Barlows Hill, QLD 4703
Barlows Hill property market
House sales narrowly top Barlows Hill, with 27 sales at around $986.5k (up) as of July 2026, taking about 19 days to sell (down from 25 days last year), with 3-bedroom and 4-bedroom roughly tied at around 45% each.
House rentals follow, with 17 leases at $750 a week, renting out in about 22 days, less sought-after than most house rental markets. Followed by 2 unit sales at around $875k and 1 unit rentals at $705 a week.
Who lives hereAn above-average-income, mostly owner-occupied, older-leaning suburb.
House covers houses, duplexes, semi-detached and terraces; Unit covers apartments, units, townhouses and villas.
Barlows Hill demographics & population
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) 2021 · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Who lives in Barlows Hill?
The age structure, household make-up, and cultural fabric of the people who call this suburb home.
Share of all residents by 5-year band · hover a band for the count + split
A strongly multicultural community with deep migrant heritage.
2020–21 understated — COVID border closures.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
Housing & affordability in Barlows Hill
What it costs to live here, who owns versus rents, and the shape of the housing stock.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
Income & employment in Barlows Hill
Incomes, employment, and the occupation mix of the people who live here.
A typical household pulls in about 2.6× the typical individual — a multi-earner area.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
Getting around Barlows Hill
How people get to work, and how car-dependent the suburb is — the clearest tell of inner-urban versus outer-suburban living.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
Education · ACARA My School 2025
Schools in and around Barlows Hill
No school inside Barlows Hill itself — the closest options around it are shown. Families can choose from 7 primary schools in Barlows Hill and its surrounds, and 3 high schools covering the secondary years. Distances are straight-line from the suburb centre and are not enrolment catchments — always confirm zones with the school.
ICSEA is ACARA’s official measure of a school’s socio-educational advantage — based mainly on parents’ education and occupation, plus the school’s location and student mix.
- Nearby · within 5 km · 10Order by
- 1St Benedict's Catholic Primary SchoolCatholic · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Yeppoon · 3.2 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students376Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 2St Brendan's CollegeCatholic · Secondary · Co-ed · Years 7-12 · Yeppoon · 3.2 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students376Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 3Yeppoon State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Yeppoon · 3.2 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students376Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 4St Ursula's CollegeCatholic · Secondary · Co-ed · Years 7-12 · Yeppoon · 3.2 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students376Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 5Yeppoon State High SchoolGovernment · Secondary · Co-ed · Years 7-12 · Yeppoon · 3.2 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students376Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 6Farnborough State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Farnborough · 3.2 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students376Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 7Taranganba State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Taranganba · 3.2 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students376Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 8Sacred Heart Catholic Primary SchoolCatholic · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Yeppoon · 3.2 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students376Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 9Cawarral State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Cawarral · 3.2 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students376Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 10Emu Park State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Emu Park · 3.2 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students376Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
Why are some State Rank and star ratings blank? Schools can choose not to publish their results. In practice, schools that score well above their state average almost always publish theirs — so a blank rating more often reflects a school opting out than a top result being hidden. Academic results also tend to rise with ICSEA Rank, so higher-ICSEA schools more often carry a strong State Rank as well.
School profile and ICSEA data sourced from ACARA — © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (data year 2025) · State Rank & star columns are Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings from publicly available school results · Distances are straight-line from the suburb centre, not catchments.
Turnover
How settled or transient the community is — and where newcomers came from.
Barlows Hill median house price & rent
Headline price, rent, yield and time on market for Barlows Hill — choose a property type and size below.
House & unit prices by bedroom
Every segment this suburb tracks — sales and rentals side by side, ranked by total activity over the last twelve months.
Barlows Hill property growth
Where each segment sits against its peers in the chosen geography — past the midline means it's outperforming the rest.
Market demandHow fast this market is moving — a velocity index built from trailing-year transaction volume and median days on market. Strong volume lifts the score; days on market drags it down, with the drag growing sharply once listings start lingering. Ranked against peers in the chosen geography.
