Tin Can Bay, QLD 4580
Tin Can Bay property market
Tin Can Bay's busiest market is house sales, with 59 sales at around $746k (up) as of July 2026, taking about 57 days to sell (up a lot from 39 days last year), with around half being 3-bedroom.
House rentals come next, with 34 leases at $525 a week, renting out in about 25 days (up a lot from 15 days last year), with 3-bedroom homes making up around 60%. Rounding it out, 21 unit rentals at $450 a week (with rents growing faster than most unit rental markets nationally). 15 unit sales at around $469k (among the country's biggest unit price drops).
Who lives hereA low-income, largely mortgage-free, retirement-age suburb.
House covers houses, duplexes, semi-detached and terraces; Unit covers apartments, units, townhouses and villas.
Tin Can Bay 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 Tin Can Bay?
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 Tin Can Bay
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 Tin Can Bay
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 Tin Can Bay
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 Tin Can Bay
1 school inside Tin Can Bay, plus the closest options around it. Families can choose from 1 primary school in Tin Can Bay 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.
- Within Tin Can Bay · 1Order by
- 1Tin Can Bay State SchoolGovernment · Combined · Co-ed · Years Prep-10 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students98Multilingual50%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.
Tin Can Bay median house price & rent
Headline price, rent, yield and time on market for Tin Can Bay — 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.
Tin Can Bay 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 Tin Can Bay
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
Tin Can Bay against the neighbourhood
Eight diagnostic views cutting the data a different way each time — Tin Can Bay 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.
Tin Can Bay — Units & Houses, all bedrooms
Tin Can Bay 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 Tin Can Bay rose from $223k (Jul 2021) to $459k (Jun 2026) — +105.9% growth over five years — peaking at $641k between Jun 2025 and May 2026. Median house rent went from $321/wk to $334/wk (+4.0%) over the same period. For units, the median sale price rose from $225k to $418k (+85.9%), with rent up from $230/wk to $285/wk (+23.9%) over the same period.
Suburbs near Tin Can Bay: prices compared
The nearest suburbs to Tin Can Bay, ranked by distance — each lined up against Tin Can Bay on the same measures, so the differences jump out at a glance.
Suburbs like Tin Can Bay
Suburbs anywhere in QLD that behave like Tin Can Bay — 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.)
Tin Can Bay vs Cooloola Cove: the closest sales-market match trades at a median of $658k against Tin Can Bay's $485k — about 36% higher, with homes selling in 51 days versus 49 days here.
Comparable sales markets to Tin Can Bay: Cooloola Cove property market, Glenwood house prices, Curra market trends, Emu Park, QLD property market and Moore Park Beach property prices.
Tin Can Bay's closest rental-market twins: Cooloola Cove property market, Moore Park Beach market trends, Curra (QLD 4570), Glenwood house prices and Emu Park median house price. Each link opens that suburb's full market report.
Frequently asked · Tin Can Bay
26 data-driven answers about Tin Can Bay's property market — every one computed from the metrics above.
What things cost
Prices, rent, yield, ownership costWhat is the median house price in Tin Can Bay?
#The median house price in Tin Can Bay, QLD 4580 is $485k as of June 2026, based on 13 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 Tin Can Bay?
#The median unit price in Tin Can Bay, QLD 4580 is $485k as of June 2026, based on 13 sales over the past 12 months. Units have moved +0.5% year-on-year and currently trade at roughly 100% of the median house price.
How much does it cost to rent in Tin Can Bay?
#The median weekly house rent in Tin Can Bay is $331 as of June 2026, drawn from 7 leases over the past 12 months. Units rent for around $331 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 Tin Can Bay?
#A 3 bedroom house in Tin Can Bay rents for a median $331 per week as of June 2026, drawn from 7 leases over the past 12 months. Across other house sizes: 2-bedroom $331/week, 4-bedroom $331/week. Unit rents: 1-bedroom $331/week, 2-bedroom $331/week, 3-bedroom $331/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 Tin Can Bay?
#Gross rental yield in Tin Can Bay is 3.39% for houses and 3.39% for units as of June 2026, compared with the QLD unit median of 2.35%. 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 Tin Can Bay?
#As of June 2026, Tin Can Bay medians by bedroom count:
| Property | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | Total |
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| Houses | — | $485k | $485k | $485k | $485k |
| Units | $485k | $485k | $485k | — | $485k |
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 Tin Can Bay median?
