Suburb profile

Newstead QLD 4006

Newstead is located in the Brisbane Inner City region of Queensland, postcode 4006. It has 7,756 properties across 37 streets, almost all units. Explore every street in Newstead, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Newstead

Newstead, QLD 4006, sits in the Brisbane Inner City region and neighbours Bulimba, Fortitude Valley, Teneriffe and Hamilton. Its 37 streets hold 7,756 properties, 613 of them houses and 7,143 units.

Census figures are for the Newstead - Bowen Hills area, which covers most of the suburb. It had 18,016 residents, a median age of 33 and an average household of 1.7 people. Median household income was $2,160 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,000 a month and the median rent $450 a week. Of 9,445 dwellings, 360 were separate houses, 119 semi-detached and 8,916 flats; 1,107 were owned outright, 1,622 owned with a mortgage and 6,477 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Newstead

  • 18,016Peoplelive in the area
  • 33Median ageyears
  • $2,160Median household incomea week
  • $450Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses360
  • Townhouses and semis119
  • Flats and apartments8,916

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,000a month
  • Household size1.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,107Owned with a mortgage 1,622Rented 6,477Other 239

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Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.

Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.