PROPERTY X-RAY
Toowong · 4066 · Brisbane

Toowong, 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, 103 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
90
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
2.6%
Stock on market
Within the balanced band of choice for buyers.
to go under offer
20days
Median days on market · houses
Houses selling quickly. Demand is outrunning supply on these streets. From 8 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
11
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
Toowong in four numbers

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

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

+26%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at May 2026
$2.0M
Median pace
2026 (9 sales)
PXR sales
As at May 2026
8
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
2.4%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Toowong as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 103 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 4 Townhouse / multi-dwelling 5 Shops, services & community 2 Site works & minor 49
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 8 lots being subdivided · 10 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 New houses
11 Earthworks / site prep
10 Townhouse / multi-dwelling
8 Lot subdivision
3 Retail / shopfront
2 Park / recreation
71 of 103 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.
  • Apartments / use 3-storey Apartments neutralA cosmetic balcony glazing on a single existing apartment unit - no measurable effect on surrounding property either way.
  • Apartments / use 30 units Apartments mixedA genuine near-term build that replaces a tired 3-storey walk-up with high-quality stock and adds height to a street already tipping toward towers, but a 16-storey form on a 1,078 m2 site in a designated transition precinct delivers real overshadowing and construction pain to its low-rise southern and western neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 176 units Apartments neutralA maintenance-driven internal tweak to two penthouses in an established riverfront tower — zero measurable effect on surrounding property values.
  • Apartments / use 42 units Apartments mixedA premium 17-storey riverfront tower that consolidates Glen Road's emerging high-density character but lands hard on its immediate 6-to-9-storey neighbours through overshadowing, traffic and a long basement excavation.
  • Apartments / use 28 units Rooming accommodation mixedA 28-room rooming-accommodation approval being kept alive by a 2-year extension on a tight Toowong block that is already tipping to higher density — directionally consistent with the corridor, but a lower-amenity, parking-light typology the immediate low-rise neighbours have fought hard.
  • Apartments / use Retail neutralThis is a paper extension of an existing approval's clock, not a fresh development decision — there is too little here to read a directional impact on surrounding property.
  • Apartments / use 9 units Apartments neutralA modest 9-unit, all-three-bedroom infill apartment building on an HDR-zoned Toowong lot — consistent with the planned character and well-parked, so largely neutral for neighbours, with the real questions being construction disruption and whether this decade-old approval will actually be built.
  • Apartments / use 24 units Apartments mixedA genuinely high-end riverfront tower that lifts the prestige ceiling for the Toowong river strip, but the two low-rise houses next door wear the overshadowing, overlooking and a multi-year deep-water build.
  • Apartments / use 5 units Apartments accretiveHalving the unit count to five large 3-4 bedroom apartments on a prominent Toowong corner is a quality-over-quantity downzoning of an already-approved scheme that should sit well with surrounding owners.
  • Apartments / use Material Change of Use — Development Permit (parent approval A004063613; specific use not stated in this extension packet) neutralMarcus Reid: this is an administrative currency-extension, not a fresh approval — the directional read is muted because the actual development scope (use, height, yield) isn't in this packet, only that a developer is keeping an HDR permit alive on a small Toowong site.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Toowong 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 Toowong safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

1,017 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
568
Unlawful Entry
95
Drug Offences
55
Assault
51
Traffic and Related Offences
51
Other Property Damage
45
Good Order Offences
42
Fraud
36
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
20
Weapons Act Offences
14
Handling Stolen Goods
12
Other Offences Against the Person
12
Trespassing and Vagrancy
7
Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)
4
Robbery
3
Miscellaneous Offences
2
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 Toowong? 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
43%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$972/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
534
a typical parcel here, across 3,471 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
21%
Owned with a loan
23%
Rented
54%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 44% of dwellings in Toowong. 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
43%
Managers
13%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
12%
Community and Personal Service Workers
11%
Sales Workers
8%
Technicians and Trades Workers
7%
Professionals are the largest group at 43% of workers in Toowong. 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 Toowong.
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 Toowong? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Toowong

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Queensland Academy for Science Mathematics and Technologygovernment · 1,358 students
Brisbane Boys' Collegeindependent · 1,393 students
Stuartholme Schoolcatholic · 815 students
St Ignatius Schoolcatholic · 272 students
Omni Academies of Learningindependent · 33 students
Toowong State Schoolgovernment · 463 students

Value & yield

House sales in Toowong, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (50 sales)As at May 2026
$1.5M
2024 median house only (63 sales)As at May 2026
$1.6M
2025 median house only (83 sales)As at May 2026
$1.9M
2026 median house only (9 sales)As at May 2026
$2.0M**
** Data is thin, not accurate.
3BR house rent (asking, 10 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$890/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
2.4%
Is Toowong a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Toowong.

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

Is Toowong a good suburb?

Right now Toowong is a suburb being actively reshaped: 103 development applications landed in the last twelve months. Median house sits at $1.9M, well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.42M. It is about 4 km 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. None of this is a rating. Every street tells its own story, so run the specific address before you commit.

What is the median house price in Toowong?

The median house in Toowong is about $1.9M (2026), well above the Brisbane house median of about $1.42M. Over two years that is a rise of about 26%.

Does Toowong flood?

Flood risk in Toowong 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 Toowong a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 2.4% in Toowong, 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 Toowong a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 1,017 recorded offences in Toowong, 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 Toowong?

In the last twelve months the council logged 103 applications around Toowong, 71 of them approved. That includes 8 lot subdivisions and 10 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 Toowong 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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