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Brisbane's best-value suburbs: rent vs commute

Does a quick commute have to cost a fortune in rent? We put every suburb's rent against its commute to find where you get both.

We took the latest Jun 2026median weekly rents from Queensland's Residential Tenancies Authority and joined them to our door-to-door commute dataset for every suburb within 20km of the CBD. The result is a value map: cost against convenience, with the sweet spots and the traps called out.

The headline

Nundah: a 22-minute commute for $670/week. New Farm: $1200/week for 19 minutes.

You can pay $635/week more between the dearest and cheapest 3-bed house in this dataset. A short trip does not reliably cost more, and the map shows exactly where the value is.

89 suburbs with data · median $720/wk · median 41 min

Cheapest

$565

Inala, 53 min

Dearest

$1200

New Farm, 19 min

Sweet spots

14

cheap rent + quick commute

The trap

15

dear rent + slow commute

← sweet spot: cheap & quickthe trap: dear & slow →$500$675$850$1025$12000153045607590commute to the CBD (min)median weekly rent ($)Taringa — 17 min, $750/wkWindsor — 18 min, $800/wkNew Farm — 19 min, $1200/wkWest End — 20 min, $1050/wkPaddington — 21 min, $920/wkClayfield — 22 min, $900/wkIndooroopilly — 22 min, $785/wkNundah — 22 min, $670/wkRed Hill — 23 min, $850/wkAlderley — 25 min, $750/wkToowong — 26 min, $750/wkZillmere — 26 min, $650/wkAnnerley — 28 min, $750/wkAshgrove — 28 min, $820/wkKedron — 28 min, $730/wkEnoggera — 29 min, $740/wkGraceville — 29 min, $750/wkMitchelton — 29 min, $680/wkNorman Park — 29 min, $800/wkWoolloongabba — 29 min, $730/wkGreenslopes — 30 min, $800/wkBardon — 32 min, $800/wkBanyo — 33 min, $750/wkGeebung — 33 min, $675/wkHolland Park West — 33 min, $750/wkChermside — 34 min, $730/wkGordon Park — 34 min, $750/wkCannon Hill — 35 min, $780/wkCoorparoo — 35 min, $760/wkDarra — 35 min, $590/wkHolland Park — 36 min, $750/wkKeperra — 36 min, $680/wkCarina Heights — 37 min, $730/wkMorningside — 37 min, $750/wkChermside West — 38 min, $700/wkOxley — 38 min, $695/wkEast Brisbane — 39 min, $850/wkStafford — 39 min, $670/wkTarragindi — 39 min, $720/wkUpper Mount Gravatt — 39 min, $680/wkBoondall — 40 min, $700/wkCamp Hill — 40 min, $775/wkWavell Heights — 40 min, $750/wkDeagon — 41 min, $600/wkStrathpine — 41 min, $650/wkEight Mile Plains — 42 min, $690/wkEverton Park — 42 min, $700/wkSunnybank — 42 min, $680/wkCoopers Plains — 43 min, $650/wkHawthorne — 43 min, $1100/wkStafford Heights — 43 min, $725/wkMoorooka — 44 min, $720/wkThe Gap — 44 min, $720/wkCarseldine — 45 min, $750/wkJindalee — 45 min, $720/wkMacgregor — 45 min, $700/wkSt Lucia — 45 min, $700/wkEverton Hills — 46 min, $720/wkWishart — 46 min, $770/wkKenmore — 47 min, $720/wkMount Gravatt East — 47 min, $700/wkSalisbury — 47 min, $650/wkWynnum — 47 min, $700/wkAspley — 49 min, $675/wkCarindale — 49 min, $750/wkChapel Hill — 49 min, $800/wkMansfield — 49 min, $750/wkRuncorn — 49 min, $650/wkCarina — 50 min, $750/wkBald Hills — 51 min, $660/wkUnderwood — 51 min, $670/wkFitzgibbon — 53 min, $700/wkInala — 53 min, $565/wkMount Gravatt — 54 min, $750/wkBracken Ridge — 55 min, $675/wkFerny Hills — 56 min, $690/wkBrighton — 57 min, $690/wkForest Lake — 57 min, $610/wkRochedale South — 57 min, $700/wkTingalpa — 57 min, $700/wkAlbany Creek — 58 min, $740/wkSunnybank Hills — 58 min, $675/wkAcacia Ridge — 59 min, $630/wkWynnum West — 60 min, $700/wkCalamvale — 62 min, $650/wkAlgester — 64 min, $675/wkWoodridge — 64 min, $570/wkCapalaba — 66 min, $700/wkBirkdale — 76 min, $700/wk
Each dot is a suburb. Hover for its name. Lines are the medians; the green corner is the value sweet spot, the red corner the trap.

🟢 Value sweet spots

Cheaper rent AND quicker commute than the median.

  • Nundah22 min · $670
  • Zillmere26 min · $650
  • Darra35 min · $590
  • Mitchelton29 min · $680
  • Deagon41 min · $600
  • Geebung33 min · $675
  • Keperra36 min · $680
  • Strathpine41 min · $650

🔴 The trap

Dearer rent AND slower commute than the median.

