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Morningside

Ranked #75 of 277 Brisbane suburbs for wealth. 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
Morningside suburb score card: safety, activity, value and other scores, Brisbane
Wealth73#75 of 277
Value69#87 of 277
Transit68#89 of 277
Safety56#122 of 277

Morningside suburb profile: score breakdown

Active
42
#170 of 277
Safety
56
#122 of 277
Wealth
73
#75 of 277
Value
69
#87 of 277
Parks
26
#233 of 277
Cafés
50
#133 of 277
Transit
68
#89 of 277
Green space
20
#247 of 277
Active & healthy
46
#166 of 277
Schools nearby (OSM)
52
#137 of 277

Morningside crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers

Population11,755
Area5.1 km²
Postcode4170
Median household income$2,280/wk
Median rent$430/wk
Median house price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)$1,700,000 (161 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; SA2 "Morningside - Seven Hills", not suburb-level)
Median unit price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)$950,000 (227 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; SA2 "Morningside - Seven Hills", not suburb-level)
Crime rate95.7 incidents per 1,000 people (Morningside police division — not suburb-level)
Parks12 (1.95 ha per 1,000 people)
Schools (government data)1 — 1 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.65 km, secondary 1.21 km
Families score55/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10)
Within 400m of a park66.3% of the suburb
Cafés2
Gyms & sport venues36
Public transport stops71 (1 train station, 70 bus stops)
Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning)1 school in the suburb, plus 3 kindergartens — nearest is Balmoral State High School (0.5 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 Morningside

Population
11,755
Median age
34 years
Median household income
$2,280/wk
Median rent
$430/wk
Median house price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)
$1,700,000
Median unit price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)
$950,000

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

Common questions about Morningside

What is the postcode for Morningside?

The postcode for Morningside, Brisbane is 4170.

Is Morningside a good suburb?

There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Morningside is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is wealth, ranking #75 of 277 Brisbane suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Brisbane for 6 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.

Is Morningside safe?

It is around the middle of the pack for Brisbane, scoring 56/100 for safety and ranking #122 of 277 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 96 per 1,000 residents. That figure is reported for the Morningside police division, not for Morningside alone — Queensland does not publish suburb-level crime data, so neighbouring suburbs in the same division share it.

Is Morningside good for families?

Mixed, and the weak spot is parks and green space. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 56/100, parks 26/100 and green space 20/100, with a median age of 34. 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 Morningside expensive to live in?

The median house sale price was $1,700,000 in Apr 2025–Mar 2026 (Queensland Regional Profiles (QGSO), ABS SA2 level — Morningside - Seven Hills), . Median rent is $430 a week, and household income ranks #75 of 277 in Brisbane. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 69/100 for value.

Does Morningside have good public transport?

It scores 68/100 for transit, #89 of 277 in Brisbane. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.

Are there parks in Morningside?

66% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 1.9 hectares per 1,000 residents — 20/100 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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