Houses
Units
Buying vs renting in Barlows Hill
What it costs each week to own a property versus renting the same one — positive means buying carries the premium, negative means rent covers the mortgage.
How strong is demand, and which way is it heading?
Two questions on one chart — how strong demand is right now, and which way it's heading year-on-year.
Sales market velocity
Barlows Hill against the neighbourhood
Eight diagnostic views cutting the data a different way each time — Barlows Hill in blue, peers in colour.
How fast — and is it getting faster?
Housing supply & months of stock
How long current listings would take to clear at the recent rate of sales or leases. Critical shortage and Oversupply only fire at the genuine tails of the national distribution — sales tip in under 0.7 months, rentals far faster, under 0.3.
Sales market
| Segment | Band | Months of supply left | YoYYoY change12-month change in months of supply. Down means stock is tightening (fewer months than a year ago); up means stock is loosening. | ListedListedActive listings in this segment right now, derived from months of supply multiplied by the recent transaction rate. | SoldSold (last year)Total sold transactions completed in this segment over the last 12 months. | Per monthPer monthAverage monthly absorption — how many properties are sold each month in this segment, over the last 12 months. |
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Rental market
| Segment | Band | Months of supply left | YoYYoY change12-month change in months of supply. Down means stock is tightening (fewer months than a year ago); up means stock is loosening. | ListedListedActive listings in this segment right now, derived from months of supply multiplied by the recent transaction rate. | LeasedLeased (last year)Total leased transactions completed in this segment over the last 12 months. | Per monthPer monthAverage monthly absorption — how many properties are leased each month in this segment, over the last 12 months. |
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Who's transacting — buyers or tenants?
Out of every property transaction in this suburb, what share are sales versus leases — each point a rolling twelve-month window.
Barlows Hill — Units & Houses, all bedrooms
Barlows Hill median house price & rent history
Each tape traces one metric across sixty months for the selected segment — every point a trailing twelve-month figure, matching the headline KPIs above.
Five-year summaryAs of Jun 2026, the median house sale price in Barlows Hill rose from $409k (Jul 2021) to $783k (Jun 2026) — +91.4% growth over five years — peaking at $835k between Jan 2025 and Dec 2025. Median house rent went from $294/wk to $579/wk (+96.9%) over the same period.
Suburbs near Barlows Hill: prices compared
The nearest suburbs to Barlows Hill, ranked by distance — each lined up against Barlows Hill on the same measures, so the differences jump out at a glance.
Suburbs like Barlows Hill
Suburbs anywhere in QLD that behave like Barlows Hill — matched on price, growth, selling speed and demand, not on distance. A shortlist of markets that move the same way — including ones far away you'd never think to compare. (Want the suburbs right next door instead? See Nearby markets above.)
Barlows Hill vs Cooee Bay: the closest sales-market match trades at a median of $610k against Barlows Hill's $799k — about 24% lower, with homes selling in 15 days versus 12 days here.
Comparable sales markets to Barlows Hill: Cooee Bay property market, Meadowbrook average house price, D'Aguilar property growth, Heritage Park property market and Berrinba property growth.
Barlows Hill's closest rental-market twins: Heritage Park property market, D'Aguilar property growth, Cooee Bay property market, Meadowbrook property prices and Berrinba property growth. Each link opens that suburb's full market report.
Frequently asked · Barlows Hill
26 data-driven answers about Barlows Hill's property market — every one computed from the metrics above.
What things cost
Prices, rent, yield, ownership costWhat is the median house price in Barlows Hill?
#The median house price in Barlows Hill, QLD 4703 is $799k as of June 2026, based on 4 sales over the past 12 months. Houses there have moved +50.0% year-on-year. Prices vary by bedroom count, from compact two-bedroom homes to larger four-bedroom houses. See the bedroom-level breakdown below for 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom medians.
