PROPERTY X-RAY
Highland Park · 4211 · Gold Coast

Highland Park, 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, 4 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
25
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
0.8%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
24days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 8 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
6
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
Highland Park in four numbers

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

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

+29%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Aug 2026
$1.2M
Median pace
2026 (17 sales)
PXR sales
As at Aug 2026
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Jun 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 Highland Park? You can inspect the house, not the street's future.

Every buyer judges Highland Park as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 4 applications in the last 12 months.

Shops, services & community 3 Site works & minor 1
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 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.

Check a specific address →

The use fingerprint

What kind of change is being approved (last 12 months).
Density Industrial Amenity
An amenity-led suburb.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
3 Park / recreation
No decisions have been published for these applications yet, so we show what has been lodged and do not guess the outcome.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 16 Jun 2026.
Flood

Does Highland Park 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 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.

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Crime · the full mix

Is Highland Park safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
40
Traffic and Related Offences
36
Assault
23
Other Property Damage
23
Drug Offences
18
Unlawful Entry
16
Good Order Offences
14
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
9
Other Offences Against the Person
8
Fraud
6
Weapons Act Offences
5
Trespassing and Vagrancy
4
Miscellaneous Offences
2
Robbery
1
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
1
Handling Stolen Goods
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 Highland Park? 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
80%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Owner-held suburb
Professionals
17%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Median income
$731/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
761
a typical parcel here, across 3,164 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
32%
Owned with a loan
49%
Rented
17%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 80% of dwellings in Highland Park. 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.
Technicians and Trades Workers
18%
Professionals
17%
Community and Personal Service Workers
13%
Managers
12%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
12%
Labourers
11%
Professionals are the largest group at 17% of workers in Highland Park. 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 Highland Park.
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 Highland Park? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Highland Park

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
William Duncan State Schoolgovernment · 580 students

Value & yield

House sales in Highland Park, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (74 sales)As at Aug 2026
$906K
2024 median house only (79 sales)As at Aug 2026
$1.0M
2025 median house only (65 sales)As at Aug 2026
$1.2M
2026 median house only (17 sales)As at Aug 2026
$1.2M
3BR house rent (asking, 6 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$885/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
3.9%
Is Highland Park a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Highland Park.

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

Is Highland Park a good suburb?

Highland Park is a quiet, low-change suburb, with a typical house around $1.17M. It is about 9 km south-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.

What is the median house price in Highland Park?

The median house in Highland Park is about $1.17M (2026), below the the Gold Coast house median. Over two years that is a rise of about 29%.

Does Highland Park flood?

Flood risk in Highland Park 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 Highland Park a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 3.9% in Highland Park, right around the the Gold Coast house average of about 3.6%. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Highland Park a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 207 recorded offences in Highland Park, 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 Highland Park?

In the last twelve months the council logged 4 applications around Highland Park. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.

Now make it about your street

Check any Highland Park address.

Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.

Houses across Queensland · informational, not advice