Mountain Creek, QLD 4557
Mountain Creek property market
Mountain Creek's busiest market is house rentals, but only just, with 178 leases (down 8.7%) at $845 a week (up 3.7%) as of July 2026, renting out in about 14 days, one of the country's most in-demand house rental markets, with 4-bedroom homes making up around 65%.
House sales are close behind, with 170 sales (down 4.5%) at around $1.251M (up 15.7%), taking about 28 days to sell (up from 23 days last year), with 4-bedroom the most common at around two-thirds. Then come 92 unit rentals at $700 a week (up 12%), with rents growing faster than most unit rental markets nationally. 59 unit sales at around $809k (more sought-after than most unit markets nationally).
Who lives hereAn above-average-income, renter-heavy, family-oriented suburb — multicultural and newcomer-heavy.
House covers houses, duplexes, semi-detached and terraces; Unit covers apartments, units, townhouses and villas.
Mountain Creek 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 Mountain Creek?
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 Mountain Creek
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 Mountain Creek
Incomes, employment, and the occupation mix of the people who live here.
A typical household pulls in about 2.1× 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 Mountain Creek
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 Mountain Creek
3 schools inside Mountain Creek, plus the closest options around it. Families can choose from 2 primary schools in Mountain Creek and its surrounds, and 1 high school 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.
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- 1Mountain Creek State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students493Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 2Mountain Creek State High SchoolGovernment · Secondary · Co-ed · Years 7-12 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students493Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 3Brightwater State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students493Multilingual50%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.
Mountain Creek median house price & rent
Headline price, rent, yield and time on market for Mountain Creek — 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.
Mountain Creek 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 Mountain Creek
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
Mountain Creek against the neighbourhood
Eight diagnostic views cutting the data a different way each time — Mountain Creek 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Severe shortage | 1.1 | ▼ -2.5 | 5 | 50 | 4.2 | |
| Balanced | 2.4 | ▲ +1.3 | 10 | 50 | 4.2 | |
| Slightly loose | 3.4 | ▲ +2.4 | 14 | 50 | 4.2 | |
| Loose | 5.5 | ▲ +5.2 | 23 | 50 | 4.2 | |
| Loose | 6.6 | ▲ +5.5 | 28 | 50 | 4.2 | |
| Oversupply | 7.3 | ▲ +4.4 | 30 | 50 | 4.2 |
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slightly loose | 1.0 | ▼ -4.0 | 5 | 56 | 4.7 | |
| Loose | 1.3 | ▲ +1.0 | 6 | 56 | 4.7 | |
| Loose | 1.4 | ▲ +0.5 | 7 | 56 | 4.7 | |
| Loose | 1.5 | ▲ +0.5 | 7 | 56 | 4.7 | |
| Loose | 1.8 | ▲ +0.9 | 8 | 56 | 4.7 | |
| Oversupply | 2.0 | ▲ +1.0 | 9 | 56 | 4.7 | |
| Oversupply | 2.1 | ▲ +1.3 | 10 | 56 | 4.7 |
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.
Mountain Creek — Units & Houses, all bedrooms
Mountain Creek 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 Mountain Creek rose from $485k (Jul 2021) to $1.06M (Jun 2026) — +119.1% growth over five years. Median house rent went from $308/wk to $594/wk (+92.9%) over the same period. For units, the median sale price rose from $285k to $482k (+68.8%), with rent up from $255/wk to $566/wk (+122.0%) over the same period.
Suburbs near Mountain Creek: prices compared
The nearest suburbs to Mountain Creek, ranked by distance — each lined up against Mountain Creek on the same measures, so the differences jump out at a glance.
Suburbs like Mountain Creek
Suburbs anywhere in QLD that behave like Mountain Creek — 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.)
Mountain Creek vs Glass House Mountains: the closest sales-market match trades at a median of $1.02M against Mountain Creek's $881k — about 16% higher, with homes selling in 17 days versus 18 days here.
Comparable sales markets to Mountain Creek: Glass House Mountains median house price, Palmwoods average house price, Tewantin median house price, Buderim property market and Little Mountain property growth.
Mountain Creek's closest rental-market twins: Tewantin median house price, Little Mountain property growth, Glass House Mountains median house price, Buderim property market and Palmwoods property prices. Each link opens that suburb's full market report.
Frequently asked · Mountain Creek
26 data-driven answers about Mountain Creek's property market — every one computed from the metrics above.
What things cost
Prices, rent, yield, ownership costWhat is the median house price in Mountain Creek?
#The median house price in Mountain Creek, QLD 4557 is $881k as of June 2026, based on 32 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 Mountain Creek?
#The median unit price in Mountain Creek, QLD 4557 is $881k as of June 2026, based on 32 sales over the past 12 months. Units have moved +50.0% year-on-year and currently trade at roughly 100% of the median house price.
How much does it cost to rent in Mountain Creek?
#The median weekly house rent in Mountain Creek is $608 as of June 2026, drawn from 38 leases over the past 12 months. Units rent for around $608 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 Mountain Creek?