What is the median unit price in Barlows Hill?
#The median unit price in Barlows Hill, QLD 4703 is $799k as of June 2026, based on 4 sales over the past 12 months. Units currently trade at roughly 100% of the median house price.
How much does it cost to rent in Barlows Hill?
#The median weekly house rent in Barlows Hill is $535 as of June 2026, drawn from 3 leases over the past 12 months. Units rent for around $535 per week. House rents have moved +50.0% year-on-year. Current vacancy pressure is shown in the supply section above.
How much is rent for a 3 bedroom house in Barlows Hill?
#A 3 bedroom house in Barlows Hill rents for a median $535 per week as of June 2026, drawn from 3 leases over the past 12 months. Across other house sizes: 4-bedroom $535/week. Unit rents: 3-bedroom $535/week. Figures cover only segments with enough recent leases to be statistically meaningful; sparse segments are excluded. The segment breakdown covers rent, yield and days on market for every property type and bedroom count.
What is the gross rental yield in Barlows Hill?
#Gross rental yield in Barlows Hill is 2.49% for houses and 2.49% for units as of June 2026, compared with the QLD unit median of 2.53%. Gross yield is annual rent divided by purchase price — it doesn't account for ownership costs like council rates, strata, maintenance or vacancy.
How much is a 3 bedroom house in Barlows Hill?
#As of June 2026, Barlows Hill medians by bedroom count:
| Property | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | Total |
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| Houses | — | — | $799k | $799k | $799k |
| Units | — | — | $799k | — | $799k |
Figures cover only segments with enough recent transactions to be statistically meaningful; sparse segments are excluded.
What does it cost to own versus rent at the Barlows Hill median?
#At the median Barlows Hill house ($799k purchase, $535/week rent), weekly mortgage repayments sit at roughly $764 — about $229 more per week than renting. That gap is the ownership premium. Figures assume 80% LVR, a 6.0% interest rate and a 30-year principal-and-interest loan.
How the market is moving
Speed, supply, growth, cycle phaseWhat are Barlows Hill's property market trends?
#Barlows Hill's property market trends to June 2026: house prices rose +50.0% year-on-year; weekly house rents moved +50.0%; homes now sell in a median 12 days — faster than a year ago by 7; sales supply sits at 1.6 months (severe). Read together — price, rent, selling speed and supply — they show which way the Barlows Hill market is leaning. The 5-year tape and demand cycle charts above plot the full trajectory.
What does the data say about Barlows Hill as an investment?
#As of June 2026 in Barlows Hill, house prices rose +50.0% over the year, gross rental yield is 2.49% against a QLD median of 3.05%, houses take a median 12 days to sell, sales supply is 1.6 months (severe). Capital growth, rental yield, selling speed and supply are the signals investors weigh — but these figures describe the market, not a recommendation. This is data, not financial advice; always do your own research and consider a licensed adviser.
How quickly do houses sell in Barlows Hill?
#Houses in Barlows Hill sell in a median 12 days on market as of June 2026. Days on market have tightened by 7 days versus a year ago. Faster clearance typically coincides with stronger buyer demand and lower supply.
Is Barlows Hill a tight or loose property market right now?
#Barlows Hill's sales market sits at 1.6 months of supply for houses as of June 2026 — classified as Severe (extreme shortage) against the Australian distribution. Under 1.7 months is Severe (extreme shortage); over 4.5 months is Loose. The rental side is looser at 2.6 months of supply.
Have property prices in Barlows Hill gone up or down?
#House prices in Barlows Hill moved +50.0% over the 12 months to June 2026. The 5-year tape above plots the full monthly trajectory — showing where the market changed character rather than just crossing round numbers.
How active is the rental market in Barlows Hill?
