PROPERTY X-RAY
St Lucia · 4067 · Brisbane

St Lucia, 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, 39 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
74
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
2.3%
Stock on market
Within the balanced band of choice for buyers.
to go under offer
28days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 7 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
22
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
St Lucia in four numbers

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

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

+30%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Jul 2026
$2.2M
Median pace
2026 (17 sales)
PXR sales
As at Jul 2026
5
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
2.0%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges St Lucia as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 39 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 5 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 5 Site works & minor 29
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 5 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.
5 Earthworks / site prep
5 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
5 Lot subdivision
3 New houses
20 of 39 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 28 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • Apartments / use 46 units Apartments mixedFor Macquarie Street generally this is a clear upgrade — two tired houses on the river replaced by 46 large, genuinely premium apartments in a zone that already allows 15 storeys — but for the immediate western neighbour at 172 Macquarie Street it is a real and lasting loss of amenity, and it quietly rewrites the built-form rules on this strip from towers-in-gardens to boundary-to-boundary podiums.
  • Apartments / use 10 units Apartments accretiveA modest-height 10-unit apartment building delivering exactly the density St Lucia's low-medium residential zoning intends; broadly accretive for a UQ-catchment street, with the usual short-term bulk and construction trade-offs for immediate neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 11 units Townhouses neutralA cosmetic private-amenity tweak (one plunge pool and deck) on an already-approved, largely-built 11-townhouse complex; it moves nothing for the surrounding street.
  • Apartments / use 3 units Townhouses accretiveQuality low-rise infill that consolidates an already-densifying St Lucia pocket; net positive for the street, with short-term construction and parking friction the main downsides.
  • New lots 2 lots 42 Prospect Terrace, St Lucia
  • Apartments / use 6 units Multiple dwelling (townhouse/apartment complex) neutralA louvre patio roof on one unit of an existing complex — invisible to the market and immaterial to surrounding property.
  • Apartments / use 4 units Townhouses accretiveA modest, high-quality 4-storey townhouse infill replacing a tired single house on a street already framed by 4-to-10-storey towers — net positive for the streetscape, with the one real pinch point being the single-storey neighbour at the rear.
  • Apartments / use 4 units Townhouses accretiveA vacant, under-utilised infill pocket beside UQ being filled with low-rise townhouses that match the established 3-to-4-storey neighbours — mildly positive for the street, with the usual student-density caveats.
  • Apartments / use 8 units Multiple dwelling (walk-up apartments — adaptive reuse / refurbishment + minor extension) neutralA paper-only parking-allocation change to an already-built St Lucia walk-up beside UQ; it does nothing to the bulk, scale or use and has no real bearing on surrounding property.
  • New lots 2 lots 83 Upland Road, St Lucia QLD 4067
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does St Lucia 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 St Lucia safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
106
Unlawful Entry
47
Other Property Damage
27
Fraud
14
Assault
13
Trespassing and Vagrancy
12
Drug Offences
11
Other Offences Against the Person
9
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
6
Miscellaneous Offences
5
Good Order Offences
4
Traffic and Related Offences
3
Handling Stolen Goods
3
Robbery
1
Arson
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 St Lucia? 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
44%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
40%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$548/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
521
a typical parcel here, across 3,181 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
18%
Rented
53%
Other / not stated
3%
Owner-occupier share is 44% of dwellings in St Lucia. 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
40%
Community and Personal Service Workers
15%
Managers
10%
Sales Workers
10%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
10%
Labourers
7%
Professionals are the largest group at 40% of workers in St Lucia. 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 St Lucia.
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 St Lucia? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in St Lucia

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Ironside State Schoolgovernment · 895 students

Value & yield

House sales in St Lucia, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (48 sales)As at Jul 2026
$1.7M
2024 median house only (51 sales)As at Jul 2026
$2.1M
2025 median house only (59 sales)As at Jul 2026
$2.2M
2026 median house only (17 sales)As at Jul 2026
$2.2M
3BR house rent (asking, 6 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$822/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
2%
Is St Lucia a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about St Lucia.

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

Is St Lucia a good suburb?

At about $2.19M for the median house, St Lucia reads as a suburb being actively reshaped. Distance-wise it sits roughly 4 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. That is the read from the data, not a verdict. The only number that truly counts is the one for the exact address, so check the lot before you fall for the suburb.

What is the median house price in St Lucia?

A typical house in St Lucia sits around $2.19M (2026), well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.45M. That is up roughly 30% over two years.

Does St Lucia flood?

Flood risk in St Lucia 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 St Lucia a good place to invest?

St Lucia's gross yield on a 3-bedroom house is around 2%, below the Brisbane house average of about 2.7%. With prices climbing, the play here is capital growth rather than cashflow. You would probably top up the holding costs from your own pocket. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is St Lucia a safe suburb?

Across St Lucia, police recorded about 262 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 St Lucia?

St Lucia had 39 development applications on the council register in the past year, 20 of them approved. That includes 5 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 St Lucia 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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