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Moorooka

Ranked #39 of 277 Brisbane suburbs for cafés. 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
Moorooka suburb score card: safety, activity, value and other scores, Brisbane
Cafés86#39 of 277
Transit84#46 of 277
Schools nearby (OSM)74#70 of 277
Parks67#65 of 277

Moorooka suburb profile: score breakdown

Active
50
#133 of 277
Safety
58
#118 of 277
Wealth
36
#178 of 277
Value
63
#104 of 277
Parks
67
#65 of 277
Cafés
86
#39 of 277
Transit
84
#46 of 277
Green space
36
#210 of 277
Active & healthy
45
#177 of 277
Schools nearby (OSM)
74
#70 of 277

Moorooka crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers

Population10,783
Area4.01 km²
Postcode4105
Median household income$1,864/wk
Median rent$360/wk
Median house price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)$1,347,500 (140 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; ABS SA2 area, not suburb-level)
Median unit price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)$785,000 (96 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; ABS SA2 area, not suburb-level)
Crime rate92.7 incidents per 1,000 people (Moorooka police division — not suburb-level)
Parks20 (2.51 ha per 1,000 people)
Schools (government data)1 — 1 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.26 km, secondary 1.82 km
Families score60/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10)
Within 400m of a park84.4% of the suburb
Cafés11
Gyms & sport venues16
Public transport stops84 (1 train station, 83 bus stops)
Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning)2 schools in the suburb, plus 1 kindergarten — nearest is Moorooka State School (0.34 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 Moorooka

Population
10,783
Median age
36 years
Median household income
$1,864/wk
Median rent
$360/wk
Median house price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)
$1,347,500
Median unit price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)
$785,000

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 Moorooka — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.

Common questions about Moorooka

What is the postcode for Moorooka?

The postcode for Moorooka, Brisbane is 4105.

Is Moorooka a good suburb?

There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Moorooka is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is cafés, ranking #39 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 Moorooka safe?

It is around the middle of the pack for Brisbane, scoring 58/100 for safety and ranking #118 of 277 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 93 per 1,000 residents. That figure is reported for the Moorooka police division, not for Moorooka alone — Queensland does not publish suburb-level crime data, so neighbouring suburbs in the same division share it.

Is Moorooka good for families?

It rates about average on the family measures we can compute — safety 58/100, parks 67/100 and green space 36/100, with a median age of 36. It has 1 school in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.3 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 Moorooka expensive to live in?

The median house sale price was $1,347,500 in Apr 2025–Mar 2026 (Queensland Regional Profiles (QGSO), ABS SA2 level — Moorooka), . Median rent is $360 a week, and household income ranks #178 of 277 in Brisbane. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 63/100 for value.

Does Moorooka have good public transport?

It scores 84/100 for transit, #46 of 277 in Brisbane. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.

Are there parks in Moorooka?

84% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 2.5 hectares per 1,000 residents — 36/100 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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