PROPERTY X-RAY
Ellen Grove · 4078 · Brisbane

Ellen Grove, 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, 24 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
29
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
0.3%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
Median days on market · houses
Not enough recorded house sales yet to time the market here.
last 90 days
19
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
Ellen Grove in four numbers

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

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

+43%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Apr 2026
Median pace
2026 (2 sales)
PXR sales
As at Apr 2026
4
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
3.9%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Ellen Grove as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 24 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 4 Shops, services & community 1 Site works & minor 19
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 4 lots being subdivided · 0 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.
4 Lot subdivision
3 New houses
3 Earthworks / site prep
1 Park / recreation
16 of 24 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 7 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • New lots 2 lots 76 Julie Road, Ellen Grove
  • New lots 22 lots 138 Bagnall Street, Ellen Grove QLD 4078
  • New lots 34 lots 145 Bagnall Street & 123 Roxwell Street, Ellen Grove QLD 4078
  • New lots 12 lots 145 Roxwell Street, Ellen Grove
  • New lots subdivision 10 JULIE RD ELLEN GROVE QLD 4078
  • New lots 8 lots 549 Waterford Road, Ellen Grove — Stage 2
  • Apartments / use Childcare centre mixedA funded, near-term 120-place childcare build replacing one tired dwelling in an emerging-community pocket - a genuine family amenity for the area, but the immediate Waterford Road neighbours wear the drop-off traffic, headlights and children's play noise.
  • New lots 2 lots 499 Waterford Road, Ellen Grove QLD 4078
  • Apartments / use 17 units Place of worship + rooming accommodation (Vietnamese Caodaist temple and monastic accommodation) accretiveA low-rise, heavily-vegetated Vietnamese Caodaist temple and small monastic accommodation, drawing zero objections and sitting among two established monasteries, reads as a quiet, amenity-positive neighbour for surrounding Ellen Grove homes - the only real friction is event-day parking and traffic.
  • New lots 10 lots 549 Waterford Road, Ellen Grove
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Ellen Grove 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 Ellen Grove safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Drug Offences
43
Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
36
Unlawful Entry
33
Assault
29
Other Property Damage
28
Traffic and Related Offences
24
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
13
Fraud
12
Weapons Act Offences
7
Trespassing and Vagrancy
6
Good Order Offences
6
Other Offences Against the Person
5
Handling Stolen Goods
5
Miscellaneous Offences
2
Arson
1
Robbery
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 3 Aug 2026.

Who lives here · the demand side

Who lives in Ellen Grove? 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
66%
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
$805/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
451
a typical parcel here, across 8,329 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
23%
Owned with a loan
43%
Rented
31%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 66% of dwellings in Ellen Grove. Owner-held pocket, 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%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
15%
Community and Personal Service Workers
13%
Managers
11%
Technicians and Trades Workers
11%
Labourers
9%
Professionals are the largest group at 22% of workers in Ellen Grove. 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 Ellen Grove.
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 Ellen Grove? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Ellen Grove

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

Value & yield

House sales in Ellen Grove, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (28 sales)As at Apr 2026
$565K
2024 median house onlyAs at Apr 2026
Not enough house sales in 2024 to publish a median. 3 sold.
2025 median house only (18 sales)As at Apr 2026
$810K
2026 median house onlyAs at Apr 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 2 sold.
3BR house rent (RTA bonds (postcode))As at Aug 2026
$600/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
3.9%
Is Ellen Grove a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Ellen Grove.

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

Is Ellen Grove a good suburb?

Over two years Ellen Grove's house median has moved up roughly 43%, marking it as an affordability-led mover. The typical house runs $810K, well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. That two-year jump is well ahead of the wider Brisbane market, so it is worth checking whether it has run a little hot. Distance-wise it sits roughly 18 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. 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 Ellen Grove?

A typical house in Ellen Grove sits around $810K (2026), well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. That is up roughly 43% over two years.

Does Ellen Grove flood?

Flood risk in Ellen Grove 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 Ellen Grove a good place to invest?

Ellen Grove's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 3.9%, 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 Ellen Grove a safe suburb?

Across Ellen Grove, police recorded about 251 offences over the last year, most commonly drug offences. The complete mix is on the page. We do not slap a score on it, that judgment is yours.

What is being built in Ellen Grove?

Ellen Grove had 24 development applications on the council register in the past year, 16 of them approved. That includes 4 lot subdivisions, 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 Ellen Grove address.

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