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 Fortitude Valley as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 76 applications in the last 12 months, 1 refused.
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 Brisbane 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 →6,215 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.
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.
There is plenty of change underway in Fortitude Valley, 76 applications on the register over the past year. Median house sits at $638K, well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. It is about 2 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. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you, because the suburb average is never the whole picture. Check the exact address.
The median house in Fortitude Valley is about $638K (2026), well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side.
Flood risk in Fortitude Valley 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 6.5% in Fortitude Valley, 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.
Over the past year there were roughly 6,215 recorded offences in Fortitude Valley, most commonly drug offences. 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 76 applications around Fortitude Valley, 40 of them approved. That includes 1 lot subdivision 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.
Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.