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.
Three years of house sales, the development pipeline, and the rent it returns.
Every buyer judges Runaway Bay as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 16 applications in the last 12 months.
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 →A suburb-wide flood figure hides the only answer that matters: whether the specific lot you are looking at sits inside a mapped overlay.
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.
Check a specific address →538 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.
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 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.
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.
Both pictures side by side, from the latest data we hold.
Straight answers, built from the numbers on this page. We show the data and let you decide. Information only, not advice.
Runaway Bay reads as a prestige, big-ticket enclave: house values up about 10% in two years. The typical house runs $1.82M, well above the the Gold Coast house median of about $1.31M. Distance-wise it sits roughly 6 km north 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.
A typical house in Runaway Bay sits around $1.82M (2026), well above the the Gold Coast house median of about $1.31M. That is up roughly 10% over two years.
Flood risk in Runaway Bay 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.
Runaway Bay's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 2.5%, below 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.
Across Runaway Bay, police recorded about 538 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.
Runaway Bay had 16 development applications on the council register in the past year. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.
Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.