Median priceⓘLast 12 months
594kk
↑ +20.5% YoY
Bowen's busiest market is house sales, with 274 sales (down 6.2%) at around $594K (up 20.5%), taking about 39 days to sell (up a lot from 29 days last year), with prices growing faster than most house markets nationally, with 3-bedroom making up around 36%.
House rentals come a distant second, with 118 leases (up 3.5%) at $595 a week (up 7.2%), renting out in about 15 days (up from 13 days last year), one of the country's most in-demand house rental markets, around half are 3-bedroom. Rounding it out, 77 unit rentals at $455 a week. 47 unit sales at around $328.5K (less sought-after than most unit markets).
Who lives hereA below-average-income, renter-heavy, mixed-age suburb, with a strong trades and blue-collar workforce.
House covers houses, duplexes, semi-detached and terraces; Unit covers apartments, units, townhouses and villas.
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.
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
9.7% report Irish ancestry, but only 0.2% were born in Ireland — the gap is the Australian-born and diaspora Irish community, invisible in birthplace alone.
A predominantly Australian-born community.
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.
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.
Incomes, employment, and the occupation mix of the people who live here.
A typical household pulls in about 1.9× 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.
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
5 schools inside Bowen, plus the closest options around it. 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.
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.
How settled or transient the community is — and where newcomers came from.
Headline price, rent, yield and time on market for Bowen — choose a property type and size below.
Every segment this suburb tracks — sales and rentals side by side, ranked by total activity over the last twelve months.
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.
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.
Two questions on one chart — how strong demand is right now, and which way it's heading year-on-year.
Eight diagnostic views cutting the data a different way each time — Bowen in blue, peers in colour.
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.
Out of every property transaction in this suburb, what share are sales versus leases — each point a rolling twelve-month window.
Each tape traces one metric across sixty months for the selected segment — every point a trailing twelve-month figure, matching the headline KPIs above.
QLD markets whose Houses · Total segment behaves most like Bowen's on the buy side — ranked by a like-for-like blend of price, yield, days on market, ownership cost and cycle phase.
Comparable sales markets to Bowen include Bundaberg East (QLD 4670), Millbank (QLD 4670), Kingaroy (QLD 4610), Warwick (QLD 4370), Mareeba (QLD 4880), Rosslea (QLD 4812), Svensson Heights (QLD 4670) and Bundaberg West (QLD 4670). Each link opens that suburb's full market report.
23 data-driven answers about Bowen's property market — every one computed from the metrics above.
The median house price in Bowen, QLD 4805 is $594k as of June 2026, based on 274 sales recorded over the past 12 months. Houses there have moved +20.5% 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.
The median unit price in Bowen, QLD 4805 is $329k as of June 2026, based on 47 sales over the past 12 months. Units have moved −1.6% year-on-year and currently trade at roughly 55% of the median house price.
The median weekly house rent in Bowen is $595 as of June 2026, drawn from 118 leases over the past 12 months. Units rent for around $455 per week. House rents have moved +7.2% year-on-year. Current vacancy pressure is shown in the supply section above.
Gross rental yield in Bowen is 5.20% for houses and 7.00% for units as of June 2026, compared with the QLD unit median of 4.35%. Gross yield is annual rent divided by purchase price — it doesn't account for ownership costs like council rates, strata, maintenance or vacancy.
As of June 2026, Bowen medians by bedroom count:
| Property | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | — | $474k | $535k | $650k | $594k |
| Units | $256k | $323k | $442k | — | $329k |
Figures cover only segments with enough recent transactions to be statistically meaningful; sparse segments are excluded.
At the median Bowen unit ($329k purchase, $455/week rent), weekly mortgage repayments sit at roughly $363 — about $92 less 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.
Bowen's property market trends to June 2026: house prices rose +20.5% year-on-year and units −1.6%; weekly house rents moved +7.2%; homes now sell in a median 39 days — slower than a year ago by 10; sales supply sits at 2.9 months (balanced). Read together — price, rent, selling speed and supply — they show which way the Bowen market is leaning. The 5-year tape and demand cycle charts above plot the full trajectory.
As of June 2026 in Bowen, house prices rose +20.5% over the year, gross rental yield is 5.20% against a QLD median of 3.71%, houses take a median 39 days to sell, sales supply is 2.9 months (balanced). 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.
Houses in Bowen sell in a median 39 days on market as of June 2026, with units clearing slightly slower at 52 days. Days on market have lengthened by 10 days versus a year ago. Faster clearance typically coincides with stronger buyer demand and lower supply.
Bowen's sales market sits at 2.9 months of supply for houses as of June 2026 — classified as Balanced against the Australian distribution. Under 1.7 months is Severe (extreme shortage); over 4.5 months is Loose. The rental side is tighter still at 0.8 months of supply.
House prices in Bowen moved +20.5% over the 12 months to June 2026, while units moved −1.6%. The 5-year tape above plots the full monthly trajectory — showing where the market changed character rather than just crossing round numbers.
Bowen's house rental market sits at 0.8 months of supply as of June 2026 — classified as Severe (extreme shortage), with 118 houses leased over the past 12 months. Units sit at 1.1 months. Tighter supply typically corresponds to faster letting and upward pressure on rents.
Bowen's house market is currently in the 'softer_weakening' phase as of June 2026 — combining below-median sales velocity nationally with year-on-year loosening in days on market. The demand cycle chart above plots all eight segments on the same demand-versus-direction axes.
Bowen's median house price ($594k) is 38% below the QLD median ($960k) as of June 2026. On selling speed, houses clear in 39 days vs 26 days state median. On gross yield, Bowen sits at 5.20% vs 3.71% state median.
Bowen's most-similar nearby market is Bundaberg East (680.9 km away) with a median house price of $586k — about 1% 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.
The most-transacted segment in Bowen over the 12 months to June 2026 is 3 bed houses with 100 sales. 4 bed houses come second at 95 sales. The 'Most popular' panel above breaks down the top segments with weekly mortgage, rent and ownership-cost detail.
Bowen recorded 274 house sales and 47 unit sales over the 12 months to June 2026 — a combined 321 transactions. On the rental side, 118 houses and 77 units were leased. Segments with statistically thin samples are excluded from displayed figures.
Bowen, QLD 4805 is home to 11,205 residents (ABS Census 2021). The median resident age is 42, and the average household holds 2.4 people. The "Who lives here" section above breaks the community down by age, life stage and tenure.
The median household in Bowen earns $1k per week — roughly $70k a year (ABS Census 2021). Median personal income runs $710/week. Income, rent-to-income and mortgage-to-income context sits in the "Who lives here" section above.
Bowen is mostly owner-occupied: about 60% of households are owner-occupiers and 38% rent (ABS Census 2021). Of owners, 34% own outright and 26% are paying off a mortgage.
Bowen has 5 schools within reach, 5 of them inside the suburb itself — including Merinda State School, St Mary's Catholic School, Bowen State School. The Schools section above maps each one with sector, year range, enrolment, Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings and ICSEA (ACARA).
Bowen, QLD 4805 has a population of 11,205, a median age of 42, a median household income around $1k/week, 38% of households renting (ABS Census 2021). There are 5 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.
This Bowen market data was last updated 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.
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