Everton Park
Queensland · Bald Hills - Everton Park, Brisbane - North
Live · ABS ERP June 2025
The weekday morning train from Mitchelton station reaches the CBD in 21 min, against 42 min from the middle Queensland area with a timetabled station. The median age is 35, lower than the middle Queensland area (39, Census 2021).
Everton Park has 3 schools (2 government, 1 non-government; ACARA School Profile 2025) and 9 NQS-rated childcare services (ACECQA register). Population is 11,303 (ABS ERP June 2025); the AM-peak train journey to the CBD takes 21 min (TransLink, static GTFS, timetable from 31 Oct 2026).
Everton Park at a glance
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Boundaries: ABS Suburbs & Localities 2021. School pins are ACARA's published locations. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO. Open the full QLD map →
How the Family-Fit score is built80/100
Family-Fit score
Method published in fullVery strong for families - strongest on getting around, weakest on families already here.
- Schools in the area · 20% of the score
- 74/100
- Childcare & early years · 15% of the score
- 90/100
- Everyday amenities · 15% of the score
- 89/100
- Getting around · 15% of the score
- 98/100
- Housing affordability · 15% of the score
- 66/100
- Families already here · 10% of the score
- 64/100
- Socio-economic profile · 10% of the score
- 78/100
QLD median 61/100
3 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 1043
QLD median 60/100
9 NQS-rated services nearby
QLD median 73/100
6 parks · no GP mapped (not counted) · 2 supermarkets · 6 playgrounds
QLD median 56/100
21 min to the CBD by train from Mitchelton station
QLD median 51/100
Paying over 30% of income on housing: 8.7% of mortgage-holding households, 25.5% of renting households
QLD median 64/100
18.2% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 42.2% of families are couples with children
QLD median 44/100
SEIFA IRSAD decile 8 of 10 nationally
The grey marker on each bar is the median across the 484 Queensland areas we publish a score for (state median overall: 58/100). It is context, not a pass mark.
How this score is calculated
Each published figure for the Everton Park SA2 is mapped onto 0–100 by fixed thresholds, then weighted. Inputs with no data here are dropped and the rest rescaled - never scored as zero. Every threshold and weight →
School results, crime and flood or bushfire overlays are not graded into this score. Limits of the score →
What families notice
What families notice
- This address is zoned to Everton Park State School (government, no fees).
- Ranks in the top 30% for socio-economic advantage in QLD (ABS SEIFA - not a safety or school-quality measure).
- At least one nearby government school has an above-average ICSEA intake profile (1084 vs. 1000 national average).
- We don't yet have official crime data for QLD (only NSW and VIC) - that's a data gap on our side, not a claim this area is safe.
Living in Everton Park: family snapshot
Living in Everton Park
A mid-sized suburb. Growing quickly - population is up 3.0% in the past year. Many childcare options nearby - 9 NQS-rated services. About a 21-minute train to the CBD. Mostly detached family homes.
Everton Park compared with Queensland10 measures
| Measure | Everton Park | QLD average | Against QLD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children aged 0 to 4 | 6.8% | 5.7% | Higher |
| Children aged 5 to 14 | 11.4% | 13.0% | Lower |
| Couple families with children | 42.2% | 41.0% | Higher |
| One-parent families | 17.4% | 17.0% | About the same |
| Homes owned outright | 25.3% | 29.3% | Lower |
| Homes owned with a mortgage | 34.0% | 35.6% | Lower |
| Homes rented | 40.0% | 33.2% | Higher |
| Separate houses | 61.5% | 76.6% | Lower |
| Flats and apartments | 13.2% | 11.1% | Higher |
| Born overseas | 21.1% | 22.7% | Lower |
Source: ABS Census 2021. The QLD figure is the population-weighted average of the 543 QLD areas with a published value. "Higher" and "Lower" describe the number only.
About this area and its boundary
Everton Park is a locality in the Bald Hills - Everton Park area of Queensland. This profile draws on ABS population and Census figures, the ACARA school register and ACECQA childcare ratings for the Everton Park SA2.
11,303 residents - 18.2% are children under 15, median age 35.
This profile uses the ABS Everton Park statistical area (SA2) - the level Australian government data is published at. SA2 boundaries don’t always match suburb boundaries. It covers the gazetted suburb of Everton Park, drawn separately on the map above.
Property market
A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $700 a week. Queensland publishes no free suburb sale-price series.
Source: RTA Queensland median rents · Jun 2026
Homes and households
Source: ABS Census 2021. Where the shares do not add to 100%, the rest is "other" or "not stated".
