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Carina Heights

Ranked #40 of 277 Brisbane suburbs for safety. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.

By BestSuburbs research · Updated October 2026 · Brisbane
Carina Heights suburb score card: safety, activity, value and other scores, Brisbane
Safety86#40 of 277
Green space82#21 of 277
Transit76#68 of 277
Value51#136 of 277

Carina Heights suburb profile: score breakdown

Active
24
#236 of 277
Safety
86
#40 of 277
Wealth
46
#151 of 277
Value
51
#136 of 277
Parks
29
#225 of 277
Cafés
14
#253 of 277
Transit
76
#68 of 277
Green space
82
#21 of 277
Active & healthy
36
#229 of 277
Schools nearby (OSM)
29
#197 of 277

Carina Heights crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers

Population7,103
Area3.31 km²
Postcode4152
Median household income$1,997/wk
Median rent$403/wk
Median house price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)$1,520,000 (84 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; ABS SA2 area, not suburb-level)
Median unit price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)$910,000 (117 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; ABS SA2 area, not suburb-level)
Crime rate57.6 incidents per 1,000 people (Carina police division — not suburb-level)
Parks8 (16.77 ha per 1,000 people)
Schools (government data)0 — 0 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.8 km, secondary 0.8 km
Families score64/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10)
Within 400m of a park96.9% of the suburb
Cafés0
Gyms & sport venues1
Public transport stops58 (58 bus stops)
Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning)0 schools in the suburb — nearest is Whites Hill State College (0.7 km)

Sale prices: Queensland Regional Profiles (QGSO), 12 months ending 31 March 2026 — © The State of Queensland (Queensland Treasury), Queensland Government Statistician's Office, Queensland Regional Profiles, CC BY 4.0; suburb-to-SA2 placement via ABS ASGS 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Queensland publishes sale medians per ABS Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2 — "broadly equivalent to suburb size"), not per suburb, so this is the median for the SA2 the suburb sits in (named next to each figure when it differs); detached dwellings = houses, attached = units. The window is the latest 12 months, not a quarter, and QGSO withholds medians under 10 sales.

Who lives in Carina Heights

Population
7,103
Median age
36 years
Median household income
$1,997/wk
Median rent
$403/wk
Median house price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)
$1,520,000
Median unit price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)
$910,000

Source: ABS Census 2021; sale prices Queensland Regional Profiles (QGSO), 12 months ending 31 March 2026. We do not hold a suburb-level renter/owner split, families-with-children rate, born-overseas rate or dwelling-type breakdown for Carina Heights — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.

Common questions about Carina Heights

What is the postcode for Carina Heights?

The postcode for Carina Heights, Brisbane is 4152.

Is Carina Heights a good suburb?

There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Carina Heights is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is safety, ranking #40 of 277 Brisbane suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Brisbane for 4 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.

Is Carina Heights safe?

Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Brisbane, scoring 86/100 for safety and ranking #40 of 277 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 58 per 1,000 residents. That figure is reported for the Carina police division, not for Carina Heights alone — Queensland does not publish suburb-level crime data, so neighbouring suburbs in the same division share it.

Is Carina Heights good for families?

Mixed, and the weak spot is parks. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 86/100, parks 29/100 and green space 82/100, with a median age of 36. It has 0 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.8 km from its centre. School counts and distances feed the families score; catchment zoning and school results do not (we cannot publish those) — see our Brisbane families ranking for the full method.

Is Carina Heights expensive to live in?

The median house sale price was $1,520,000 in Apr 2025–Mar 2026 (Queensland Regional Profiles (QGSO), ABS SA2 level — Carina Heights), . Median rent is $403 a week, and household income ranks #151 of 277 in Brisbane. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 51/100 for value.

Does Carina Heights have good public transport?

It scores 76/100 for transit, #68 of 277 in Brisbane. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.

Are there parks in Carina Heights?

97% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 16.8 hectares per 1,000 residents — 82/100 for green space.

Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Brisbane: 100 is the best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Updated October 2026 (last updated 2026-10-15). Sources: open GPS activity traces, official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap.
About this data: every number on this page is computed from public sources — it is not an opinion or a sponsored placement. See how we rank suburbs for the full method.
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