#At the median Tin Can Bay house ($485k purchase, $331/week rent), weekly mortgage repayments sit at roughly $504 — about $173 more per week than renting. That gap is the ownership premium. For the median unit ($485k purchase, $331/week rent), repayments run about $504 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 Tin Can Bay's property market trends?
#Tin Can Bay's property market trends to June 2026: house prices rose +50.0% year-on-year and units +0.5%; weekly house rents moved +50.0%; homes now sell in a median 49 days — slower than a year ago by 9; sales supply sits at 5.3 months (very loose). Read together — price, rent, selling speed and supply — they show which way the Tin Can Bay market is leaning. The 5-year tape and demand cycle charts above plot the full trajectory.
What does the data say about Tin Can Bay as an investment?
#As of June 2026 in Tin Can Bay, house prices rose +50.0% over the year, gross rental yield is 3.39% against a QLD median of 3.23%, houses take a median 49 days to sell, sales supply is 5.3 months (very loose). 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 Tin Can Bay?
#Houses in Tin Can Bay sell in a median 49 days on market as of June 2026, with units clearing slightly similarly at 49 days. Days on market have lengthened by 9 days versus a year ago. Faster clearance typically coincides with stronger buyer demand and lower supply.
Is Tin Can Bay a tight or loose property market right now?
#Tin Can Bay's sales market sits at 5.3 months of supply for houses as of June 2026 — classified as Very Loose 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 0.4 months of supply.
Have property prices in Tin Can Bay gone up or down?
#House prices in Tin Can Bay moved +50.0% over the 12 months to June 2026, while units moved +0.5%. 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 Tin Can Bay?
#Tin Can Bay's house rental market sits at 0.4 months of supply as of June 2026 — classified as Severe (extreme shortage), with 9 houses leased over the past 12 months. Units sit at 2.0 months. Tighter supply typically corresponds to faster letting and upward pressure on rents.
Where is Tin Can Bay in its property market cycle?
#Tin Can Bay'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 Tin Can Bay compare to other QLD suburbs?
#Tin Can Bay's median house price ($485k) is 30% below the QLD median ($697k) as of June 2026. On selling speed, houses clear in 49 days vs 17 days state median. On gross yield, Tin Can Bay sits at 3.39% vs 3.23% state median.
How does Tin Can Bay compare to neighbouring suburbs?
#Tin Can Bay's most-similar nearby market is Cooloola Cove (8.3 km away) with a median house price of $658k — about 36% 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 Tin Can Bay?
#The most-transacted segment in Tin Can Bay over the 12 months to June 2026 is 2 bed houses with 10 sales. 3 bed houses come second at 10 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 Tin Can Bay last year?
#Tin Can Bay recorded 10 house sales and 10 unit sales over the 12 months to June 2026 — a combined 20 transactions. On the rental side, 9 houses and 9 units were leased. Segments with statistically thin samples are excluded from displayed figures.
About the area
Population, income, who lives here, schoolsWhat postcode is Tin Can Bay in?
#Tin Can Bay is in postcode 4580, in the Wide Bay Burnett region of QLD. Addresses there are written as Tin Can Bay, QLD 4580.
What is the population of Tin Can Bay?
#Tin Can Bay, QLD 4580 is home to 1,984 residents (ABS Census 2021). The median resident age is 42, and the average household holds 1.0 people. The "Who lives here" section above breaks the community down by age, life stage and tenure.
What is the median household income in Tin Can Bay?
#The median household in Tin Can Bay earns $509 per week — roughly $27k a year (ABS Census 2021). Median personal income runs $387/week. Income, rent-to-income and mortgage-to-income context sits in the "Who lives here" section above.
What is the unemployment rate in Tin Can Bay?
#The unemployment rate in Tin Can Bay 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 Tin Can Bay?
#Tin Can Bay 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 Tin Can Bay?
#Tin Can Bay has 2 schools within reach, 1 of them inside the suburb itself — including Tin Can Bay State School. The Schools section above maps each one with sector, year range, enrolment, Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings and ICSEA (ACARA).
Is Tin Can Bay a good place to live?
#Tin Can Bay, QLD 4580 has a population of 1,984, a median age of 42, a median household income around $509/week, 50% of households renting (ABS Census 2021). There are 2 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 Tin Can Bay market data last updated?
#This Tin Can Bay 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.