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St Lucia

Ranked #2 of 277 Brisbane suburbs for active. 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
St Lucia suburb score card: safety, activity, value and other scores, Brisbane
Active96#2 of 277
Safety93#22 of 277
Cafés92#22 of 277
Parks90#11 of 277

St Lucia suburb profile: score breakdown

Active
96
#2 of 277
Safety
93
#22 of 277
Wealth
29
#198 of 277
Value
21
#220 of 277
Parks
90
#11 of 277
Cafés
92
#22 of 277
Transit
70
#84 of 277
Green space
61
#82 of 277
Active & healthy
74
#10 of 277
Schools nearby (OSM)
39
#171 of 277

St Lucia crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers

Population12,220
Area4.55 km²
Postcode4067
Median household income$1,761/wk
Median rent$410/wk
Median house price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)$2,070,000 (76 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; ABS SA2 area, not suburb-level)
Median unit price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)$881,250 (232 sales in the 12 months to March 2026; ABS SA2 area, not suburb-level)
Crime rate51.3 incidents per 1,000 people (Indooroopilly police division — not suburb-level)
Parks36 (2.8 ha per 1,000 people)
Schools (government data)1 — 1 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.25 km, secondary 1.41 km
Families score81/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10)
Within 400m of a park99.9% of the suburb
Cafés18
Gyms & sport venues106
Public transport stops68 (65 bus stops, 3 ferry wharfs)
Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning)1 school in the suburb, plus 4 kindergartens — nearest is Ironside State School (0.85 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 St Lucia

Population
12,220
Median age
25 years
Median household income
$1,761/wk
Median rent
$410/wk
Median house price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)
$2,070,000
Median unit price (Apr 2025–Mar 2026)
$881,250

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

Common questions about St Lucia

What is the postcode for St Lucia?

The postcode for St Lucia, Brisbane is 4067.

Is St Lucia a good suburb?

There is no single invented "overall" score here -- St Lucia is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is active, ranking #2 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 St Lucia safe?

Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Brisbane, scoring 93/100 for safety and ranking #22 of 277 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 51 per 1,000 residents. That figure is reported for the Indooroopilly police division, not for St Lucia alone — Queensland does not publish suburb-level crime data, so neighbouring suburbs in the same division share it.

Is St Lucia good for families?

It rates well on the family measures we can compute — safety 93/100, parks 90/100 and green space 61/100, with a median age of 25. It has 1 school in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.2 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 St Lucia expensive to live in?

The median house sale price was $2,070,000 in Apr 2025–Mar 2026 (Queensland Regional Profiles (QGSO), ABS SA2 level — St Lucia), . Median rent is $410 a week, and household income ranks #198 of 277 in Brisbane. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 21/100 for value.

Does St Lucia have good public transport?

It scores 70/100 for transit, #84 of 277 in Brisbane. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.

Are there parks in St Lucia?

100% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 2.8 hectares per 1,000 residents — 61/100 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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