PROPERTY X-RAY
Milton · 4064 · Brisbane

Milton, 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, 28 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
44
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
0.9%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
38days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 2 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
13
Asking-price cuts
Vendors discounting to shift stock. A classic softening signal.
Source: PXR listings & council parcel records · as at Oct 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
Milton in four numbers

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

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

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House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Jul 2026
$1.8M
Median pace
2026 (6 sales)
PXR sales
As at Jul 2026
0
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Oct 2026
3.1%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Oct 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Milton as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 28 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Townhouse / multi-dwelling 2 Shops, services & community 7 Industry 1 Site works & minor 18
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 0 lots being subdivided · 2 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.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
6 New houses
4 Retail / shopfront
2 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
2 Office
1 Heavy industry
1 Medical / health
20 of 28 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 8 Oct 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • Apartments / use 192 units Apartments mixedA genuinely good corner outcome for Milton on paper — plaza, cafe, wider verges, retained jacarandas — but it is a 30-storey residential tower punched into an office precinct that the planning scheme says should not have housing, and the immediate cost lands on Graham Street in the form of parking spill, single-crossover servicing and years of demolition and excavation.
  • Apartments / use 130 units Apartments (high-rise residential tower) mixedThis is not a new tower dropped into a low-rise street, it is the long-stalled second half of a scheme whose twin is already standing next door, so the real story for neighbours is delivery risk and a construction window that keeps sliding, not a change in the character of Manning Street.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Office (adaptive reuse / conversion of an existing character dwelling) neutralA sensitively-scaled adaptive reuse of a tired pre-1946 character home into a boutique owner-occupier office on a busy arterial corner — directionally neutral for surrounding values, with a mild lift from character retention and capital investment, set against the usual commercial-creep concern that drew submissions.
  • Apartments / use 4-storey Mixed use commercial (office + retail/food and drink centre) accretiveMarcus Reid: a sensible renewal of an existing Milton office block into an active ground-floor shop/food-and-drink frontage in an already-commercial corridor — accretive to the precinct, and this particular change is immaterial to neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Day hospital / medical centre (day surgery + consulting + office) accretiveAdaptive reuse of an existing Milton commercial building into a licensed day surgery: a quality, low-impact medical tenancy that fits the Mixed Use (Inner City) zone and gently lifts the block, with on-street parking the only real neighbour watch-item.
  • Apartments / use 56 units Apartments mixedA 27-level, 56-apartment owner-occupier tower on a 1,214 m2 site lifts the quality of the address and removes a previously approved 143-room hotel, but it stacks roughly 90 metres of built form hard against a 9-10 storey neighbour on a narrow street, and it takes the block's only pub with it.
  • Apartments / use 6-storey Commercial / mixed-use centre (office building with ground-floor retail and food and drink) accretiveA façade refresh and ground-floor retail activation of an existing Milton office block — quietly positive for the immediate streetscape, with no change to bulk, height or residential amenity.
  • New lots 2 lots 33 Railway Tce, Milton QLD 4064
  • Apartments / use – Mixed use master-planned precinct (framework approval, not a detailed building permit) accretiveMarcus Reid: a quality, heritage-retaining mixed-use renewal of a tired Milton office block that should lift the surrounding precinct over time — but it's a long-horizon framework approval, so the upside is real but not imminent.
  • Apartments / use 113 units Apartments (mixed-use residential tower) accretiveA 21-storey mixed-use tower in Milton's centre zone is exactly the density the planning scheme intends here, so it lifts local amenity rather than disrupting an established character.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Milton 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 Milton safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
238
Unlawful Entry
66
Traffic and Related Offences
61
Drug Offences
55
Good Order Offences
46
Other Property Damage
42
Assault
25
Fraud
21
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
11
Weapons Act Offences
10
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
9
Handling Stolen Goods
6
Other Offences Against the Person
5
Robbery
4
Trespassing and Vagrancy
3
Miscellaneous Offences
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 21 Sep 2026.

Who lives here · the demand side

Who lives in Milton? 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
47%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
43%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$1,248/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
405m²
a typical parcel here, across 4,808 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
21%
Owned with a loan
27%
Rented
51%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 47% of dwellings in Milton. 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
43%
Managers
17%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
11%
Community and Personal Service Workers
10%
Sales Workers
7%
Technicians and Trades Workers
7%
Professionals are the largest group at 43% of workers in Milton. Professional demographic, a resident base read as resilient.
Source: ABS Census 2021 (tenure, occupation, income) · Lot size from the QLD cadastre ·As at Oct 2026 · Census figures borrowed from the SA2 covering Milton.
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 Milton? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Milton

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Milton State Schoolgovernment · 607 students
Hubbard's Schoolindependent · 58 students

Value & yield

House sales in Milton, and the rent it returns.
2025 median house only (19 sales)As at Jul 2026
$2.0M
2026 median house only (6 sales)As at Jul 2026
$1.8M**
** Data is thin, not accurate.
3BR house rent (asking, 4 live listings)As at Oct 2026
$1200/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Oct 2026
3.1%
Is Milton a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Milton.

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

Is Milton a good suburb?

Milton is a prestige, big-ticket enclave, with a typical house around $2M. It is about 2 km west 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 Milton?

The median house in Milton is about $2M (2026), well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.48M.

Does Milton flood?

Flood risk in Milton 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 Milton a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 3.1% in Milton, right around the Brisbane house average of about 2.6%. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Milton a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 604 recorded offences in Milton, 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 Milton?

In the last twelve months the council logged 28 applications around Milton, 20 of them approved. That includes 2 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 Milton 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