PROPERTY X-RAY
Parkwood · 4214 · Gold Coast

Parkwood, 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, 3 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
1.4%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
34days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 15 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
25
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
Parkwood in four numbers

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

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

+27%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Aug 2026
$1.4M
Median pace
2026 (28 sales)
PXR sales
As at Aug 2026
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Jun 2026
3.6%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Parkwood as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 3 applications in the last 12 months.

Site works & minor 3
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 →

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
No recent change-of-use applications.
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 24 Jun 2026.
Flood

Does Parkwood 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 Parkwood safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
145
Drug Offences
48
Traffic and Related Offences
42
Assault
39
Other Property Damage
35
Unlawful Entry
24
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
23
Fraud
20
Good Order Offences
19
Weapons Act Offences
12
Handling Stolen Goods
8
Other Offences Against the Person
7
Trespassing and Vagrancy
5
Robbery
2
Miscellaneous Offences
2
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
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 Parkwood? 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
69%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
23%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Median income
$736/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
766
a typical parcel here, across 3,108 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
27%
Owned with a loan
41%
Rented
30%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 69% of dwellings in Parkwood. 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
23%
Technicians and Trades Workers
15%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
13%
Community and Personal Service Workers
13%
Sales Workers
11%
Managers
10%
Professionals are the largest group at 23% of workers in Parkwood. 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 Parkwood.
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 Parkwood? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Parkwood

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
No school ICSEA data held for this suburb yet.

Value & yield

House sales in Parkwood, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (83 sales)As at Aug 2026
$968K
2024 median house only (101 sales)As at Aug 2026
$1.1M
2025 median house only (75 sales)As at Aug 2026
$1.2M
2026 median house only (28 sales)As at Aug 2026
$1.4M
3BR house rent (asking, 7 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$850/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
3.6%
Is Parkwood a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Parkwood.

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

Is Parkwood a good suburb?

At about $1.23M for the median house, Parkwood reads as a quiet, low-change suburb. Distance-wise it sits roughly 4 km north-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. 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 Parkwood?

A typical house in Parkwood sits around $1.23M (2026), roughly in line with the the Gold Coast house median. That is up roughly 27% over two years.

Does Parkwood flood?

Flood risk in Parkwood 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 Parkwood a good place to invest?

Parkwood's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 3.6%, 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 Parkwood a safe suburb?

Across Parkwood, police recorded about 432 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 Parkwood?

Parkwood had 3 development applications on the council register in the past year. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.

Now make it about your street

Check any Parkwood 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