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Scarborough
Ranked #8 of 277 Brisbane suburbs for schools nearby (osm). Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Scarborough suburb profile: score breakdown
Scarborough crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 9,178 |
| Area | 3.25 km² |
| Postcode | 4020 |
| Median household income | $1,336/wk |
| Median rent | $350/wk |
| Median house price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026) | $1,370,000 (349 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; SA2 "Scarborough - Newport", not suburb-level) |
| Median unit price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026) | $1,170,000 (199 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; SA2 "Scarborough - Newport", not suburb-level) |
| Crime rate | 127.8 incidents per 1,000 people (Redcliffe police division — not suburb-level) |
| Parks | 11 (0.81 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 1 — 1 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 1.41 km, secondary 2.25 km |
| Families score | 43/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 54.3% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 3 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 11 |
| Public transport stops | 54 (54 bus stops) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 4 schools in the suburb — nearest is Australian Trade College North Brisbane (0.21 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 Scarborough
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 Scarborough — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Scarborough
What is the postcode for Scarborough?
The postcode for Scarborough, Brisbane is 4020.
Is Scarborough a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Scarborough is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is schools nearby (osm), ranking #8 of 277 Brisbane suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Brisbane for 3 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is Scarborough safe?
It is on the less safe side of Brisbane, scoring 42/100 for safety and ranking #163 of 277 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 128 per 1,000 residents. That figure is reported for the Redcliffe police division, not for Scarborough alone — Queensland does not publish suburb-level crime data, so neighbouring suburbs in the same division share it.
Is Scarborough good for families?
Mixed, and the weak spot is green space. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 42/100, parks 42/100 and green space 10/100, with a median age of 53. It has 1 school in the suburb, with the nearest primary 1.4 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 Scarborough expensive to live in?
The median house sale price was $1,370,000 in Apr 2025–Mar 2026 (Queensland Regional Profiles (QGSO), ABS SA2 level — Scarborough - Newport), . Median rent is $350 a week, and household income ranks #253 of 277 in Brisbane. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 6/100 for value.
Does Scarborough have good public transport?
It scores 75/100 for transit, #69 of 277 in Brisbane. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Scarborough?
54% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 0.8 hectares per 1,000 residents — 10/100 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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