Ranked #35 of 277 Brisbane suburbs for value. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
| Population | 4,173 |
| Area | 1.23 km² |
| Median household income | $2,671/wk |
| Median rent | $450/wk |
| Crime rate | 95.7 incidents per 1,000 people (Morningside police division — not suburb-level) |
| Parks | 7 (0.62 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Within 400m of a park | 86.8% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 0 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 16 |
It is around the middle of the pack for Brisbane, scoring 56/100 for safety and ranking #123 of 277 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 96 per 1,000 residents. That figure is reported for the Morningside police division, not for Balmoral alone — Queensland does not publish suburb-level crime data, so neighbouring suburbs in the same division share it.
It rates about average on the family measures we can compute — safety 56/100, parks 68/100 and green space 31/100. We do not hold school catchment data, so this does not account for schools — see our Brisbane families ranking for the full method.
Median rent is $450 a week, and household income ranks #37 of 277 in Brisbane. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 88/100 for value.
It scores 33/100 for transit, #211 of 277 in Brisbane. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
87% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 0.6 hectares per 1,000 residents — 31/100 for green space.
Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Brisbane: 100 is the
best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Updated August 2026. Sources: open GPS activity traces,
official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap.
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