PROPERTY X-RAY
Stafford · 4053 · Brisbane

Stafford, 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, 70 in the last 12 months. More pins, more change.
Supply & demand · right now

The market reads tight, in the buyer's favour.

Buyer signal: favourable
For sale now
29
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
22days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 10 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
2
Asking-price cuts
A few vendors trimming. Watch if the count keeps climbing.
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
Stafford in four numbers

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

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

+34%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Jun 2026
$1.5M
Median pace
2026 (19 sales)
PXR sales
As at Jun 2026
15
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
2.9%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Stafford as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 70 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 12 Shops, services & community 3 Industry 1 Site works & minor 44
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 15 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
A densifying suburb. Light on lifestyle amenity.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
15 Lot subdivision
2 Park / recreation
2 New houses
1 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
1 Retail / shopfront
1 Shopping centre
47 of 70 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.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Shopping centre accretiveA cosmetic facade and entry-statement refresh of the established Stafford City anchor centre — a modest, owner-funded reinvestment that lifts local amenity without adding density, traffic or bulk.
  • New lots 2 lots 77 Minimine Street, Stafford
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Medical centre accretiveA modern GP-and-pharmacy medical centre replacing a former service station on a busy Stafford Road corner is a genuine amenity gain for the area, and this particular change (a back-of-house medical-supply store plus an internal tenancy reshuffle) is invisible from the street and barely moves the dial.
  • New lots 6 lots 36, 38 & 38A Harold Street and 413 & 415 Stafford Road, Stafford QLD 4053
  • New lots subdivision 19 Kidgell St, Stafford QLD 4053
  • New lots 2 lots 6 Brennan Street, Stafford
  • New lots 2 lots 303 Stafford Road, Stafford
  • New lots 2 lots 578 Stafford Road, Stafford
  • New lots 4 lots 122-124 Webster Road, Stafford
  • Apartments / use Restaurant neutralA cosmetic refurbishment of a long-established McDonald's on a District Centre arterial corner. It changes nothing that touches the surrounding property market.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Stafford 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 Stafford safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
199
Drug Offences
133
Traffic and Related Offences
108
Good Order Offences
100
Unlawful Entry
44
Other Property Damage
43
Assault
42
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
38
Fraud
36
Handling Stolen Goods
22
Trespassing and Vagrancy
18
Weapons Act Offences
16
Robbery
10
Other Offences Against the Person
10
Miscellaneous Offences
4
Other Homicide
1
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 Stafford? 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
32%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$968/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
607
a typical parcel here, across 3,070 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
19%
Owned with a loan
30%
Rented
48%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 49% of dwellings in Stafford. 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
32%
Managers
13%
Technicians and Trades Workers
13%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
13%
Community and Personal Service Workers
11%
Labourers
7%
Professionals are the largest group at 32% of workers in Stafford. 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 Stafford.
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 Stafford? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Stafford

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Queen of Apostles Primary Schoolcatholic · 296 students
Stafford State Schoolgovernment · 246 students

Value & yield

House sales in Stafford, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (89 sales)As at Jun 2026
$950K
2024 median house only (97 sales)As at Jun 2026
$1.1M
2025 median house only (107 sales)As at Jun 2026
$1.3M
2026 median house only (19 sales)As at Jun 2026
$1.5M
3BR house rent (asking, 27 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$700/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
2.9%
Is Stafford a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Stafford.

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

Is Stafford a good suburb?

Stafford is one of the busier suburbs in Brisbane's north for development right now, with 70 applications on the council register in the past year. Median house sits at $1.27M, below the Brisbane house median. It is about 7 km north 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 Stafford?

The median house in Stafford is about $1.27M (2026), below the Brisbane house median. Over two years that is a rise of about 34%.

Does Stafford flood?

Flood risk in Stafford 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 Stafford a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 2.9% in Stafford, right around the Brisbane house average of about 2.7%. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Stafford a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 825 recorded offences in Stafford, most commonly other theft. We show the full breakdown and do not grade the suburb; you read it and decide what matters for your street.

What is being built in Stafford?

In the last twelve months the council logged 70 applications around Stafford, 47 of them approved. That includes 15 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 Stafford 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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