Bohle Plains QLD 4817
Bohle Plains is a suburb in Queensland, 1,375 km from Brisbane CBD, around 15 hours 35 minutes by car. Population is 3,989; the median age is 28 and the median household income is $121,108 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the top 40% nationally. Population grew 24.5% from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $350 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,733. The area shows high bushfire risk and high crime risk. Walkability is low.
Is Bohle Plains a good suburb?
Bohle Plains scores a D (31/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on community, weaker on transit.
Car-dependent
Walkability 0/100 · 1375.1 km · 936 min drive to Brisbane
Median available
Median $750K
Moderate bushfire risk
Fire 67/100 · Crime 66/100
Advantaged
SEIFA decile 8/10 · median age 28 · 3,989 residents
Liveability Rating
31 / 100 · Ranked #920 in QLDEach bar is Bohle Plains's rank among QLD suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better). Scored on 4 of 5 factors: no school data, so the other factors carry its weight.
Flood data for Queensland covers only the areas mapped there — a blank here is not an all-clear.
How do you rate the liveability in Bohle Plains?
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Our score
31 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
Residents say
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Median House Price
Public listings dataBohle Plains's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $750,000, about 8% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$749,500
14% above its 7 neighbours (median $655,500)
Based on 152 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 22 days — median across 85 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 26 sales $694K
- 4 bed 117 sales $760K
- 5 bed 8 sales $950K
Land
$380,000
Based on only 5 sales — small sample, take as indicative.
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Bohle Plains are currently listed at around $775,000 on average. Based on 67 houses listed in the past six months.
$775K
67 houses listed in the last 6 months.
67 of the suburb's 1,373 dwellings (4.9%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Bohle Plains rent for around $685 a week on average, based on 51 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$685/wk
16% above its 3 neighbours (median $590/wk)
51 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
52 rentals advertised against an estimated 600 rented homes (8.7%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- 3-bed houses
- $550/wk
- 10 bonds
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies. Asking rents above come from advertised listings.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025111 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 27% of its income on the median rent in postcode 4817.
SGS Rental Affordability Index: a score of 100 means rent takes 30% of income, the usual housing-stress line; lower scores are less affordable. "Region" is the capital city or the rest of the state.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$685/week ($36,000 a year) on a $775,000 median
Gross yield — before strata, rates, management, insurance and vacancy. Calculated from median advertised rents and median asking prices over the last 6 months. How we calculate.
Is Bohle Plains safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Bohle Plains sits in the moderate band, with 31 incidents recorded in 2025 — down about 3% on the prior year.
31 offences
3.1% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2020–202430 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital
Where they happened
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the suburb carries people passing through; this is not a measure of risk to residents. Roads are listed with 3 or more serious crashes.
Schools
Walkability
Bohle Plains is very car-dependent on foot — at 0/100, nearly all errands require a car.
We hold no public transport timetable data for this area, so public transport is not rated here and the score is spread across the remaining components. It is not counted as zero.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Bohle Plains.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 3.8 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 3.3 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 3.4 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 3 min
- Span of service
- 10.9 hours
Scheduled service only, based on the 21 October 2026 timetable. Reliability (delays, cancellations) not measured.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Bohle Plains.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 81%
- Premises covered
- 1,808
NBN Co fixed-line and fixed-wireless premises, as at 30 December 2025. Higher-quality technologies (full fibre) score above copper, wireless, and satellite. Actual speeds depend on your plan.
Amenities
Townsville: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this suburb alone — this suburb's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 10 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 4 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Bohle Plains is home to about 4,000 residents, and skews young, with a median age of 28 against the national 38. Median household income runs at $121,000 a year, with unemployment at 2.5%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
3,989
Median Age
28
Median Household Income
$121,108/yr
Census Median Rent
$350/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,733/mo
Avg Household Size
2.8
Median Personal Income
$58,760/yr
Unemployment Rate
2.5%
Unoccupied Dwellings
5.2%
Total Dwellings
1,373
Owner-Occupier Rate
56.3%
Houses
94.4%
Rental Stress
15.0%
Mortgage Stress
17.2%
Work From Home
4.5%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
24 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 0 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 592 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 83.1%
- English Spoken at Home
- 88.3%
- Employment Rate
- 76.2%
- Completed Year 12
- 48.6%
Occupations
Religion
Country of Birth (overseas)
Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents.
When They Arrived
Share of all residents by the year they arrived in Australia. Periods cover different numbers of years, so compare the shape rather than the bar widths.
83 residents (2.1%) arrived since 2016. Australia’s borders were closed to most arrivals from March 2020, so the last two years of that period are much smaller than the ones before them — nationally 260,799 people arrived in 2019 against 28,521 in 2021.
Where New Residents Came From
Where residents aged five and over lived five years before the 2021 Census, for those who lived somewhere else.
