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Slacks Creek

A single suburb, as the publisher names it.

As published

Slacks Creek in thirty seconds

suburb · Wider area
Demand Weak
Main population driver Net overseas migration
Approved pipeline Contracting
Housing delivery Moderate
Rental pressure High
Evidence Limited

Population grew +0.7% over the year to 30 June 2025, against +1.5% for Australia over the same period.

Net overseas migration was the largest component of that change.

Dwelling approvals were −40.0% against the twelve months before. Approvals are permission to build, not completed dwellings.

Completions over the same period were equivalent to 81% of commencements, for Queensland. These figures compare pipeline flows and do not track individual approved dwellings through construction.

Achieved rents moved +12.0% over the year, against +7.4% for the middle suburb in Queensland.

Each of these is a separate reading with its own rule and its own figures, set out under Housing Balance below. There is deliberately no single score: one number would hide which of them was doing the work.

At $560 a week, Slacks Creek is higher than 29% of the 563 QLD suburbs we hold.

Rents there are up 12.0% over the past year, faster than Queensland as a whole (up 8.3%).

Based on 106 new leases. Enough to be meaningful, but a single unusual quarter will move it.

The most common new lease there was a three-bedroom house, at $600 a week across 37 of them.

Rental market

Median weekly rent$560publisher’s figure · June quarter 2026
One year+12.0%June quarter 2026 against a year earlier
Five years+60.0%June quarter 2026 against five years earlier
Since September quarter 2017+80.6%36 quarters of history

36 quarters of history

Median weekly rent of bonds lodged in the quarter, which is what tenants actually started paying rather than what was advertised. Every point is a figure the publisher published; nothing between them is filled in.

$300$400$500$600$56020172019202120232025

What we hold for Slacks Creek

Median weekly rent$560publisher’s figure · June quarter 2026

The numbers behind the chart

Every quarter the publisher reported, as figures rather than a shape. Download as CSV — a stable link you can cite, check against the publisher’s own workbook, or put in a spreadsheet.

36 quarterly figures
QuarterMedian weekly rent Change on the quarter before
June quarter 2026$560+1.8%
March quarter 2026$550-4.3%
December quarter 2025$575+10.6%
September quarter 2025$520+4.0%
June quarter 2025$500+13.6%
March quarter 2025$440-12.0%
December quarter 2024$500+2.0%
September quarter 2024$490-2.0%
June quarter 2024$500+4.2%
March quarter 2024$480-1.0%
December quarter 2023$485+4.3%
September quarter 2023$465+3.3%
June quarter 2023$450+2.3%
March quarter 2023$440+15.8%
December quarter 2022$380-2.6%
September quarter 2022$390-2.5%
June quarter 2022$400+14.3%
March quarter 2022$350+1.4%
December quarter 2021$345+1.5%
September quarter 2021$340-2.9%
June quarter 2021$350+9.4%
March quarter 2021$3200.0%
December quarter 2020$3200.0%
September quarter 2020$320+1.6%
June quarter 2020$315-1.6%
March quarter 2020$3200.0%
December quarter 2019$3200.0%
September quarter 2019$320+3.2%
June quarter 2019$310-3.1%
March quarter 2019$320+3.2%
December quarter 2018$310-3.1%
September quarter 2018$320+1.6%
June quarter 2018$315-1.6%
March quarter 2018$320+4.9%
December quarter 2017$305-1.6%
September quarter 2017$310

Queensland publishes no openly licensed sale prices at this level, so there is no yield here rather than one built on a value we would have to model.

Only New South Wales publishes rent quartiles, so the spread of rents within this market is not shown.

Where that sits

The suburbs either side of Slacks Creek, ranked by the same figure in the same quarter.

Suburb Median rentOne year
Wilsonton$550+14.6%
Kepnock$560+1.8%
North Ipswich$560+1.8%
Slacks Creek$560+12.0%
Wyreema$560+12.0%
Gracemere$565+8.7%
Avenell Heights$570+9.6%

What it costs by size

The same quarter, split the way Queensland splits it. The figure at the top of this page blends all of these together, so it describes none of them exactly. A blank cell means the publisher reported nothing for that combination here — usually because there were too few new leases to publish.

