PROPERTY X-RAY
Hamilton · 4007 · Brisbane

Hamilton, 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, 98 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
109
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
5.4%
Stock on market
Above the healthy band. Buyers have more choice and leverage.
to go under offer
33days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 5 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
11
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
Hamilton in four numbers

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

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

+-16%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Aug 2026
$2.1M
Median pace
2026 (11 sales)
PXR sales
As at Aug 2026
2
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
2.0%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Hamilton as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 98 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 1 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 4 Shops, services & community 1 Industry 2 Site works & minor 52
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 2 lots being subdivided · 6 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.
28 New houses
6 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
5 Earthworks / site prep
2 Lot subdivision
2 Heavy industry
2 Retail / shopfront
63 of 98 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.
  • Apartments / use Heavy industry neutralThis is a paperwork-only currency-period extension; the actual development scope lives in parent DA A004476312, and the fact it's being extended rather than built signals a deferred, not imminent, project.
  • Apartments / use 10 units Townhouses / multiple dwelling (existing); change is a unit patio neutralA 15.75 m2 rear patio on one unit of an existing Hamilton townhouse complex — this is house-keeping, not development, and moves the dial on nothing for the neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 85 units Apartments accretiveA genuine renewal play: a vacant riverfront corner on Kingsford Smith Drive becomes a high-quality 85-unit tower in an established high-density precinct, which on balance lifts the surrounding area rather than harms it.
  • Apartments / use 8 units Townhouses neutralA paperwork tidy-up on an already-built riverside townhouse row, not a new development, so it does not move the dial on surrounding values either way.
  • Apartments / use 72 units Apartments accretiveA high-quality 15-storey residential tower replacing a vacant landmark riverfront corner is a net positive for an already-intensifying Hamilton high-density precinct, with a multi-year construction disruption the main near-term cost to immediate neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 12 units Mixed use — apartments over ground-floor retail accretiveMarcus Reid: a quality, design-led mixed-use replacement on Hamilton's Racecourse Road high street that lifts the streetscape and adds owner-occupier housing without overreaching the established 4-5 storey emerging character.
  • Apartments / use 37 units Mixed use (ground-floor retail/centre activities with apartments above) accretiveA genuine high-street renewal by a premium developer that should lift Racecourse Road's amenity overall, with the only real downside falling on the immediate low-rise neighbours to the east who cop the bulk and overshadowing.
  • Apartments / use 1 unit Townhouse mixedA paperwork-only Airbnb permission on one of five townhouses; near-invisible to the street, but a genuine amenity question for the four other owners sharing the Jackson Mews body corporate.
  • Apartments / use 6 units Townhouses neutralMarcus Reid: a small 6-unit townhouse infill on an established Hamilton street, approved long ago and merely amended in 2024 — too modest and too in-keeping to move surrounding values either way.
  • Apartments / use 16 units Townhouses accretiveQuality medium-density townhouse infill in blue-chip Ascot/Hamilton, retaining two character homes; this particular change is housekeeping during construction and won't move surrounding values either way.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Hamilton 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 Hamilton safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
246
Drug Offences
105
Unlawful Entry
101
Traffic and Related Offences
52
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
50
Good Order Offences
44
Other Property Damage
36
Assault
34
Fraud
22
Handling Stolen Goods
15
Trespassing and Vagrancy
11
Other Offences Against the Person
11
Weapons Act Offences
11
Robbery
5
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
2
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 Hamilton? 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
48%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
33%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$1,198/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
500
a typical parcel here, across 2,034 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
23%
Rented
50%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 48% of dwellings in Hamilton. 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
33%
Managers
20%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
15%
Community and Personal Service Workers
9%
Sales Workers
8%
Technicians and Trades Workers
7%
Professionals are the largest group at 33% of workers in Hamilton. 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 Hamilton.
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 Hamilton? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Hamilton

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Hamilton State Schoolgovernment · 248 students

Value & yield

House sales in Hamilton, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (48 sales)As at Aug 2026
$2.4M
2024 median house only (41 sales)As at Aug 2026
$2.0M
2025 median house only (54 sales)As at Aug 2026
$2.0M
2026 median house only (11 sales)As at Aug 2026
$2.1M
3BR house rent (asking, 5 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$800/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
2%
Is Hamilton a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Hamilton.

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

Is Hamilton a good suburb?

Hamilton reads as a suburb being actively reshaped: house values down about 16% in two years. Median house sits at $2.03M, well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.42M. It is about 5 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.

What is the median house price in Hamilton?

The median house in Hamilton is about $2.03M (2026), well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.42M. Over two years that is a fall of about 16%.

Does Hamilton flood?

Flood risk in Hamilton 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 Hamilton a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 2% in Hamilton, below 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 Hamilton a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 745 recorded offences in Hamilton, 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 Hamilton?

In the last twelve months the council logged 98 applications around Hamilton, 63 of them approved. That includes 2 lot subdivisions and 6 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 Hamilton 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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