Housing cost pressuremortgage and rent against income
Housing cost pressure
In Everton Park, 25.5% of renting households spend more than 30% of their income on rent, and 8.7% of households with a mortgage spend more than 30% on repayments - the ABS's stretched-household threshold (Census 2021).
ABS published figures, not our calculation.
- Mortgage over 30% of income
- 8.7%
- Rent over 30% of income
- 25.5%
QLD avg 11.9%
Share of households WITH a mortgage whose repayments take more than 30% of income. That's 120 of 1,278 households with a stated repayment.
QLD avg 32.3%
Share of RENTING households whose rent takes more than 30% of income. That's 415 of 1,508 households with a stated rent.
The two figures cover different households (mortgage-holding vs renting), so never add them. How the ABS counts these → Grey marker: QLD average (520 for mortgage and 528 for rent). Census 2021 - housing costs have moved since. Not financial advice.
What's being built herenew homes approved, year by year
What's being built here
15 new homes were approved in Everton Park in the year to June 2025. Councils approved 398 new dwellings here across the 6 years to June 2025 - an approval is permission to build, not a home that exists yet.
Approved in the year to June 2025
Middle QLD area: 31
Separate houses
Private sector, over these 6 years
Townhouses & apartments
Private sector, over these 6 years
Counts are for the whole Everton Park statistical area. What these counts include → Dashed line: the median of 487Queensland areas.
About this data
Rent only: median weekly rent of new tenancies lodged with the Queensland RTA, by postcode. Queensland publishes no free suburb sale-price series, so we show no house price here rather than an estimate. © The State of Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority, CC BY 3.0 AU.
Schools and childcare
3 schools are located in the area, and the centre of the area is zoned to Everton Park State School. 9 childcare services are on the national register, 8 rated Meeting the National Quality Standard or above.
Everton Park State School
The government school your child can attend for free by living in Everton Park.
This is the zoned government school for the centre of Everton Park (QLD catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
See the catchment on the mapThe government Year 7 zone for the centre of Everton Park (QLD catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.
Fee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.
We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
All school zones in the Brisbane council area →
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Schools in Everton Park
- Students
- 558
- ICSEA
- 1084
- Students
- 653
- ICSEA
- 1104
- Students
- 482
- ICSEA
- 1001
ICSEA reflects student intake context, not teaching quality (1000 = national average). Source: ACARA School Profile 2025. All QLD schools →
Childcare: 9 services
National Quality Standard ratings from the ACECQA register, refreshed Oct 2026. Services are matched by suburb name.
Childcare services, ratings and fees9 services
- Exceeding NQSHarmony Early Education Everton ParkCentre-Based Care · 112 places · Everton ParkRated Aug 2022 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
- Exceeding NQSNext Steps KindyCentre-Based Care · 66 places · Everton ParkRated Jul 2026
- Exceeding NQSEverton Park KindergartenCentre-Based Care · 25 places · Everton ParkRated Apr 2026
- Meeting NQSEPOSHCCentre-Based Care · 200 places · Everton ParkRated Jun 2026
- Meeting NQSNorthside Christian College After School/Vacation CareCentre-Based Care · 90 places · Everton ParkRated Nov 2025
- Meeting NQSMilestones Early Learning Everton ParkCentre-Based Care · 75 places · Everton ParkRated May 2024
- Meeting NQSLittle Navigators Early Learning - Everton ParkCentre-Based Care · 70 places · Everton ParkRated Jan 2026
- Meeting NQSPrince Of Peace Lutheran KindergartenCentre-Based Care · 30 places · Everton ParkRated Apr 2025
- Working Towards NQSEverton Park Child Care and Development CentreCentre-Based Care · 80 places · Everton ParkRated Jun 2025
- Centre-based day care
- $14.28/hr
- Outside school hours care
- $7.86/hr
Mean hourly fee across CCS-approved services, December quarter 2025 - Dept of Education, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. Published at SA3 level (a wider area than this suburb's SA2), so it's an average across Bald Hills - Everton Park and surrounds, not this specific service list.
Verify locations before visiting. A rating over 3 years old is flagged. What the NQS ratings mean → Childcare places per child, by suburb →
Who lives here
More rented homes than Queensland overall: 40.0% of homes, against 33.2% statewide.
Ages of people here
Share of residents in each age band, in years. Source: ABS Census 2021.
How the area is changingCensus 2011 to 2021
Each line is drawn on its own scale, so compare the numbers, not the heights. Source: ABS Census 2011, 2016 and 2021.