  • Hawthorne43 min · $1100
  • Albany Creek58 min · $740
  • Chapel Hill49 min · $800
  • Mount Gravatt54 min · $750
  • Carina50 min · $750
  • Carindale49 min · $750
  • Mansfield49 min · $750
  • Wishart46 min · $770
Sort:
SuburbCommute3-bed houseZone
Nundah22 min$670sweet
Taringa17 min$750mid
Zillmere26 min$650sweet
Windsor18 min$800mid
Darra35 min$590sweet
Mitchelton29 min$680sweet
Indooroopilly22 min$785mid
Alderley25 min$750mid
Toowong26 min$750mid
Kedron28 min$730mid
Geebung33 min$675sweet
Woolloongabba29 min$730mid
Annerley28 min$750mid
Enoggera29 min$740mid
Graceville29 min$750mid
Deagon41 min$600sweet
Red Hill23 min$850mid
Keperra36 min$680sweet
Chermside34 min$730mid
Norman Park29 min$800mid
Banyo33 min$750mid
Holland Park West33 min$750mid
Stafford39 min$670sweet
Clayfield22 min$900mid
Ashgrove28 min$820mid
Strathpine41 min$650sweet
Paddington21 min$920mid
Greenslopes30 min$800mid
Upper Mount Gravatt39 min$680sweet
Oxley38 min$695sweet
Gordon Park34 min$750mid
Chermside West38 min$700sweet
Carina Heights37 min$730mid
Coopers Plains43 min$650mid
Bardon32 min$800mid
Coorparoo35 min$760mid
Holland Park36 min$750mid
Boondall40 min$700sweet
Tarragindi39 min$720sweet
Sunnybank42 min$680mid
Morningside37 min$750mid
Cannon Hill35 min$780mid
Eight Mile Plains42 min$690mid
Everton Park42 min$700mid
Inala53 min$565mid
Salisbury47 min$650mid
Wavell Heights40 min$750mid
Stafford Heights43 min$725trap
Macgregor45 min$700mid
St Lucia45 min$700mid
Runcorn49 min$650mid
Moorooka44 min$720trap
The Gap44 min$720trap
Camp Hill40 min$775mid
West End20 min$1050mid
Jindalee45 min$720trap
Mount Gravatt East47 min$700mid
Wynnum47 min$700mid
Aspley49 min$675mid
Everton Hills46 min$720trap
Bald Hills51 min$660mid
Kenmore47 min$720trap
Carseldine45 min$750trap
Underwood51 min$670mid
East Brisbane39 min$850mid
Forest Lake57 min$610mid
Wishart46 min$770trap
Carindale49 min$750trap
Mansfield49 min$750trap
Fitzgibbon53 min$700mid
Bracken Ridge55 min$675mid
Carina50 min$750trap
Acacia Ridge59 min$630mid
Woodridge64 min$570mid
Ferny Hills56 min$690mid
Sunnybank Hills58 min$675mid
Brighton57 min$690mid
New Farm19 min$1200mid
Chapel Hill49 min$800trap
Rochedale South57 min$700mid
Tingalpa57 min$700mid
Mount Gravatt54 min$750trap
Calamvale62 min$650mid
Wynnum West60 min$700mid
Albany Creek58 min$740trap
Algester64 min$675mid
Capalaba66 min$700mid
Hawthorne43 min$1100trap
Birkdale76 min$700mid

How it was made & cite this

Rent: median weekly rent for new bonds, Jun 2026, from the RTA's open dataset (CC BY 4.0 (Queensland Government)) — a strict 3-bedroom house and 2-bedroom unit median so suburbs compare like for like. These are new-leasemedians: what you'd pay to move in now, which sits above what long-settled tenants pay, and a median hides the spread within a suburb. Available for 89 suburbs (houses) and 65 (units); the rest are RTA-suppressed for low volume. Commute: our own door-to-door figure (walk + wait + ride to Brisbane Central), from the commute dataset.

Free to cite with a link to this page. Data © GoThere Brisbane (commute) and the State of Queensland, RTA (rent), CC BY 4.0.

Questions

What are the best-value suburbs to rent in Brisbane?+

On our data, the value sweet spots are suburbs with both below-median rent and a below-median commute. Nundah is a standout: a 22-minute commute to the CBD for a $670/week 3-bed house, well under the New Farm premium of $1200. There are 14 such sweet-spot suburbs in the map above.

Do you pay more rent for a shorter commute in Brisbane?+

Not reliably. Some inner suburbs charge a big premium for the last few minutes, but plenty of well-connected suburbs a little further out cost far less for a commute that's only marginally longer. The value map shows exactly where that trade-off is worth paying and where it isn't.

Where does the rent data come from?+

Median weekly rents for new bonds, published by Queensland's Residential Tenancies Authority (Jun 2026), joined to our own door-to-door commute dataset. It's free, authoritative open data (CC BY 4.0 (Queensland Government)). We use a strict 3-bedroom house and 2-bedroom unit median, so the figures are consistent across suburbs.

Why are some suburbs missing?+

The RTA suppresses the median where too few bonds were lodged in the quarter, which mostly affects industrial estates and acreage suburbs with thin rental markets. We show those as gaps rather than guessing.

The full commute dataset: Brisbane's best and worst suburbs for public transport →

Commute time, connectivity and the car comparison for all 205 suburbs.