Park Ridge QLD 4125
Park Ridge sits 36 km from Brisbane CBD in Queensland, around 33 minutes by car. Census data records 8,455 residents with a median age of 30 and a median household income of $73,736 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the lower-middle tier nationally. Population more than tripled from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $370 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,733. The area shows high crime risk and no recorded bushfire exposure. Of 5 schools within the suburb boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is low.
Is Park Ridge a good suburb?
Park Ridge scores a C (40/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — weaker on safety.
Mixed results
5 schools · 1 above peer schools
Some car dependence
Walkability 18/100 · 35.7 km · 33 min drive to Brisbane
Median available
Median $906K
High crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 90/100
Below-average income
SEIFA decile 3/10 · median age 30 · 8,455 residents
Liveability Rating
40 / 100 · Ranked #758 in QLDEach bar is Park Ridge's rank among QLD suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
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 Park Ridge?
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Our score
40 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataPark Ridge's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $906,000, roughly 14% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$905,750
5% above its 8 neighbours (median $865,000)
Based on 222 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 24 days — median across 160 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 12 sales $773K
- 4 bed 158 sales $884K
- 5 bed 42 sales $1.1M
Land
$921,000
Based on 16 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 16 days — median across 12 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Park Ridge are currently listed at around $900,000 on average. Based on 44 houses listed in the past six months.
$900K
44 houses listed in the last 6 months.
44 of the suburb's 2,989 dwellings (1.5%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Park Ridge rent for around $700 a week on average, based on 264 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
Houses
$700/wk
4% above its 7 neighbours (median $675/wk)
264 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Units
$440/wk
5 units advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
269 rentals advertised against an estimated 1,557 rented homes (17.3%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- 3-bed houses
- $590/wk
- 27 bonds
- +53% since 2021
- 2-bed units
- $480/wk
- 20 bonds
- +53% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies. Change since 2021 compares the median of the first four quarters with the last four. Asking rents above come from advertised listings.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025116 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 26% of its income on the median rent in postcode 4125.
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$700/week ($36,000 a year) on a $900,000 median
Not enough unit sales and rentals in the window to calculate a yield.
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 Park Ridge safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Park Ridge sits in the high band, with 168 incidents recorded in 2025 — down roughly 23% on the prior year.
168 offences
23.3% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2020–202486 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 1 of them fatal
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
Five schools serve Park Ridge, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. St Philomena School leads the pack.
- • 4,130 students across 5 schools (avg 826)
- • Sectors: 3 Government, 2 Independent
- • ICSEA 972-1082, median 993 (around the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Park Ridge State High School (1,696 students)
Primary
Secondary
Combined
Walkability
Park Ridge is very car-dependent on foot — at 18/100, nearly all errands require a car.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Park Ridge.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 46.8 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 28.2 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 20.0 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 16.4 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 Park Ridge.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 82%
- Premises covered
- 5,174
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
Logan: 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 16 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 5 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Park Ridge is home to about 8,500 residents, and skews young, with a median age of 30 against the national 38. Median household income runs at $74,000 a year, with unemployment at 6.6%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
8,455
Median Age
30
Median Household Income
$73,736/yr
Census Median Rent
$370/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,733/mo
Avg Household Size
2.6
Median Personal Income
$39,728/yr
Unemployment Rate
6.6%
Unoccupied Dwellings
6.9%
Total Dwellings
2,989
Owner-Occupier Rate
47.9%
Houses
81.8%
Rental Stress
26.1%
Mortgage Stress
28.2%
Work From Home
8.6%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 56.4%
- English Spoken at Home
- 65.6%
- Employment Rate
- 56.3%
- Completed Year 12
- 42.3%
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.
626 residents (7.4%) 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.
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 7,620 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
6% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (225 of 3,708).
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 1,977 people work here; 3,708 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.5 jobs per working resident. At least 43% 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 $1,681 a year through Logan based on 2025 figures.
Building Approvals: Logan
In the year to August 2026, 4,950 new dwellings were approved across Logan. That mix is 3,603 houses and 1,347 units. Approvals are down 7.7% on the same period a year earlier.