Census trends against the middle QLD areafull charts
Which way this area is moving
The 2011, 2016 and 2021 Censuses for Everton Park, counted on today's boundaries.
Since 2011, Everton Park has seen a larger share of children, more residents born overseas and more residents speaking another language at home.
- People counted
- +1,720 people since 2011
- Median age
- −1 year since 2011
- Children aged 0–14
- +2.2 pts since 2011
- Born overseas
- +3.4 pts since 2011
- Speak another language at home
- +3.4 pts since 2011
Usual residents counted on Census night.
Half the residents are older than this, half younger.
Share of all residents. The clearest signal of families arriving or moving on.
Share of all residents born outside Australia.
Share of residents who stated a language, speaking one other than English at home.
The dashed line is the median across the Queensland areas we profile. How the three Censuses line up →
Where this year's population change came from+3.00% in a year
Where did the gain come from?
+325Reading the streams: overseas arrivals were the dominant force - more came from abroad than the suburb grew on its own.
Ages against the state average, band by band
Ages of people here
11.4% of people here are school-age children (5–14) - fewer than the Queensland average of 13%, and 6.8% are under 5. The median age is 35.
- 0–4 years · before school
- 6.8%
- 5–14 years · school age
- 11.4%
- 15–19 years · teens
- 4.7%
- 20–34 years
- 26.8%
- 35–54 years
- 28.1%
- 55–64 years
- 8.6%
- 65 years and over
- 13.7%
QLD avg 5.7%
QLD avg 13%
QLD avg 6.1%
QLD avg 19.9%
QLD avg 26.4%
QLD avg 11.9%
QLD avg 17%
Share of all residents of Everton Park (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census; the grey marker is the Queensland average. How the bands and averages work →
Households and families
Households and families
60% of families here have children living at home - about the Queensland average of 58%. The largest overseas-born communities are United Kingdom (3.2%), New Zealand (2.6%) and India (1.7%). 40% of homes are rented.
Family make-up
Share of all families in the area. A small "other family" group the ABS also counts is not shown.
- Couple with children
- 42.2%
- One-parent family
- 17.4%
- Couple, no children
- 37.7%
QLD avg 41%
QLD avg 17%
QLD avg 40.4%
What people live in
Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated structures are not shown.
- Separate house
- 61.5%
- Semi-detached / townhouse
- 25.4%
- Flat or apartment
- 13.2%
QLD avg 76.6%
QLD avg 11.5%
QLD avg 11.1%
Owned or rented
Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated tenures are not shown.
- Owned outright
- 25.3%
- Owned with a mortgage
- 34%
- Rented
- 40%
QLD avg 29.3%
QLD avg 35.6%
QLD avg 33.2%
Figures describe Everton Park (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census; the grey marker is the Queensland average. How these are counted →
Birthplaces, languages and communities
Who lives in Everton Park
Top 5 overseas birthplaces shown · 90.5% born in Australia or a country not in the top five.
- United Kingdom · established by 2016
- 3.2%
- New Zealand · established by 2016
- 2.6%
- India · established by 2016
- 1.7%
- South Africa · established by 2016
- 1.1%
- Philippines · established by 2016
- 0.9%
QLD avg 4.4%
QLD avg 4%
QLD avg 1.3%
QLD avg 0.8%
QLD avg 0.7%
- Co-located communities
- Everton Park is home to established United Kingdom and New Zealand communities - each is 2% or more of residents born overseas here, not a ranking of one against another.
- Nearby
- McDowall, Mitchelton and Enoggera also have an established United Kingdom community.
- Settlement pattern
- Of overseas-born residents who stated when they arrived, 15.9% arrived in the last 5 years (2016–2021) (QLD avg 15.8%) and 39.1% arrived before 2001 (QLD avg 45.9%).
- English at home
- Of residents who speak a language other than English at home and stated their English proficiency, 9.2% report speaking English “not well” or “not at all” (QLD avg 11.3%) - a self-reported ABS figure across all languages combined, not a judgement of any one community.
Figures describe Everton Park (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census. The ABS publishes only the five largest communities per area, so a missing name did not rank in the top five. How these are counted →
Socio-economic index (SEIFA)decile 8 of 10
- Decile (1 lowest, 10 highest)
- Decile 8 of 10
- Where this sits in QLD
- top 30% of Queensland areas
A relative comparison of the whole area against all of Australia - not a safety, liveability, or school-quality measure. What IRSAD measures → Source: ABS SEIFA 2021, IRSAD index (SA2).