#A 3 bedroom house in Mountain Creek rents for a median $608 per week as of June 2026, drawn from 38 leases over the past 12 months. Across other house sizes: 2-bedroom $608/week, 4-bedroom $608/week. Unit rents: 2-bedroom $608/week, 3-bedroom $608/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 Mountain Creek?
#Gross rental yield in Mountain Creek is 3.13% for houses and 3.13% for units as of June 2026, compared with the QLD unit median of 3.47%. 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 Mountain Creek?
#As of June 2026, Mountain Creek medians by bedroom count:
| Property | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | — | — | $881k | $881k | $881k |
| Units | — | $881k | $881k | — | $881k |
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 Mountain Creek median?
#At the median Mountain Creek house ($881k purchase, $608/week rent), weekly mortgage repayments sit at roughly $764 — about $156 more per week than renting. That gap is the ownership premium. For the median unit ($881k purchase, $608/week rent), repayments run about $764 per week. 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 Mountain Creek's property market trends?
#Mountain Creek's property market trends to June 2026: house prices rose +50.0% year-on-year and units +50.0%; weekly house rents moved +50.0%; homes now sell in a median 18 days — slower than a year ago by 3; sales supply sits at 7.3 months (saturated). Read together — price, rent, selling speed and supply — they show which way the Mountain Creek market is leaning. The 5-year tape and demand cycle charts above plot the full trajectory.
What does the data say about Mountain Creek as an investment?
#As of June 2026 in Mountain Creek, house prices rose +50.0% over the year, gross rental yield is 3.13% against a QLD median of 2.03%, houses take a median 18 days to sell, sales supply is 7.3 months (saturated). 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 Mountain Creek?
#Houses in Mountain Creek sell in a median 18 days on market as of June 2026, with units clearing slightly similarly at 18 days. Days on market have lengthened by 3 days versus a year ago. Faster clearance typically coincides with stronger buyer demand and lower supply.
Is Mountain Creek a tight or loose property market right now?
#Mountain Creek's sales market sits at 7.3 months of supply for houses as of June 2026 — classified as Saturated (extreme oversupply) 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 1.8 months of supply.
Have property prices in Mountain Creek gone up or down?
#House prices in Mountain Creek moved +50.0% over the 12 months to June 2026, while units moved +50.0%. 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 Mountain Creek?
#Mountain Creek's house rental market sits at 1.8 months of supply as of June 2026 — classified as Balanced, with 56 houses leased over the past 12 months. Units sit at 2.1 months. Tighter supply typically corresponds to faster letting and upward pressure on rents.
Where is Mountain Creek in its property market cycle?
#Mountain Creek's house market is currently in the 'in_demand_easing' phase as of June 2026 — combining above-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.
How it compares
Vs state, vs nearby, vs popularHow does Mountain Creek compare to other QLD suburbs?
#Mountain Creek's median house price ($881k) is 15% above the QLD median ($768k) as of June 2026. On selling speed, houses clear in 18 days vs 22 days state median. On gross yield, Mountain Creek sits at 3.13% vs 2.03% state median.
How does Mountain Creek compare to neighbouring suburbs?
#Mountain Creek's most-similar nearby market is Glass House Mountains (21.1 km away) with a median house price of $1.02M — about 16% pricier. 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 Mountain Creek?
#The most-transacted segment in Mountain Creek over the 12 months to June 2026 is 2 bed houses with 50 sales. 3 bed houses come second at 50 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 Mountain Creek last year?
#Mountain Creek recorded 50 house sales and 50 unit sales over the 12 months to June 2026 — a combined 100 transactions. On the rental side, 56 houses and 56 units were leased. Segments with statistically thin samples are excluded from displayed figures.
About the area
Population, income, who lives here, schoolsWhat postcode is Mountain Creek in?
#Mountain Creek is in postcode 4557, in the Sunshine Coast region of QLD. Addresses there are written as Mountain Creek, QLD 4557.
What is the population of Mountain Creek?
#Mountain Creek, QLD 4557 is home to 7,440 residents (ABS Census 2021). The median resident age is 21, and the average household holds 1.4 people. The "Who lives here" section above breaks the community down by age, life stage and tenure.
What is the median household income in Mountain Creek?
#The median household in Mountain Creek earns $1k per week — roughly $67k a year (ABS Census 2021). Median personal income runs $617/week. Income, rent-to-income and mortgage-to-income context sits in the "Who lives here" section above.
What is the unemployment rate in Mountain Creek?
#The unemployment rate in Mountain Creek 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 Mountain Creek?
#Mountain Creek 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 Mountain Creek?
#Mountain Creek has 58 schools within reach, 3 of them inside the suburb itself — including Mountain Creek State School, Mountain Creek State High School, Brightwater State School. The Schools section above maps each one with sector, year range, enrolment, Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings and ICSEA (ACARA).
Is Mountain Creek a good place to live?
#Mountain Creek, QLD 4557 has a population of 7,440, a median age of 21, a median household income around $1k/week, 50% of households renting (ABS Census 2021). There are 58 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 Mountain Creek market data last updated?
#This Mountain Creek 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.