#Barlows Hill's house rental market sits at 2.6 months of supply as of June 2026 — classified as Saturated (extreme oversupply), with 5 houses leased over the past 12 months. Units sit at 1.3 months. Tighter supply typically corresponds to faster letting and upward pressure on rents.
Where is Barlows Hill in its property market cycle?
#Barlows Hill's house market is currently in the 'in_demand_growing' phase as of June 2026 — combining above-median sales velocity nationally with year-on-year tightening in days on market. The demand cycle chart above plots all eight segments on the same demand-versus-direction axes.
How it compares
Vs state, vs nearby, vs popularHow does Barlows Hill compare to other QLD suburbs?
#Barlows Hill's median house price ($799k) is 7% above the QLD median ($745k) as of June 2026. On selling speed, houses clear in 12 days vs 17 days state median. On gross yield, Barlows Hill sits at 2.49% vs 3.05% state median.
How does Barlows Hill compare to neighbouring suburbs?
#Barlows Hill's most-similar nearby market is Cooee Bay (3.5 km away) with a median house price of $610k — about 24% cheaper. The Nearby and Similar markets sections above rank every peer within radius and by composite similarity across price, days on market, yield, ownership cost and cycle phase.
What's the most popular property type in Barlows Hill?
#The most-transacted segment in Barlows Hill over the 12 months to June 2026 is 2 bed houses with 7 sales. 3 bed houses come second at 7 sales. The buying-versus-renting section above breaks down the top segments with weekly mortgage, rent and ownership-cost detail.
How many properties were sold and leased in Barlows Hill last year?
#Barlows Hill recorded 7 house sales and 7 unit sales over the 12 months to June 2026 — a combined 14 transactions. On the rental side, 5 houses and 5 units were leased. Segments with statistically thin samples are excluded from displayed figures.
About the area
Population, income, who lives here, schoolsWhat postcode is Barlows Hill in?
#Barlows Hill is in postcode 4703, in the Capricorn Region region of QLD. Addresses there are written as Barlows Hill, QLD 4703.
What is the population of Barlows Hill?
#Barlows Hill, QLD 4703 is home to 476 residents (ABS Census 2021). The median resident age is 26, and the average household holds 1.7 people. The "Who lives here" section above breaks the community down by age, life stage and tenure.
What is the median household income in Barlows Hill?
#The median household in Barlows Hill earns $2k per week — roughly $92k a year (ABS Census 2021). Median personal income runs $682/week. Income, rent-to-income and mortgage-to-income context sits in the "Who lives here" section above.
What is the unemployment rate in Barlows Hill?
#The unemployment rate in Barlows Hill is 50.0% (ABS Census 2021). That sits right around the median for Australian suburbs. The rate counts people who are working or actively looking for work — not a share of all residents. Workforce participation sits at 50%. The local economy section above covers incomes, employment status and the occupation mix.
Do people own or rent in Barlows Hill?
#Barlows Hill is mostly owner-occupied: about 100% of households are owner-occupiers and 50% rent (ABS Census 2021). Of owners, 50% own outright and 50% are paying off a mortgage.
What schools are near Barlows Hill?
#Barlows Hill has 10 schools within reach — including St Benedict's Catholic Primary School, St Brendan's College, Yeppoon State School. The Schools section above maps each one with sector, year range, enrolment, Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings and ICSEA (ACARA).
Is Barlows Hill a good place to live?
#Barlows Hill, QLD 4703 has a population of 476, a median age of 26, a median household income around $2k/week, 50% of households renting (ABS Census 2021). There are 10 schools within reach. Whether it's the right fit depends on your priorities — these figures describe the community, housing mix and amenity rather than offer a verdict.
About this data
Methodology and update cadenceWhen was this Barlows Hill market data last updated?
#This Barlows Hill market data was last updated July 2026, covering the 12 months to June 2026. Figures are computed monthly from 12-month rolling windows of recorded sales and leases, with five years of monthly history behind the trend charts. Methodology, glossary and data sources are linked in the footer.