PROPERTY X-RAY
Stafford Heights · 4053 · Brisbane

Stafford Heights, 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, 43 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
30
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
1.1%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
14days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 11 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
7
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
Stafford Heights in four numbers

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

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

+32%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Jun 2026
$1.3M
Median pace
2026 (22 sales)
PXR sales
As at Jun 2026
6
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
3.1%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Stafford Heights as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 43 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 6 Shops, services & community 2 Site works & minor 35
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 6 lots being subdivided · 0 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.
6 Lot subdivision
3 New houses
1 School works
1 Shopping centre
30 of 43 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 13 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • New lots 2 lots 4 Jarvis Street, Stafford Heights (Lot 107 on RP90439)
  • New lots 2 lots 7 Quill Street, Stafford Heights
  • New lots 2 lots 11 Coleridge Street, Stafford Heights
  • New lots 2 lots 12 Coleridge Street, Stafford Heights — 1 into 2 reconfiguration
  • Apartments / use 39 units Apartments accretiveA 39-unit, 6-storey apartment building on an existing district shopping-centre site beside a Woolworths Metro is sensible infill that should lift, not dilute, surrounding Stafford Heights values — the main caveat is the loss of the small ground-floor retail and the tightness against the northern boundary.
  • New lots 2 lots 45 Maryland Street, Stafford Heights
  • New lots 2 lots 50 Jarvis Street, Stafford Heights
  • New lots 2 lots 50 Jarvis Street, Stafford Heights
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Stafford Heights 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 Heights safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
58
Unlawful Entry
46
Drug Offences
41
Other Property Damage
26
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
24
Assault
19
Traffic and Related Offences
18
Good Order Offences
12
Fraud
11
Weapons Act Offences
6
Handling Stolen Goods
6
Trespassing and Vagrancy
6
Other Offences Against the Person
3
Robbery
1
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 Stafford Heights? 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
67%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
30%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$897/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
625
a typical parcel here, across 2,756 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
31%
Owned with a loan
36%
Rented
29%
Other / not stated
4%
Owner-occupier share is 67% of dwellings in Stafford Heights. Owner-held pocket, 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
30%
Managers
14%
Technicians and Trades Workers
13%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
13%
Community and Personal Service Workers
10%
Sales Workers
8%
Professionals are the largest group at 30% of workers in Stafford Heights. 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 Heights.
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 Heights? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Stafford Heights

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Somerset Hills State Schoolgovernment · 103 students
Stafford Heights State Schoolgovernment · 303 students

Value & yield

House sales in Stafford Heights, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (118 sales)As at Jun 2026
$948K
2024 median house only (107 sales)As at Jun 2026
$1.1M
2025 median house only (127 sales)As at Jun 2026
$1.3M
2026 median house only (22 sales)As at Jun 2026
$1.3M
3BR house rent (asking, 27 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$740/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
3.1%
Is Stafford Heights a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Stafford Heights.

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

Is Stafford Heights a good suburb?

There is plenty of change underway in Stafford Heights, 43 applications on the register over the past year. Median house sits at $1.25M, below the Brisbane house median. It is about 8 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. 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 Stafford Heights?

The median house in Stafford Heights is about $1.25M (2026), below the Brisbane house median. Over two years that is a rise of about 32%.

Does Stafford Heights flood?

Flood risk in Stafford Heights 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 Heights a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 3.1% in Stafford Heights, 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 Heights a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 278 recorded offences in Stafford Heights, 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 Heights?

In the last twelve months the council logged 43 applications around Stafford Heights, 30 of them approved. That includes 6 lot subdivisions, 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 Heights 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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