PROPERTY X-RAY
Rocklea · 4106 · Brisbane

Rocklea, 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, 46 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
15
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
0.2%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
40days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 7 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
12
Asking-price cuts
Vendors discounting to shift stock. A classic softening signal.
Source: PXR listings & council parcel records · as at Sep 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
Rocklea in four numbers

What is the median house price in Rocklea? 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 Oct 2026
$831K
Median pace
2026 (16 sales)
PXR sales
As at Oct 2026
4
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Oct 2026
4.5%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Oct 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Rocklea as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 46 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 4 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 1 Shops, services & community 4 Industry 16 Site works & minor 21
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 4 lots being subdivided · 1 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
An industrial-leaning suburb with an industrial edge. Light on lifestyle amenity.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
13 Heavy industry
4 New houses
4 Lot subdivision
3 Warehouse / logistics
3 School works
3 Earthworks / site prep
29 of 46 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 1 Oct 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • Apartments / use 5 units Townhouses mixedFive well-conditioned three-bedroom townhouses replacing one tired post-war house is a genuine lift for the streetscape, but this is Rocklea, and the flood report in this very packet shows the road out is under water for a day and a half in a real event, which is the thing that actually sets what surrounding homes are worth here.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Industrial - extensions to an existing cardboard box manufacturing plant (machine hall and corrugator annexe) neutralA cardboard plant that has been on this corner since the 1960s is bolting two sheds onto itself in the middle of a general industry estate, and the only thing a neighbour will genuinely notice is the build itself and a slightly busier four-way intersection that Council has left unresolved.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Educational establishment training facility (high-voltage transmission-lines / linesman contractor training; elevated modular/demountable building - explicitly NOT a substation or operating electrical facility) neutralA 40-year-old Powerlink linesman training ground gains one small flood-raised demountable and a sealed car park on a 10-hectare industrial floodplain with no residential neighbours; this formalises an existing use and does not move the dial for surrounding property.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Warehouse neutralA scaled-back refinement of an already-approved warehouse extension on an established Rocklea industrial site — directionally neutral for surrounding property, with a mild tidy-up benefit.
  • New lots subdivision 89 Medway Street, Rocklea
  • Apartments / use 9 units Industrial warehouse tenancies (multi-unit industrial estate) neutralA trivial s81 housekeeping amendment (200mm of extra slab, shuffled car parks, a tweaked footpath) to an already-approved industrial estate sitting in a General Industry C precinct — it does not move the dial on surrounding property either way.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Industrial factory / warehouse (beverage can manufacturing + materials baling) neutralAn incremental expansion of an established corporate factory inside a deep general-industry precinct — it intensifies an existing industrial use rather than introducing anything new to the street, so surrounding amenity barely moves.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Warehouse neutralA technical fit-out tweak to a warehouse already approved inside the Brisbane Markets industrial estate - nothing here moves the dial for surrounding property.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey School sports facility accretiveA well-resourced private-school sports campus on a 15-hectare flood plain reads as a mild positive for the surrounds: green open space and managed landscaping, low built bulk, and the main downside is intermittent traffic and event activity rather than overshadowing or density.
  • New lots 2 lots 46-52 Sherwood Road & 9-13 Melbourne Street, Rocklea
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Rocklea 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 Rocklea safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
179
Traffic and Related Offences
87
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
61
Unlawful Entry
39
Other Property Damage
28
Drug Offences
26
Assault
25
Good Order Offences
24
Fraud
24
Other Offences Against the Person
3
Handling Stolen Goods
3
Weapons Act Offences
2
Robbery
2
Trespassing and Vagrancy
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 21 Sep 2026.

Who lives here · the demand side

Who lives in Rocklea? 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
49%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
18%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Median income
$659/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
607m²
a typical parcel here, across 6,571 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
20%
Owned with a loan
29%
Rented
48%
Other / not stated
3%
Owner-occupier share is 49% of dwellings in Rocklea. 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
18%
Technicians and Trades Workers
16%
Labourers
15%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
13%
Community and Personal Service Workers
13%
Machinery Operators and Drivers
11%
Professionals are the largest group at 18% of workers in Rocklea. 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 Rocklea.
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 Rocklea? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Rocklea

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Rocklea State Schoolgovernment · 69 students

Value & yield

House sales in Rocklea, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (6 sales)As at Oct 2026
$450K**
2024 median house only (11 sales)As at Oct 2026
$790K
2025 median house only (24 sales)As at Oct 2026
$749K
2026 median house only (16 sales)As at Oct 2026
$831K
** Data is thin, not accurate.
3BR house rent (asking, 7 live listings)As at Oct 2026
$650/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Oct 2026
4.5%
Is Rocklea a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Rocklea.

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

Is Rocklea a good suburb?

What catches the eye in Rocklea is the yield, about 4.5% gross on a house. It reads as a rare income-friendly pocket. The typical house runs $749K, well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. Distance-wise it sits roughly 9 km south 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 Rocklea?

A typical house in Rocklea sits around $749K (2026), well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side.

Does Rocklea flood?

Flood risk in Rocklea 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 Rocklea a good place to invest?

Rocklea's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 4.5%, comfortably above the Brisbane house average of about 2.6%. 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 Rocklea a safe suburb?

Across Rocklea, police recorded about 506 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 Rocklea?

Rocklea had 46 development applications on the council register in the past year, 29 of them approved. That includes 4 lot subdivisions and 1 townhouse or multi-dwelling project, 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 Rocklea 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