

Is Darra a good suburb?

There is plenty of change underway in Darra, 70 applications on the register over the past year. Median house sits at $920K, well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. It is about 13 km south-west 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. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you, because the suburb average is never the whole picture. Check the exact address.

What is the median house price in Darra?

The median house in Darra is about $920K (2026), well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. Over two years that is a rise of about 35%.

Does Darra flood?

Flood risk in Darra 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 Darra a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 3.4% in Darra, right around the Brisbane house average of about 2.7%. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Darra a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 629 recorded offences in Darra, 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 Darra?

In the last twelve months the council logged 70 applications around Darra, 40 of them approved. That includes 17 lot subdivisions and 2 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 Darra 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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