PROPERTY X-RAY
Macleay Island · 4184 · Redland

Macleay Island, 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, 85 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
112
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
0.6%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
47days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 12 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
10
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
Macleay Island in four numbers

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

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

+35%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Aug 2026
$597K
Median pace
2026 (80 sales)
PXR sales
As at Aug 2026
0
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Jul 2026
5.1%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Macleay Island as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 85 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Shops, services & community 1 Site works & minor 59
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 0 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.
12 New houses
3 Earthworks / site prep
1 Medical / health
1 Park / recreation
1 Retail / shopfront
47 of 85 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 23 Jul 2026.
Flood

Does Macleay Island 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 Redland 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 Macleay Island safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Traffic and Related Offences
40
Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
32
Drug Offences
27
Other Property Damage
25
Assault
24
Good Order Offences
24
Fraud
11
Unlawful Entry
9
Weapons Act Offences
7
Trespassing and Vagrancy
6
Other Offences Against the Person
4
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
4
Handling Stolen Goods
4
Miscellaneous Offences
2
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
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 Macleay Island? 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
73%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Owner-held suburb
Professionals
16%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Median income
$455/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
592
a typical parcel here, across 17,563 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
51%
Owned with a loan
22%
Rented
23%
Other / not stated
4%
Owner-occupier share is 73% of dwellings in Macleay Island. 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
16%
Technicians and Trades Workers
16%
Community and Personal Service Workers
16%
Labourers
13%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
11%
Managers
10%
Professionals are the largest group at 16% of workers in Macleay Island. 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 Macleay Island.
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 Macleay Island? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Macleay Island

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
MacLeay Island State Schoolgovernment · 156 students

Value & yield

House sales in Macleay Island, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (93 sales)As at Aug 2026
$416K
2024 median house only (144 sales)As at Aug 2026
$443K
2025 median house only (148 sales)As at Aug 2026
$560K
2026 median house only (80 sales)As at Aug 2026
$597K
3BR house rent (asking, 6 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$550/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
5.1%
Is Macleay Island a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Macleay Island.

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

Is Macleay Island a good suburb?

There is plenty of change underway in Macleay Island, 85 applications on the register over the past year. The typical house runs $560K, well below the Redland house median, on the affordable side. Distance-wise it sits roughly 37 km south-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 Macleay Island?

A typical house in Macleay Island sits around $560K (2026), well below the Redland house median, on the affordable side. That is up roughly 35% over two years.

Does Macleay Island flood?

Flood risk in Macleay Island 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 Macleay Island a good place to invest?

Macleay Island's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 5.1%, comfortably above the Redland house average of about 3.3%. 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 Macleay Island a safe suburb?

Across Macleay Island, police recorded about 221 offences over the last year, most commonly traffic and related 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 Macleay Island?

Macleay Island had 85 development applications on the council register in the past year, 47 of them approved. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.

Now make it about your street

Check any Macleay Island 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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