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McDowall
Ranked #8 of 277 Brisbane suburbs for safety. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
McDowall suburb profile: score breakdown
McDowall crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 7,612 |
| Area | 4.21 km² |
| Postcode | 4053 |
| Median household income | $2,486/wk |
| Median rent | $470/wk |
| Median house price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026) | $1,335,000 (75 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; ABS SA2 area, not suburb-level) |
| Median unit price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026) | $1,055,000 (88 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; ABS SA2 area, not suburb-level) |
| Crime rate | 26.0 incidents per 1,000 people (Albany Creek police division — not suburb-level) |
| Parks | 17 (12.37 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 1 — 1 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.71 km, secondary 2.48 km |
| Families score | 79/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 99.8% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 0 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 23 |
| Public transport stops | 29 (29 bus stops) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 1 school in the suburb, plus 3 kindergartens — nearest is McDowall State School (0.8 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 McDowall
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 McDowall — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about McDowall
What is the postcode for McDowall?
The postcode for McDowall, Brisbane is 4053.
Is McDowall a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- McDowall is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is safety, ranking #8 of 277 Brisbane suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Brisbane for 7 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is McDowall safe?
Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Brisbane, scoring 98/100 for safety and ranking #8 of 277 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 26 per 1,000 residents. That figure is reported for the Albany Creek police division, not for McDowall alone — Queensland does not publish suburb-level crime data, so neighbouring suburbs in the same division share it.
Is McDowall good for families?
It rates well on the family measures we can compute — safety 98/100, parks 68/100 and green space 85/100, with a median age of 38. It has 1 school in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.7 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 McDowall expensive to live in?
The median house sale price was $1,335,000 in Apr 2025–Mar 2026 (Queensland Regional Profiles (QGSO), ABS SA2 level — McDowall), . Median rent is $470 a week, and household income ranks #49 of 277 in Brisbane. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 68/100 for value.
Does McDowall have good public transport?
It scores 43/100 for transit, #159 of 277 in Brisbane. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in McDowall?
100% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 12.4 hectares per 1,000 residents — 85/100 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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