SizeHousesTownhousesUnits and flats
2 bedrooms Not publishedNot published$40011 new leases
3 bedrooms $60037 new leases$55015 new leasesNot published
4 bedrooms $70014 new leasesNot publishedNot published

The rest of Logan City

Slacks Creek is inside Logan City, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics boundary correspondence. The council itself has a figure of its own, computed over every bond inside the boundary rather than averaged from these.

Suburb Median weekly rent One year New leases
Cornubia$750+8.7%22
Bahrs Scrub$700+7.7%70
Chambers Flat$700+55.6%26
Greenbank$700+4.5%216
Rochedale South$700+6.1%96
Shailer Park$700+12.9%37
Underwood$700+7.7%58
Waterford$700+16.7%51
Daisy Hill$680+7.9%53
Mount Warren Park$680+38.8%34
Browns Plains$650+10.2%90
Edens Landing$650+10.2%33
Jimboomba$650+3.2%94
Regents Park$650+8.3%57
South Maclean$650+10.2%50
Springwood$650+4.8%63
Yarrabilba$645+7.5%274
Flagstone$630+8.6%139
Logan Reserve$630+12.5%339
Park Ridge$625+7.8%286
Boronia Heights$620+10.7%80
Holmview$615+7.9%75
Loganholme$610-1.6%60
Crestmead$600+9.1%132
Eagleby$580+9.4%155
Hillcrest$580+7.4%91
Kingston$580+16.0%111
Marsden$580+5.5%127
Meadowbrook$580+114.8%34
Tanah Merah$580-0.9%40
Bethania$570+9.6%65
Slacks Creek$560+12.0%106
Beenleigh$550+7.8%82
Waterford West$540+8.0%62
Woodridge$530+17.8%148
Logan Central$525+5.0%69
Loganlea$520-1.9%96

The Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes population and dwelling approvals by council area, not by suburb, and a suburb is not one of its statistical areas. Rather than report a neighbouring boundary’s figures as this market’s, neither is shown here. The council it sits in, Logan City, has both.

Housing Balance

Where housing demand is coming from, how quickly supply is being delivered, and how rents are responding. Six readings, each with the figures behind it and the rule that turned those figures into a word. None of them says a market is short of housing: that needs household formation, which APRIQ does not hold, and is not estimated here.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics does not publish population for suburbs. What is shown is the figure for Slacks Creek, the statistical area containing Slacks Creek — it describes that wider area, not this suburb.

Demand

Weak

How fast the population is growing, against the national rate.

Why?
Population growth, Slacks Creek+0.7%the year to 30 June 2025
Population growth, Australia+1.5%the year to 30 June 2025

Strong when growth is at least half a percentage point above the national rate, weak when at least half a point below, moderate in between. Population is one ABS instrument measured the same way everywhere, so a market compares to Australia.

Main population driver

Net overseas migration

Which component moved the population most over the latest year the ABS splits it.

Why?
Natural increase, Slacks Creek+68the year to 30 June 2025
Net internal migration, Slacks Creek−113the year to 30 June 2025
Net overseas migration, Slacks Creek+117the year to 30 June 2025

The largest of natural increase, net internal migration and net overseas migration by absolute size, so a large outflow is named rather than hidden inside a net total. This states which component was largest. It says nothing about why anyone moved.

Approved pipeline

Contracting

Whether dwelling approvals are running above or below the year before.

Why?
Dwellings approved, Slacks Creek12June quarter 2026
The twelve months before, Slacks Creek20a year earlier
Change on the year before, Slacks Creek−40.0%June quarter 2026

Expanding above +10%, contracting below −10%, stable in between, comparing twelve months of approvals against the twelve before them. An approval is permission to build, not a dwelling. Where a market is smaller than the areas the Australian Bureau of Statistics counts approvals for, this is a blend of those areas' own changes, weighted by how much of each the market covers — not a count of approvals here.

