Pialba, QLD 4655
Pialba property market
Pialba has one of Australia's most balanced markets, led narrowly by unit rentals, with 92 sales (up 7%) at around $757k (up 4.8%) as of July 2026, taking about 31 days to sell (up from 26 days last year), with 3-bedroom and 4-bedroom roughly tied at around 45% each.
House rentals are nearly as big, with 86 leases (up 13.2%) at $655 a week (up 6.5%), renting out in about 23 days (up from 19 days last year), with more than half being 4-bedroom. Rounding it out, 43 unit sales at around $574k (up), less sought-after than most unit markets. 42 unit rentals at $505 a week.
Who lives hereA low-income, renter-heavy, retirement-age suburb — newcomer-heavy.
House covers houses, duplexes, semi-detached and terraces; Unit covers apartments, units, townhouses and villas.
Pialba 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 Pialba?
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 Pialba
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 Pialba
Incomes, employment, and the occupation mix of the people who live here.
Household and personal income sit close together — lots of single-earner or lone-person homes.
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 Pialba
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 Pialba
3 schools inside Pialba, plus the closest options around it. Families can choose from 11 primary schools in Pialba and its surrounds, and 6 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.
- Within Pialba · 3Order by
- 1Pialba State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 2Hervey Bay State High SchoolGovernment · Secondary · Co-ed · Years 7-12 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 3Xavier Catholic CollegeCatholic · Combined · Co-ed · Years Prep-12 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- Nearby · within 5 km · 12
- 4Fraser Coast Anglican CollegeIndependent · Combined · Co-ed · Years Prep-12 · Wondunna · 2.6 kmState RankTop 50%English★★★★★★★★★★Maths★★★★★★★★★★Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 5Bayside Christian College Hervey BayIndependent · Combined · Co-ed · Years Prep-12 · Urraween · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 6Kawungan State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Kawungan · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 7Hervey Bay Special SchoolGovernment · Special · Co-ed · Years Prep-12 · Kawungan · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 8St James Lutheran CollegeIndependent · Combined · Co-ed · Years Prep-12 · Urraween · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 9Yarrilee State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Urraween · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 10Torquay State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Torquay · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 11Urangan State High SchoolGovernment · Secondary · Co-ed · Years 7-12 · Urangan · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 12Sandy Strait State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Urangan · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 13Star of the Sea Catholic SchoolCatholic · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Torquay · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 14Carinity Education - GlendyneIndependent · Special · Co-ed · Years 6-12 · Nikenbah · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 15Urangan Point State SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years Prep-6 · Urangan · 2.6 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students530Multilingual50%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.
Pialba median house price & rent
Headline price, rent, yield and time on market for Pialba — 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.
Pialba 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 Pialba
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
Pialba against the neighbourhood
Eight diagnostic views cutting the data a different way each time — Pialba 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 | ▼ -0.8 | 3 | 31 | 2.6 | |
| Balanced | 2.4 | ▲ +0.5 | 6 | 31 | 2.6 | |
| Balanced | 2.7 | ▲ +0.7 | 7 | 31 | 2.6 | |
| Slightly loose | 3.4 | ▲ +2.3 | 9 | 31 | 2.6 | |
| Loose | 5.5 | ▲ +4.8 | 14 | 31 | 2.6 | |
| Loose | 6.6 | ▲ +4.9 | 17 | 31 | 2.6 | |
| Oversupply | 7.3 | ▲ +5.9 | 19 | 31 | 2.6 |
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.
Pialba — Units & Houses, all bedrooms
Pialba 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 Pialba rose from $238k (Jul 2021) to $632k (Jun 2026) — +165.9% growth over five years — peaking at $657k between Jun 2025 and May 2026. Median house rent went from $336/wk to $404/wk (+20.2%) over the same period. For units, the median sale price rose from $206k to $413k (+100.3%), with rent down from $292/wk to $270/wk (−7.5%) over the same period.
Suburbs near Pialba: prices compared
The nearest suburbs to Pialba, ranked by distance — each lined up against Pialba on the same measures, so the differences jump out at a glance.
Suburbs like Pialba
Suburbs anywhere in QLD that behave like Pialba — 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.)
Pialba vs Burnett Heads: the closest sales-market match trades at a median of $609k against Pialba's $548k — about 11% higher, with homes selling in 19 days versus 32 days here.
Comparable sales markets to Pialba: Burnett Heads median house price, Scarness median house price, Tinana (QLD 4650), Woree median house price and Manunda average house price.
Pialba's closest rental-market twins: Tinana, QLD property market, Scarness property market, Woree property market, Burnett Heads property market and Manunda property prices. Each link opens that suburb's full market report.
