PROPERTY X-RAY
Paddington · 4064 · Brisbane

Paddington, 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, 116 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
64
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
1.3%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
52days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 6 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
3
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
Paddington in four numbers

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

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

+10%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at May 2026
$2.1M
Median pace
2026 (35 sales)
PXR sales
As at May 2026
6
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
2.3%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Paddington as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 116 applications in the last 12 months, 1 refused.

Lot subdivision 3 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 1 Shops, services & community 2 Site works & minor 54
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 6 lots being subdivided · 5 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.
45 New houses
9 Earthworks / site prep
6 Lot subdivision
5 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
3 Retail / shopfront
1 School works
79 of 116 applications approved, 99% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 14 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • New lots 4 lots 202-212 Given Terrace, Paddington QLD 4064
  • Apartments / use 2 units Dual occupancy (two dwellings — retained character house + new dwelling) neutralA sympathetic, code-assessable dual occupancy that keeps the existing character home and adds one new dwelling behind it — gentle, low-controversy infill that barely moves the dial for neighbours either way.
  • New lots subdivision U 1 CHARTERIS PLACE 53 PLUNKETT ST PADDINGTON QLD 4064
  • New lots 4 lots Mort Street Housing (Nala Place community title scheme)
  • Apartments / use 3 units Attached/multi-unit dwellings (character residential) neutralA retrospective tick-off of a single 30 m² rooftop deck on one of three existing Paddington terraces — too minor to move surrounding values, and conditioned so neighbours barely feel it.
  • Apartments / use 5 units Apartments neutralA paperwork-level tweak to an already-approved boutique five-unit build; the redevelopment itself is mildly positive for Paddington, but this particular change moves nothing on the street.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Food and drink outlet (adaptive reuse of a character cottage) accretiveA small, carefully handled adaptive reuse of a pre-1946 cottage into a cellar door and dining venue on the established Given Terrace centre strip — it reinforces the precinct's hospitality character rather than disrupting the homes behind it.
  • New lots subdivision 173 LATROBE TCE PADDINGTON QLD 4064
  • New lots 2 lots 231 Fernberg Rd, Paddington QLD 4064 / 5 MacGregor Tce, Bardon QLD 4065
  • Apartments / use 4-storey Hotel tavern with function facility mixedQuality revitalisation of a landmark inner-west pub that lifts the Given Terrace commercial strip, but adds genuine amenity pressure on the low-density homes immediately behind it on Campbell Street.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Paddington 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.

Check a specific address →
Crime · the full mix

Is Paddington safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
89
Unlawful Entry
66
Traffic and Related Offences
32
Drug Offences
31
Other Property Damage
20
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
19
Trespassing and Vagrancy
18
Fraud
14
Assault
12
Good Order Offences
11
Handling Stolen Goods
4
Other Offences Against the Person
2
Miscellaneous Offences
2
Robbery
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 Paddington? 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
405
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 Paddington. 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 Paddington. 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 Paddington.
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 Paddington? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Paddington

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Petrie Terrace State Schoolgovernment · 257 students

Value & yield

House sales in Paddington, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (98 sales)As at May 2026
$1.8M
2024 median house only (112 sales)As at May 2026
$2.1M
2025 median house only (125 sales)As at May 2026
$2.0M
2026 median house only (35 sales)As at May 2026
$2.1M
3BR house rent (asking, 19 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$900/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
2.3%
Is Paddington a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Paddington.

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

Is Paddington a good suburb?

Right now Paddington is a suburb being actively reshaped: 116 development applications landed in the last twelve months. The typical house runs $2M, well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.42M. Distance-wise it sits roughly 3 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 Paddington?

A typical house in Paddington sits around $2M (2026), well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.42M. That is up roughly 10% over two years.

Does Paddington flood?

Flood risk in Paddington 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 Paddington a good place to invest?

Paddington's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 2.3%, right around 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 Paddington a safe suburb?

Across Paddington, police recorded about 321 offences over the last year, most commonly other theft. The complete mix is on the page. We do not slap a score on it, that judgment is yours.

What is being built in Paddington?

Paddington had 116 development applications on the council register in the past year, 79 of them approved. That includes 6 lot subdivisions and 5 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 Paddington 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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