12.5% of residents (449) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Brisbane (172).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 3,595 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Languages Spoken at Home
Top languages other than English, as a share of all residents.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
1% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (14 of 2,276).
City centre: the ABS area around each capital's CBD, such as Sydney Inner City or Perth City (which takes in Subiaco and Leederville). 2021 Census place of work.
Local Jobs
People who work in this suburb against employed people who live here, 2021 Census.
About 577 people work here; 2,276 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.3 jobs per working resident. At least 72% of employed residents must work outside the suburb.
Counts are by place of work and place of usual residence. The ABS counts jobs in zones; where a zone spans several places, its jobs are shared out by land use. The ABS also adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $1,810 a year through Townsville based on 2025 figures.
Building Approvals: Townsville
In the year to August 2026, 1,096 new dwellings were approved across Townsville. That mix is 991 houses and 105 units. Approvals are down 22.3% on the same period a year earlier.
New Homes Planned
New homes planned in this suburb: at least 635 homes
- Within 2 years 12 to 40 homes
- In 2 to 5 years 122 to 550 homes
- In 10 years or more at least 501 homes
Land the Queensland Government's residential land supply study identifies for future housing (5 parcels), by when it expects lots to be registered. Yields are published in ranges, so these are too.
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage
The Aboriginal party for this area is Gurambilbarra Wulgurukaba People.
Under Queensland's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 the Aboriginal party for an area follows native title. A native title claim over this area is registered with the Federal Court.
Air Quality
MODERATEPM2.5 averaged 6 µg/m³ in 2025 — below Australia's NEPM annual standard (8 µg/m³), slightly above the stricter WHO guideline (5 µg/m³). 1 day exceeded the daily threshold of 25 µg/m³.
PM10 averaged 15.6 µg/m³ · NO₂ averaged 0.25 pphm. Days over the limit in 2025: PM10 1 · NO₂ 0.
From the North Ward (Townsville, North Queensland) monitoring station, 14.7 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Townsville Aero, 10.8 kmHigh rainfall — warm summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 26 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 11.3 km
- Annual rainfall
- 1,304 mm
- 65 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 31.8°C
- 5 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 15.0°C
- 0 frost days ≤ 0°C
Elevation is the ground at the suburb centre, from Geoscience Australia's National Digital Elevation Model. Approximate — it reads high in dense built-up areas. It is a measure of height above sea level and not an indicator of flood risk, which depends on height above nearby waterways.
Industrial Emissions Nearby
3 facilities within 5 km- 3.3 kmWaste Remediation and Materials Recovery ServicesTop reported: Carbon monoxide · Oxides of Nitrogen · Sulfur dioxide
- 3.3 kmWaste Treatment and Disposal ServicesTop reported: Chlorine & compounds · Ammonia (total) · Total Volatile Organic Compounds
- 4.2 kmGravel and Sand QuarryingTop reported: Particulate Matter ≤10.0 µm (PM10) · Oxides of Nitrogen · Carbon monoxide
EV adoption
In postcode 4817, 97 of 24,485 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.8% (694 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 3.2%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 4817, 8,836 rooftop-solar systems totalling 58.6 MW have been installed since 2001, against 11,576 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 624 went up in the last year.
Counts every system certified since 2001, so a roof re-fitted with a newer system is counted twice, and small commercial systems are included alongside houses — useful for comparing postcodes, not an estimate of how many homes have working panels today.
2026 covers part of the year only, to 2026-07.
First Home Owner Grant
FY2026-27$30,000 for new homes priced up to $750,000.
$30,000 for contracts signed on or after 20 November 2023, with no end date. IT DID NOT REVERT TO $15,000: the tier was due to end 30 June 2026 and the 2026-27 Queensland Budget (23 June 2026) continued it for contracts signed from 1 July 2026. This file carried a "due to revert" note until 2026-09-18 — it was never true, and a note predicting a change is not the same as a change. Cap is "less than $750,000" including land and contract variations — less than, not up to. New homes only: "There are no home owner grants for established homes."
Mortgage repayments
1 mortgage broker is registered in postcode 4817.
Transfer duty at the owner-occupier rate, and it excludes first home buyer concessions — those can cut it substantially or remove it entirely. Excludes legal, inspection and lender fees. Check with Queensland Revenue Office
The First Home Owner Grant applies to newly built homes only, so it isn't available on an established purchase. A first home buyer building or buying new under $750,000 may qualify for $30,000 — see what qualifies with Queensland Revenue Office.
At $749,500 this is under the $750,000 First Home Owner Grant cap. A first home buyer may qualify for $30,000 on a newly built home — check eligibility with Queensland Revenue Office.
A deposit under 20% usually attracts Lenders Mortgage Insurance, which this doesn't include.
Principal and interest over 30 years, fixed rate. Excludes fees, offset, redraw and LMI. Default rate is the median comparison rate across 1788 advertised products as at 2026-10-27 — indicative only, and not an offer. Your rate depends on the lender, your deposit and your circumstances. Not financial advice.
