PROPERTY X-RAY
Inala · 4077 · Brisbane

Inala, 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, 50 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
48
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
0.7%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
16days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 8 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
7
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
Inala in four numbers

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

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

+37%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Jun 2026
$940K
Median pace
2026 (15 sales)
PXR sales
As at Jun 2026
8
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
3.8%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Inala as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 50 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 8 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 1 Shops, services & community 1 Industry 1 Site works & minor 39
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 8 lots being subdivided · 1 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.
8 Lot subdivision
2 Earthworks / site prep
1 New houses
1 Retail / shopfront
1 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
1 Heavy industry
34 of 50 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 13 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • New lots 29 lots 92 Eugenia Street, Inala QLD 4077
  • New lots 2 lots 73 Poinciana Street, Inala
  • New lots 2 lots 16 Lowry Street, Inala
  • Apartments / use 700 m² Industrial storage yard / skip-bin transport depot mixedA tidy-up dressed as a development approval: it formalises the intended industrial edge and cleans up a derelict, container-strewn Rural lot, but it also nudges a lit, truck-serviced depot up against a small pocket of rural-residential homes and marks the industrial front advancing south.
  • Apartments / use 15 units Apartments accretiveQuality medium-density renewal on a well-located Inala block next to an existing unit block and a district centre; broadly supportive of the area, with on-street parking spillover the one real neighbour irritant.
  • New lots 2 lots 120 Buddleia Street, Inala
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Place of worship plus office accretiveMarcus Reid's read: a not-for-profit community/church upgrade on an existing Salvation Army site, low-rise and well-conditioned, is a quiet positive for the surrounding low-density street rather than a density threat.
  • Apartments / use Warehouse neutralCannot give a professional read: the decision notice, conditions package, code assessment and assessment report bodies were not readable in this extraction run.
  • Apartments / use 1 unit Warehouse neutralMarcus Reid: a low-rise speculative warehouse on a purpose-subdivided industrial pad in an established Inala/Wacol industrial pocket; effectively a non-event for surrounding values, with the only real-world friction being the adjoining caravan park to the north.
  • New lots 2 lots 46 Columba Street, Inala QLD 4077
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Inala 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 Inala safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

1,892 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
506
Drug Offences
277
Good Order Offences
192
Assault
178
Other Property Damage
167
Unlawful Entry
153
Traffic and Related Offences
136
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
79
Weapons Act Offences
51
Fraud
49
Other Offences Against the Person
35
Handling Stolen Goods
25
Trespassing and Vagrancy
18
Robbery
14
Miscellaneous Offences
6
Arson
6
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 Inala? 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
38%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
13%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Median income
$500/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
607
a typical parcel here, across 7,372 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
17%
Owned with a loan
21%
Rented
58%
Other / not stated
4%
Owner-occupier share is 38% of dwellings in Inala. 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.
Labourers
19%
Community and Personal Service Workers
17%
Machinery Operators and Drivers
14%
Professionals
13%
Technicians and Trades Workers
13%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
10%
Professionals are the largest group at 13% of workers in Inala. 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 Inala.
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 Inala? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Inala

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
St Mark's Schoolcatholic · 448 students
Western Suburbs State Special Schoolgovernment · 220 students
Serviceton South State Schoolgovernment · 454 students
Richlands East State Schoolgovernment · 508 students
Inala State Schoolgovernment · 416 students
Inala Flexible Schoolcatholic · 94 students

Value & yield

House sales in Inala, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (91 sales)As at Jun 2026
$605K
2024 median house only (108 sales)As at Jun 2026
$738K
2025 median house only (118 sales)As at Jun 2026
$828K
2026 median house only (15 sales)As at Jun 2026
$940K
3BR house rent (asking, 24 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$605/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
3.8%
Is Inala a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Inala.

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

Is Inala a good suburb?

Right now Inala is an affordability-led mover: 50 development applications landed in the last twelve months. Median house sits at $828K, well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. It is about 15 km south 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 Inala?

The median house in Inala is about $828K (2026), well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. Over two years that is a rise of about 37%.

Does Inala flood?

Flood risk in Inala 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 Inala a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 3.8% in Inala, 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 Inala a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 1,892 recorded offences in Inala, 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 Inala?

In the last twelve months the council logged 50 applications around Inala, 34 of them approved. That includes 8 lot subdivisions and 1 townhouse or multi-dwelling project, 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 Inala 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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