New Homes Planned
New homes planned in this suburb: 3,641 to 9,440 homes
- Within 2 years 353 to 1,105 homes
- In 2 to 5 years 1,019 to 2,530 homes
- In 5 to 10 years 757 to 1,685 homes
- In 10 years or more 1,512 to 4,120 homes
Land the Queensland Government's residential land supply study identifies for future housing (206 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 Danggan Balun (Five Rivers) 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
CLEANPM2.5 averaged 4.9 µg/m³ in 2025 — below the WHO 2021 annual guideline (5 µg/m³).
PM10 averaged 13.1 µg/m³ · NO₂ averaged 0.27 pphm. Days over the limit in 2025: PM10 0 · NO₂ 0 · ozone 0.
From the North Maclean (South East Queensland) monitoring station, 7.9 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Archerfield Airport, 15.9 kmHigh rainfall — warm summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 62 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 23.1 km
- Near high-voltage lines
- 0.4% of addresses
- 29 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 1,032 mm
- 84 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 30.5°C
- 6 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 8.9°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
2 facilities within 5 km- 2.8 kmMilk and Cream ProcessingTop reported: Oxides of Nitrogen · Carbon monoxide · Particulate Matter ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5)
- 3.6 kmOther Electricity GenerationTop reported: Carbon monoxide · Oxides of Nitrogen · Total Volatile Organic Compounds
EV adoption
In postcode 4125, 122 of 13,762 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 3.7% (507 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 4.6%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 4125, 3,790 rooftop-solar systems totalling 26.2 MW have been installed since 2001, against 4,614 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 376 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
3 mortgage brokers are registered in this suburb, 4 across postcode 4125.
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 $905,750 this is $155,750 above 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 2026-10-26 — 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 Rowan Holzberger Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rowan Holzberger | 51.8% | 48.2% | +6.0 |
| 2022 | Bert Van Manen | 45.8% | 54.2% | -4.4 |
| 2019 | Bert Van Manen | 41.4% | 58.6% | +8.0 |
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 Linus Power Australian Labor Party (State of Queensland)
Next state election: 28 October 2028.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Linus Power ALP | 54.3% |
| 2020 | Linus Power ALP | 63.4% |
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
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- #8 in Brisbane suburbs where the most Punjabi is spoken at home
- #8 in Brisbane suburbs with the largest Sikh community
- #12 in Brisbane suburbs with the most rooftop solar
- #13 in Where the Pakistani community lives in Brisbane
- #15 in Where the Samoan community lives in Brisbane
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Common questions about Park Ridge
Is Park Ridge a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Park Ridge is high (90/100, ranked against other QLD suburbs on offences per resident). Offences against shops, venues and visitors are divided by the people who live here, so suburbs with large daytime or visitor populations rank higher than living there may feel.
What natural hazards affect Park Ridge?
Park Ridge has no recorded bushfire history. These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Park Ridge a good place to live?
Park Ridge has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (40/100), 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 Park Ridge?
Park Ridge, QLD had a population of 8,455 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Park Ridge, QLD?
The postcode for Park Ridge, QLD is 4125.
How far is Park Ridge from Brisbane?
Park Ridge is 36 km from Brisbane CBD by road, about 33 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Park Ridge?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Park Ridge was $73,736 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 Park Ridge?
The median advertised rent in Park Ridge is $700 a week for houses (264 listings) and $440 a week for units (5 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Park Ridge?
The median age of residents in Park Ridge was 30 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Park Ridge?
There are 5 schools inside the Park Ridge boundary: 1 above, 2 at, and 2 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Park Ridge walkable?
Park Ridge scores 18/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it very car-dependent. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
What is the air quality in Park Ridge?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Park Ridge (North Maclean (South East Queensland)) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 4.9 µg/m³ and PM10 of 13.1 µg/m³. That puts Park Ridge below the WHO annual guideline of 5 µg/m³.
What is the weather like in Park Ridge?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Park Ridge, Archerfield Airport (15.9 km away), summer days average 30.5°C, winter nights 8.9°C, 1,032 mm of rain a year over 84 rainy days, and 6 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Park Ridge?
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 Park Ridge belong to?
Park Ridge sits within the Logan local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Park Ridge?
The average residential rates bill through Logan is $1,681 a year (2025). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Park Ridge?
Across Logan, 4,950 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's down 7.7% 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 Park Ridge in?
Park Ridge sits within the federal Division of Forde, currently held by Rowan Holzberger (Australian Labor Party).
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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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