Housing delivery

Moderate

How much housing is being finished, against how much is being started.

Why?
Dwellings completed, Queensland8,035March quarter 2026
Dwellings started, Queensland9,885March quarter 2026
Completions as a share of commencements81%March quarter 2026

Strong at or above 95% of commencements, weak below 80%, moderate in between, over the same twelve months. Completions during the period compared with commencements during the period — these figures compare pipeline flows and do not track individual approved dwellings through construction.

Rental pressure

High

How fast achieved rents are rising, against the rest of the state.

Why?
Rent change over a year, Slacks Creek+12.0%June quarter 2026
Rent change over a year, the middle suburb in Queensland+7.4%June quarter 2026

High when rents rose at least one percentage point faster than the state, low when at least a point slower, moderate in between. Compared against the state rather than the nation because each bond authority defines its own series: changes compare, levels do not.

Evidence

Limited

How much of this market's picture was measured for this market.

Why?
Demand evidencemeasured for a larger area containing this markethow it was made
Components present5 of 5on this page

High where the demand evidence was published for this geography and most components are present; moderate where it was derived through an official ABS correspondence; limited where it describes a larger area containing this market, or where components are missing.

Market signals

Four separate readings, each with the figures behind it and the rule that turned those figures into words. There is deliberately no single score: one number would hide which of these was doing the work, and a market with strong rental evidence and no population figure would score as though it had both. Every signal describes what has been measured — none of them is advice, and none says what will happen next.

Rental momentum

Rising faster than most of Queensland

How rents here moved over a year, against the typical suburb in Queensland.

Why?
Rent change over a year here+12.0%June quarter 2026 against a year earlier
The middle suburb in Queensland+7.4%June quarter 2026 against a year earlier
Difference+4.6 percentage pointsJune quarter 2026 against a year earlier
Markets in the comparison563June quarter 2026 against a year earlier

The difference between this market’s one-year rent change and the middle change across every suburb the same publisher reports, in percentage points: 3 or more above is well above, 1 above is above, within 1 either way is in line. Changes are compared within one state because each bond authority defines its own series — movement may be compared between them, the rent itself may not.

Population pressure

Not enough evidence

How fast the population here is changing, against how fast Australia is changing.

No population estimate is published for this market at a geography the ABS uses.

Approved housing pipeline

Not enough evidence

How many dwellings this market approved over twelve months for every thousand residents, against the national rate. Approvals are permission to build, not completed dwellings.

Dwelling approvals are published by council area, and this market is not one.

Evidence quality

Adequate

How much weight the figures on this page can carry.

Why?
New leases behind the current figure106June quarter 2026
Quarters of history36to June quarter 2026
How currentThe latest quarter published anywhereJune quarter 2026
OriginAs the publisher published itJune quarter 2026
KnowabilityDated by the publisher’s own release timingJune quarter 2026

Strong needs 200 or more new leases behind the current figure, the most recent quarter published anywhere, and eight or more quarters of history. Adequate needs 50 leases and no more than one quarter behind. A withheld count cannot earn better than thin, because a suppressed number is unknown rather than small.

Where these numbers come from

The latest figures here are for June quarter 2026, which ended 30 June 2026. The next is September quarter 2026, ending 30 September 2026; it appears here once the publisher releases it, and we do not predict that date.

The rent figures here are published by Residential Tenancies Authority and used under an open licence. Any other figure on this page names its own publisher on the line it appears on. Every rent figure is either as published or arithmetic on figures as published. APRIQ models and estimates nothing: where a figure is a publisher’s own estimate — an estimated resident population is one — it is called an estimate where it is shown. Growth is measured between named quarters, never by counting back rows, because an area is published only when it clears the publisher’s reporting threshold. This page exists because Slacks Creek has 106 bonds behind its current figure and 36 quarters of history; markets with less than that get no page rather than a thin one. Method, sources and licences.