PROPERTY X-RAY
Richlands · 4077 · Brisbane

Richlands, 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, 56 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
65
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
24days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 2 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
9
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
Richlands in four numbers

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

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

+21%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at May 2026
Median pace
2026 (2 sales)
PXR sales
As at May 2026
6
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
4.3%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Richlands as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 56 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 6 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 2 Shops, services & community 3 Industry 6 Site works & minor 39
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 6 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 with an industrial edge. Light on lifestyle amenity.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
8 New houses
6 Lot subdivision
5 Warehouse / logistics
4 Earthworks / site prep
2 Retail / shopfront
2 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
39 of 56 applications approved, 100% 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 3 lots 33 Graham Crescent, Richlands
  • Apartments / use 80 units Townhouses mixedSwapping the approved 5-storey apartment block for 3-storey townhouses is a clear amenity win for the immediate neighbours, but dropping 80 near-identical 3-bed townhouses into the Richlands pocket carries a real oversupply risk for comparable nearby stock.
  • New lots subdivision 39 GOODING PL RICHLANDS QLD 4077
  • Apartments / use 33 units Townhouses accretiveQuality two-storey townhouse renewal of a tired large lot right next to Richlands Plaza and a bus stop. This is the kind of planned infill that lifts a pocket rather than overwhelming it.
  • Apartments / use 31 units Industrial / warehouse subdivision (reconfiguration of a lot, multi-stage) accretiveRenewal of a derelict, contaminated former army barracks into a planned, remediated General Industry estate in an already-industrial Wacol/Richlands corridor — a net positive for the precinct, with truck traffic and the long-running approval timeline the main caveats.
  • Apartments / use 5 units Warehouse neutralA well-conditioned 5-tenancy warehouse estate on industry-zoned Richlands land: largely neutral-to-mildly-positive for surrounding industrial holdings, with delivery-hours noise the one factor any nearby residential edge should watch.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Shopping centre accretiveA new supermarket-anchored district centre on a major arterial corner lifts everyday convenience for surrounding Richlands homes, with the usual traffic and construction trade-offs concentrated on the Acacia St and Progress Rd edges.
  • Apartments / use 1 unit Warehouse neutralA vanilla industrial shed filling a long-vacant lot deep inside an established Richlands industrial estate — tidy renewal, but it won't move the dial on surrounding values either way.
  • Apartments / use 1924 m² Warehouse / low impact industry neutralA like-for-like intensification of an already-industrial yard deep inside the Wacol/Richlands freight precinct — directionally neutral for the warehouses that surround it, with a mild positive signal of continued investment in the precinct.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Warehouse mixedA modern 10,850 m² logistics warehouse doing exactly what its industry-zoned site in the Richlands/Wacol freight belt is meant to do — accretive for the industrial precinct, mildly dilutive for any home sitting on its boundary.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Richlands 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 Richlands safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
358
Traffic and Related Offences
123
Drug Offences
75
Unlawful Entry
60
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
46
Other Property Damage
39
Assault
34
Fraud
33
Good Order Offences
22
Other Offences Against the Person
13
Weapons Act Offences
11
Handling Stolen Goods
10
Robbery
5
Arson
2
Miscellaneous Offences
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 Richlands? 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 Richlands. 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 Richlands. 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 Richlands.
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 Richlands? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Richlands

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

Value & yield

House sales in Richlands, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (29 sales)As at May 2026
$665K
2024 median house only (43 sales)As at May 2026
$830K
2025 median house only (26 sales)As at May 2026
$808K
2026 median house onlyAs at May 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 2 sold.
3BR house rent (asking, 8 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$672/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
4.3%
Is Richlands a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Richlands.

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

Is Richlands a good suburb?

Right now Richlands is a rare income-friendly pocket: 56 development applications landed in the last twelve months. The typical house runs $808K, well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. Distance-wise it sits roughly 15 km south-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 Richlands?

A typical house in Richlands sits around $808K (2026), well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. That is up roughly 21% over two years.

Does Richlands flood?

Flood risk in Richlands 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 Richlands a good place to invest?

Richlands's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 4.3%, 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 Richlands a safe suburb?

Across Richlands, police recorded about 832 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 Richlands?

Richlands had 56 development applications on the council register in the past year, 39 of them approved. That includes 6 lot subdivisions and 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 Richlands 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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