PROPERTY X-RAY
Wacol · 4076 · Brisbane

Wacol, 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, 29 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
4
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
0.3%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
92days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 1 recorded house sale.
last 90 days
4
Asking-price cuts
Vendors discounting to shift stock. A classic softening signal.
Source: PXR listings & council parcel records · as at Oct 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
Wacol in four numbers

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

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

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House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Mar 2026
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Median pace
2026 (4 sales)
PXR sales
As at Mar 2026
4
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Oct 2026
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Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Oct 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Wacol as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 29 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 4 Industry 7 Site works & minor 18
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 4 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 with an industrial edge. Light on lifestyle amenity.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
11 Earthworks / site prep
5 Heavy industry
4 Lot subdivision
2 Warehouse / logistics
20 of 29 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 13 Oct 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Waste management facility mixedFor an industrial street that already lives next door to this operator, this is mostly business as usual with two sharp edges — the cul-de-sac loses its kerbside parking to B-double swept paths, and a bunded, unroofed tank farm taking grease trap and septic sludge puts odour risk into a pocket where the nearest commercial neighbour sits 280 metres away.
  • Apartments / use 15366 m² Industrial — heavy-equipment service, reconditioning and parts distribution facility (workshop, reman factory, parts warehouse, track/paint shops, ancillary offices); the changed element is an open-sided roofed hardstand/shade structure neutralThis is housekeeping on an existing Komatsu yard, not a development event: a shade roof over hardstand goes up two metres and grows by 59.5 square metres, deep inside a 6-hectare industrial site, and nothing about the street changes.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Industrial warehouse / workshop + transport depot accretiveA funded owner-occupier headquarters replacing a vacant, partly-vegetated lot in the Wacol industrial estate — net positive for surrounding industrial land, and this change actually reduces its scale.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Warehouse neutralAn internal tidy-up of an already-approved steel warehouse on industrial-zoned Wacol land, with no change to use, bulk or height, so it does not move the dial for the surrounding (almost entirely industrial) property.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Warehouse accretiveA modern two-building warehouse estate replacing a tired earthmoving yard and scrub, sitting squarely inside a designated Wacol industrial precinct — quiet renewal that lifts the estate, not a use that will rattle any neighbour.
  • New lots 2 lots 372 Progress Road, Wacol
  • New lots 2 lots 200 Tile Street, Wacol QLD 4076
  • Apartments / use 3 units Warehouse neutralQuality new industrial stock replacing a tired converted-dwelling-and-storage-yard inside an established industrial pocket — sensible infill that touches no residential neighbours.
  • Apartments / use 30 units Multi-unit industrial warehouse estate (with single on-site caretaker's accommodation) accretiveA vacant, weed-grown lot in an established Wacol industrial pocket being built out as a tidy, landscaped multi-unit warehouse estate - renewal that lifts the streetscape, with no nearby homes for the use to harm.
  • Apartments / use 1 unit Warehouse accretiveA tidy, well-buffered industrial consolidation that enclosing open steel yards under roof is a modest positive for the Wacol estate and a non-event for distant homes.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Wacol 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 Wacol safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Assault
263
Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
168
Traffic and Related Offences
123
Drug Offences
99
Unlawful Entry
39
Other Property Damage
31
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
15
Miscellaneous Offences
14
Good Order Offences
14
Fraud
11
Other Offences Against the Person
8
Weapons Act Offences
6
Handling Stolen Goods
5
Trespassing and Vagrancy
4
Robbery
3
Arson
3
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 21 Sep 2026.

Who lives here · the demand side

Who lives in Wacol? 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
40%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Professionals
10%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Median income
$485/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
728m²
a typical parcel here, across 1,585 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
18%
Owned with a loan
22%
Rented
56%
Other / not stated
4%
Owner-occupier share is 40% of dwellings in Wacol. 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.
Labourers
19%
Technicians and Trades Workers
17%
Community and Personal Service Workers
16%
Machinery Operators and Drivers
15%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
11%
Professionals
10%
Professionals are the largest group at 10% of workers in Wacol. Professional demographic, a resident base read as resilient.
Source: ABS Census 2021 (tenure, occupation, income) · Lot size from the QLD cadastre ·As at Oct 2026 · Census figures borrowed from the SA2 covering Wacol.
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 Wacol? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Wacol

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
Carole Park State Schoolgovernment · 167 students
Brisbane Youth Education and Training Centregovernment · 195 students

Value & yield

House sales in Wacol, and the rent it returns.
2025 median house onlyAs at Mar 2026
Not enough house sales in 2025 to publish a median. 3 sold.
2026 median house onlyAs at Mar 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 4 sold.
3BR house rent (asking, 5 live listings)As at Oct 2026
$600/wk
Is Wacol a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Wacol.

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

Is Wacol a good suburb?

There is plenty of change underway in Wacol, 29 applications on the register over the past year. It is about 17 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. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you, because the suburb average is never the whole picture. Check the exact address.

Does Wacol flood?

Flood risk in Wacol 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 Wacol a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 806 recorded offences in Wacol, most commonly assault. 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 Wacol?

In the last twelve months the council logged 29 applications around Wacol, 20 of them approved. That includes 4 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 Wacol address.

Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.

Houses across Queensland · informational, not advice