PROPERTY X-RAY
Willawong · 4110 · Brisbane

Willawong, 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, 51 in the last 12 months. More pins, more change.
Supply & demand · right now

A thin read on supply and demand.

For sale now
5
Active listings
Every property listed for sale in the suburb right now. Houses, townhouses, units and land.
of land parcels
0.1%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
Median days on market · houses
Not enough recorded house sales yet to time the market here.
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
Willawong in four numbers

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

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

House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at May 2026
Median pace
2026 (3 sales)
PXR sales
As at May 2026
2
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

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

Every buyer judges Willawong as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 51 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 2 Shops, services & community 3 Industry 9 Site works & minor 37
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 2 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.
17 Earthworks / site prep
7 Heavy industry
3 Park / recreation
2 Lot subdivision
2 Warehouse / logistics
36 of 51 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 7 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Industrial (vehicle repair / vehicle spray painting / warehouse / outdoor sales) dilutiveCouncil refused a heavy-industrial intrusion into a creek-side Environmental Management buffer that had already been unlawfully cleared, so for now the green setting that protects surrounding amenity stays intact, but the owner's intent is the real watch-signal.
  • New lots subdivision 108 KING AVE WILLAWONG QLD 4110
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Warehouse / industrial distribution facility accretiveQuality large-format industrial stock replacing two derelict car-wrecking yards inside a designated major-industry precinct — a clear net upgrade for the immediate industrial estate, with negligible residential interface.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Industrial warehouse / outdoor sales & vehicle storage yard (auto parts; ancillary dismantling + mechanical repairs) mixedAn auto-parts warehouse and outdoor vehicle-storage yard pushing industrial use onto an Environmental-Management-zoned arterial frontage — consolidating for the established industrial precinct to the east, but eroding the leafy buffer the zone implies for the dwellings and bushland opposite.
  • Apartments / use 5 units Warehouse (multi-tenancy industrial) mixedA textbook conversion of a rural-residential/nursery lot to multi-tenancy industrial — accretive for the area's industrial land story, mildly dilutive for the handful of homes still clinging to amenity in this pocket.
  • Apartments / use 6 units Automotive services centre (warehouse / workshop units) mixedA tidy new automotive-services precinct that sits comfortably in Willawong's established King Avenue industrial fringe, but spray-painting and heavy-vehicle traffic press against the larger-lot residential and creek-side land immediately south.
  • Apartments / use Container storage yard / hardstand (warehouse use — no building erected) neutralA low-intensity container-storage add-on inside an already-approved 8-hectare Mainfreight freight depot, dropped into a hard-industrial pocket with no sensitive neighbours — it barely moves the dial for surrounding property, which is itself industrial.
  • New lots 2 lots Industrial Development Willawong (Stockland Willawong Industrial Estate extension)
  • Apartments / use Industrial estate / general-industry & warehouse precinct (entitlement only — no built form approved at this stage) mixedA Stockland entitlement play that pulls another ~9 ha of Willawong rural land into the established Gooderham/Learoyd industrial belt — net positive for the area's industrial landowners and employment, but a long-dated overhang for the handful of nearby rural-residential dwellings.
  • Apartments / use 2-storey Warehouse / industrial distribution centre mixedMarcus Reid: a master-planned, well-buffered logistics estate completing an established industrial precinct — broadly expected for the area, with the only live tension being the heavy-vehicle/24-7 interface to the nearby Pallara homes.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Willawong 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 Willawong safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

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

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
123
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
21
Unlawful Entry
21
Traffic and Related Offences
21
Other Property Damage
12
Good Order Offences
10
Drug Offences
7
Assault
5
Handling Stolen Goods
4
Arson
4
Fraud
4
Trespassing and Vagrancy
2
Other Offences Against the Person
2
Robbery
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 Willawong? 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
72%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Owner-held suburb
Professionals
27%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$988/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
418
a typical parcel here, across 5,980 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
13%
Owned with a loan
59%
Rented
26%
Other / not stated
1%
Owner-occupier share is 72% of dwellings in Willawong. 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
27%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
14%
Community and Personal Service Workers
12%
Managers
11%
Technicians and Trades Workers
11%
Labourers
9%
Professionals are the largest group at 27% of workers in Willawong. 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 Willawong.
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 Willawong? And what it rents for.

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

Schools in Willawong

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
No school ICSEA data held for this suburb yet.

Value & yield

House sales in Willawong, and the rent it returns.
2024 median house only (5 sales)As at May 2026
$1.6M**
2025 median house only (6 sales)As at May 2026
$1.6M**
2026 median house onlyAs at May 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 3 sold.
** Data is thin, not accurate.
3BR house rent (RTA bonds (postcode))As at Aug 2026
$630/wk
Is Willawong a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Willawong.

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

Is Willawong a good suburb?

Willawong is one of the busier suburbs in Brisbane's south for development right now, with 51 applications on the council register in the past year. Distance-wise it sits roughly 14 km south 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 Willawong?

A typical house in Willawong sits around $1.64M (2026). That figure comes from very few sales, so the data is thin, not accurate — treat it as a rough marker rather than a market rate.

Does Willawong flood?

Flood risk in Willawong 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 Willawong a safe suburb?

Across Willawong, police recorded about 237 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 Willawong?

Willawong had 51 development applications on the council register in the past year, 36 of them approved. That includes 2 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 Willawong 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