Frequently asked · Pialba
26 data-driven answers about Pialba's property market — every one computed from the metrics above.
What things cost
Prices, rent, yield, ownership costWhat is the median house price in Pialba?
#The median house price in Pialba, QLD 4655 is $548k as of June 2026, based on 24 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 Pialba?
#The median unit price in Pialba, QLD 4655 is $548k as of June 2026, based on 24 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 Pialba?
#The median weekly house rent in Pialba is $319 as of June 2026, drawn from 18 leases over the past 12 months. Units rent for around $319 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 Pialba?
#A 3 bedroom house in Pialba rents for a median $319 per week as of June 2026, drawn from 18 leases over the past 12 months. Across other house sizes: 4-bedroom $319/week. Unit rents: 1-bedroom $319/week, 2-bedroom $319/week, 3-bedroom $319/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 Pialba?
#Gross rental yield in Pialba is 3.96% for houses and 3.96% for units as of June 2026, compared with the QLD unit median of 2.50%. 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 Pialba?
#As of June 2026, Pialba medians by bedroom count:
| Property | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | — | $548k | $548k | $548k | $548k |
| Units | — | $548k | $548k | — | $548k |
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 Pialba median?
#At the median Pialba house ($548k purchase, $319/week rent), weekly mortgage repayments sit at roughly $524 — about $205 more per week than renting. That gap is the ownership premium. For the median unit ($548k purchase, $319/week rent), repayments run about $524 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 Pialba's property market trends?
#Pialba'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 32 days — slower than a year ago by 10; sales supply sits at 7.3 months (saturated). Read together — price, rent, selling speed and supply — they show which way the Pialba market is leaning. The 5-year tape and demand cycle charts above plot the full trajectory.
What does the data say about Pialba as an investment?
#As of June 2026 in Pialba, house prices rose +50.0% over the year, gross rental yield is 3.96% against a QLD median of 2.93%, houses take a median 32 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 Pialba?
#Houses in Pialba sell in a median 32 days on market as of June 2026, with units clearing slightly similarly at 32 days. Days on market have lengthened by 10 days versus a year ago. Faster clearance typically coincides with stronger buyer demand and lower supply.
Is Pialba a tight or loose property market right now?
#Pialba'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 Pialba gone up or down?
#House prices in Pialba 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 Pialba?
#Pialba's house rental market sits at 1.8 months of supply as of June 2026 — classified as Balanced, with 28 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 Pialba in its property market cycle?
#Pialba's house market is currently in the 'softer_weakening' 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 Pialba compare to other QLD suburbs?
#Pialba's median house price ($548k) is 6% above the QLD median ($518k) as of June 2026. On selling speed, houses clear in 32 days vs 20 days state median. On gross yield, Pialba sits at 3.96% vs 2.93% state median.
How does Pialba compare to neighbouring suburbs?
#Pialba's most-similar nearby market is Burnett Heads (52.3 km away) with a median house price of $609k — about 11% 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 Pialba?
#The most-transacted segment in Pialba over the 12 months to June 2026 is 2 bed houses with 31 sales. 3 bed houses come second at 31 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 Pialba last year?
#Pialba recorded 31 house sales and 31 unit sales over the 12 months to June 2026 — a combined 62 transactions. On the rental side, 28 houses and 28 units were leased. Segments with statistically thin samples are excluded from displayed figures.
About the area
Population, income, who lives here, schoolsWhat postcode is Pialba in?
#Pialba is in postcode 4655, in the Wide Bay Burnett region of QLD. Addresses there are written as Pialba, QLD 4655.
What is the population of Pialba?
#Pialba, QLD 4655 is home to 2,872 residents (ABS Census 2021). The median resident age is 28, 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 Pialba?
#The median household in Pialba earns $579 per week — roughly $30k a year (ABS Census 2021). Median personal income runs $444/week. Income, rent-to-income and mortgage-to-income context sits in the "Who lives here" section above.
What is the unemployment rate in Pialba?
#The unemployment rate in Pialba 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 Pialba?
#Pialba 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 Pialba?
#Pialba has 15 schools within reach, 3 of them inside the suburb itself — including Pialba State School, Hervey Bay State High School, Xavier Catholic College. The Schools section above maps each one with sector, year range, enrolment, Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings and ICSEA (ACARA).
Is Pialba a good place to live?
#Pialba, QLD 4655 has a population of 2,872, a median age of 28, a median household income around $579/week, 50% of households renting (ABS Census 2021). There are 15 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 Pialba market data last updated?
#This Pialba 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.