Getting around and lifestyle
The morning-peak train from Mitchelton station reaches the city in 21 minutes, and the nearest emergency department is St Vincent's Private Hospital Northside, 3.7 km away in a straight line.
Mapped inside the Everton Park boundary. A zero can mean "not mapped" rather than "not there". Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Train to the city and nearest emergency department
Train to the city
Timetable published21 min from Mitchelton station
Median scheduled weekday morning-peak travel time to the central-city terminus, from the closest station to the middle of this area (1.6 km away in a straight line). Train leg only.
Nearest emergency department
MappedSt Vincent's Private Hospital Northside · 3.7 km
Straight-line distance from the middle of this area - not a drive time. In an emergency call 000; do not plan around this figure.
Community and recreation
Out with a baby
Public-toilet facilities recorded on the National Public Toilet Map - not every place in the area that will let you change a baby.
About this data
Counts of features tagged in OpenStreetMap inside the Everton Park boundary. “Middle QLD area”: the median of 538 Queensland areas. How these counts and times are made →
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors · baby-facility counts from the National Public Toilet Map (Continence Foundation of Australia, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, CC BY 3.0 AU) · TransLink, static GTFS, timetable from 31 Oct 2026
Crime & safety in Everton Park
Official recorded-incident data is only published on this site for NSW and VIC so far - that's a coverage gap on our side, not a claim that Everton Park is safe. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe. More on crime & safety →
Risks
1 of the 1 planning and hazard records we hold show something in this area: traffic noise. 6 more are not published for QLD - treat them as not checked.
Traffic noise
Freeway or highway presentSouth Pine Road · Old Northern Road · Stafford Road
Each line is the extent of an official record across the whole Everton Park area - not a risk rating, and a specific address may or may not be affected. Not financial or insurance advice.
All 9 checks and what each one means
Flooding
Not publishedNo free statewide flood overlay is published for QLD yet, so we show none. Check the local council's planning maps.
Bushfire
Not publishedWe hold official bushfire mapping for Victoria and New South Wales only - nothing is published here for QLD yet. Check the state fire service's mapping.
Heritage controls
Not publishedWe hold official heritage overlay mapping for Victoria and New South Wales only - nothing is published here for QLD yet. Check the local council's planning scheme and the state heritage register.
Traffic noise
Freeway or highway presentSouth Pine Road · Old Northern Road · Stafford Road
3 named roads through this area carry OpenStreetMap's highest classification - a freeway, motorway or major highway, whatever the road is called locally, alongside 3 named main roads. Roads are counted by name, not by mapped segment. Where a home sits relative to them matters far more than the count - a street two blocks back can be quiet.
Aircraft noise
Not publishedWe hold official aircraft-noise mapping for Victoria and New South Wales only - nothing is published here for QLD yet. Check the airport's noise contours and the local planning scheme.
Land contamination checks
Not mappedWe hold official contaminated-land overlay mapping for Victoria only - nothing is published here for QLD yet. Check the state environment authority's contaminated land register and the local planning scheme.
Acid sulfate soils
Not publishedWe hold acid sulfate soil mapping for Victoria and New South Wales only - nothing is published here for QLD yet. Coastal and estuarine land is where these soils occur; check the state's soil mapping and the local planning scheme.
Recorded crime
Not publishedQLD does not release the suburb-level incident counts we republish for New South Wales and Victoria, so we show none here.
Social housing
Census figure2.8% rented from a state or territory housing authority · 0.2% from a community housing provider
Share of occupied private dwellings here with a stated tenure (Census 2021). The middle QLD area is 1.6% public and 0.4% community, across 531 areas. Listed because families ask; it is a fact about who owns the homes, not a judgement about the people in them.
About this data
Every line is an official published record for the Everton Park area - we don't rate, score or rank any of them. Where a line is missing, treat it as not checked rather than clear. What each line covers and does not →
Source: ABS Census 2021 (G37 tenure and landlord type) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) - road classification
Nearby suburbs
- McDowall 1.0 km
- Mitchelton 2.0 km
- Enoggera 2.0 km
- Stafford Heights 2.4 km
- Keperra 2.6 km
- Stafford 2.7 km
The six closest profiled areas in Queensland, by distance between area centres.
Other areas in Bald Hills - Everton Parksorted by growth in one year
- 01McDowall+3.6%8,886 ppl
- 02Bridgeman Downs+2.0%11,888 ppl
- 03Carseldine+1.6%10,472 ppl
- 04Bald Hills+0.6%8,412 ppl
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