Federal Electorate
Currently held by Phillip Thompson Liberal National Party of Queensland
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Phillip Thompson | 36.6% | 63.4% | -1.6 |
| 2022 | Phillip Thompson | 38.2% | 61.8% | +3.4 |
| 2019 | Phillip Thompson | 41.6% | 58.4% | +8.4 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact suburb's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Wayde Chiesa Liberal National Party of Queensland — elected at the Nov 2025 by-election, after the results below
Next state election: 28 October 2028.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Nick Dametto KAP | 63.2% |
| 2020 | Nick Dametto KAP | 64.8% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2017, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this suburb's voters. Results: Electoral Commission of Queensland.
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- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
- Flood, bushfire and noise mapping, where the state publishes it
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Featured in
- #2 in Townsville suburbs that added the most residents, 2016-2021
- #2 in Townsville suburbs where the most Malayalam is spoken at home
- #3 in Townsville suburbs that grew fastest, 2016-2021
- #3 in Townsville's highest-income suburbs
- #3 in Where the Indian community lives in Townsville
- #3 in Townsville suburbs where the most residents moved from a capital city
- #4 in Townsville suburbs where the most Filipino is spoken at home
- #4 in Townsville suburbs where young families live
- #6 in Townsville suburbs with the largest Hindu community
- #10 in Townsville suburbs with the deepest rental markets
- #10 in Townsville's most educated suburbs
- #11 in Townsville suburbs with the largest Muslim community
- #11 in Townsville suburbs with the largest non-religious population
- #12 in The safest suburbs in Townsville
Nearby suburbs
Kirwan QLD 4817
Condon QLD 4815
Deeragun QLD 4818
Alice River QLD 4817
Jensen QLD 4818
Rangewood QLD 4817
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Common questions about Bohle Plains
Is Bohle Plains a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Bohle Plains is moderate (66/100, ranked against other QLD suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Bohle Plains?
Bohle Plains has a moderate recorded bushfire history (67/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Bohle Plains a good place to live?
Bohle Plains has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of D (31/100), ranked against other QLD suburbs on school quality (25%), safety (25%), SEIFA socio-economic advantage (25%), walkability (15%) and CBD access (10%). Whether it suits you depends on what you weigh — each of those is on this page.
What is the population of Bohle Plains?
Bohle Plains, QLD had a population of 3,989 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Bohle Plains, QLD?
The postcode for Bohle Plains, QLD is 4817.
How far is Bohle Plains from Brisbane?
Bohle Plains is 1,375 km from Brisbane CBD by road, about 936 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Bohle Plains?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Bohle Plains was $121,108 a year. It is the most recent suburb-level income figure until 2026 Census results are released in 2027.
What is the median weekly rent in Bohle Plains?
The median advertised rent in Bohle Plains is $685 a week for houses (51 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Bohle Plains?
The median age of residents in Bohle Plains was 28 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Bohle Plains at risk of bushfire?
Bohle Plains has a moderate recorded bushfire history (67/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the suburb relative to its size, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history. It records where fire has burned, not a bushfire-prone land designation, which your council's planning scheme sets.
What is the air quality in Bohle Plains?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Bohle Plains (North Ward (Townsville, North Queensland)) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 6.0 µg/m³ and PM10 of 15.6 µg/m³. That puts Bohle Plains below the Australian NEPM annual standard of 8 µg/m³ but above the stricter WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³.
What is the weather like in Bohle Plains?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Bohle Plains, Townsville Aero (10.8 km away), summer days average 31.8°C, winter nights 15°C, 1,304 mm of rain a year over 65 rainy days, and 5 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Bohle Plains?
First-home buyers in QLD may be eligible for $30,000 towards new homes with a purchase price up to $750,000. The grant is administered by Queensland Revenue Office; confirm current eligibility before signing a contract — state rules and amounts can change.
What council does Bohle Plains belong to?
Bohle Plains sits within the Townsville local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Bohle Plains?
The average residential rates bill through Townsville is $1,810 a year (2025). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Bohle Plains?
Across Townsville, 1,096 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's down 22.3% on the same period a year earlier. These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.
Which federal electorate is Bohle Plains in?
Bohle Plains sits within the federal Division of Herbert, currently held by Phillip Thompson (Liberal National Party of Queensland).
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Data freshness
- Census · 2021
- Median sale prices · Oct 2026
- For-sale & rental market · Oct 2026
- Council rates · FY 2025–26
- Building approvals · Aug 2026
- Schools · 2025
- Public transport · Oct 2026
- NBN connectivity · Dec 2025
- Crime · 2025
- Road crashes · 2020–2024
- Air quality · 2025
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- State electorate · 2024
- Amenities · Sep 2026
- Health & emergency facilities · Sep 2026
- Industrial emissions (NPI) · 2024/2025
- Coastal erosion · 1988–2025
- Aircraft noise · 2024
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