Located in Queensland, Pittsworth sits 172 km from Brisbane CBD, around 2 hours 15 minutes by car. The town has 3,300 residents, a median age of 43, and a median household income of $67,080 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the bottom 20% nationally. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $275 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,300. Pittsworth is characterised by no recorded bushfire exposure. Of 3 schools within the town boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is low.
Is Pittsworth a good town?
Pittsworth scores a B (50/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — weaker on transit and community.
Mixed results
3 schools · 1 above peer schools
Car-dependent
Walkability 0/100 · 171.8 km · 133 min drive to Brisbane
Median available
Median $694K
Moderate crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 44/100
Highly disadvantaged
SEIFA decile 2/10 · median age 43 · 3,300 residents
Liveability Rating
50 / 100 · Ranked #513 in QLDEach bar is Pittsworth'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 Pittsworth?
Local knowledge beats any dataset. Rate it and see what other residents think.
Our score
50 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
Residents say
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Median House Price
Public listings dataPittsworth's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $694,000, roughly 31% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$693,500
Based on 84 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 38 days — median across 32 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 5 sales $570K
- 3 bed 43 sales $650K
- 4 bed 27 sales $792K
Land
$390,000
Based on only 9 sales — small sample, take as indicative.
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Pittsworth are currently listed at around $762,000 on average. Based on 20 houses listed in the past six months.
$762K
20 houses listed in the last 6 months.
20 of the suburb's 1,166 dwellings (1.7%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Pittsworth rent for around $690 a week on average, based on 18 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$690/wk
18 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
19 rentals advertised against an estimated 339 rented homes (5.6%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- All rentals
- $595/wk
- 37 bonds
- +63% 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.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$690/week ($36,000 a year) on a $762,000 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 Pittsworth safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Pittsworth sits in the moderate band, with 30 incidents recorded in 2025 — up roughly 43% on the prior year.
30 offences
42.9% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2020–202410 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 town carries people passing through; this is not a measure of risk to residents. Roads are listed with 3 or more serious crashes.
Schools
Three schools serve Pittsworth, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Pittsworth State High School leads the pack.
- • 1,004 students across 3 schools (avg 335)
- • Sectors: 2 Government, 1 Catholic
- • ICSEA 955-1013, median 966 (below the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Pittsworth State High School (506 students)
Primary
Secondary
Walkability
Pittsworth is very car-dependent on foot — at 0/100, nearly all errands require a car. Within the town there are 2 supermarkets, 8 parks and 5 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
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.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Pittsworth.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 33%
- Premises covered
- 1,558
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
Toowoomba: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this town alone — this town's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 9 small areas inside this town and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 4 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this town rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Pittsworth is home to about 3,300 residents, with a median age of 43, a touch above the national 38. Median household income runs at $67,000 a year, with unemployment at 3.5%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
3,300
Median Age
43
Median Household Income
$67,080/yr
Census Median Rent
$275/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,300/mo
Avg Household Size
2.5
Median Personal Income
$33,852/yr
Unemployment Rate
3.5%
Unoccupied Dwellings
10.9%
Total Dwellings
1,166
Owner-Occupier Rate
70.9%
Houses
91.7%
Rental Stress
21.3%
Mortgage Stress
23.3%
Work From Home
6.1%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 84.0%
- English Spoken at Home
- 88.7%
- Employment Rate
- 53.1%
- Completed Year 12
- 29.5%
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.
41 residents (1.2%) 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.
2.8% of residents (86) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Brisbane (67).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 3,077 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
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $1,618 a year through Toowoomba based on 2025 figures.
Building Approvals: Toowoomba
In the year to August 2026, 1,513 new dwellings were approved across Toowoomba. That mix is 1,098 houses and 415 units. Approvals are down 24.6% on the same period a year earlier.
New Homes Planned
New homes planned in this town: 489 to 1,555 homes
- Within 2 years 6 to 20 homes
- No timeframe set 483 to 1,535 homes
Land the Queensland Government's residential land supply study identifies for future housing (54 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 Western Wakka Wakka People.
Under Queensland's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 the Aboriginal party for an area follows native title. No native title claim is currently registered here, so the last registered claimant remains the Aboriginal party.
Climate & Setting
from Pittsworth, 1.7 kmModerate rainfall.
- Elevation
- 498 m
- above sea level, at the town centre
- Near high-voltage lines
- 0.3% of addresses
- 6 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 691 mm
- 61 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- —
- Winter min (Jul)
- —
Elevation is the ground at the town 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- 2.3 km
- 3.4 km
EV adoption
In postcode 4356, 4 of 5,029 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 1.7% (87 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 1.8%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 4356, 1,212 rooftop-solar systems totalling 9.0 MW have been installed since 2001, against 1,954 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 69 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 4356.
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 $693,500 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 Garth Hamilton Liberal National Party of Queensland
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Garth Hamilton | 36.6% | 63.4% | +0.8 |
| 2022 | Garth Hamilton | 35.8% | 64.2% | -6.3 |
| 2019 | John Mcveigh | 29.5% | 70.5% | +5.2 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact town's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Pat Weir Liberal National Party of Queensland
Next state election: 28 October 2028.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Pat Weir LNP | 73.6% |
| 2020 | Pat Weir LNP | 69.2% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2017, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this town's voters. Results: Electoral Commission of Queensland.
Looking at a specific address in Pittsworth?
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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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Common questions about Pittsworth
Is Pittsworth a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Pittsworth is moderate (44/100, ranked against other QLD suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Pittsworth?
Pittsworth has no recorded bushfire history. These are town-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Pittsworth a good place to live?
Pittsworth has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of B (50/100), 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 Pittsworth?
Pittsworth, QLD had a population of 3,300 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Pittsworth, QLD?
The postcode for Pittsworth, QLD is 4356.
How far is Pittsworth from Brisbane?
Pittsworth is 172 km from Brisbane CBD by road, about 133 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Pittsworth?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Pittsworth was $67,080 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 Pittsworth?
The median advertised rent in Pittsworth is $690 a week for houses (18 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Pittsworth?
The median age of residents in Pittsworth was 43 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Pittsworth?
There are 3 schools inside the Pittsworth boundary: 1 above, 1 at, and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
What is the weather like in Pittsworth?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Pittsworth, Pittsworth (1.7 km away), 691 mm of rain a year over 61 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Pittsworth?
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 Pittsworth belong to?
Pittsworth sits within the Toowoomba local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Pittsworth?
The average residential rates bill through Toowoomba is $1,618 a year (2025). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Pittsworth?
Across Toowoomba, 1,513 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's down 24.6% 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 Pittsworth in?
Pittsworth sits within the federal Division of Groom, currently held by Garth Hamilton (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
- NBN connectivity · Dec 2025
- Crime · 2025
- Road crashes · 2020–2024
- 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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