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3 properties secured for clients in Stafford Heights since 2024. What we bought, what we paid where the buyer agreed to say, and who did the buying.

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purchases in Stafford Heights

2024 to 2025

years we have bought here

$875,000 to $1,740,000

published prices (3 of 3)

Hunter Gather has bought 3 properties in Stafford Heights for clients since 2024. Of the purchases where the property type is on record, that is 1 house. Stafford Heights sits inside our Brisbane buying area, which our agents cover street by street rather than from a desk.

Where the buyer agreed to publish the price, Stafford Heights purchases ranged from $875,000 to $1,740,000 (3 of 3 published). The rest settled privately at the buyer's request.

The buying in Stafford Heights was done by Jacob Butler, Jillian Breen, Kate Wilson and Chavonne Olivier. Whoever you speak to first, the search runs on the same shared database and the same weekly cadence.

Where Stafford Heights sits

Stafford Heights is the hill between Stafford and Chermside West, about ten kilometres north of the CBD by road. It was named for sitting higher than Stafford, used as a local name from the 1950s and gazetted in 1975, and most of it was built in one go: brick and timber family homes from the late 1950s to the early 1970s on blocks of about 600 square metres. There is no train and no shopping strip, and off the three bus roads the streets carry little traffic but their own. What it has is two shopping centres at either end, the Chermside Hills bushland across Rode Road, three hospitals within a few minutes and one of the busiest bus corridors on the north side running down Appleby Road.

Boundaries
Rode Road along the north, with Chermside West and McDowall beyond it. Trouts Road on the western side toward Everton Park. Stafford to the south and Kedron to the east, with Webster Road and Kitchener Road running out that way. Downfall Creek crosses the north-west corner through Grey Gum Park.
The roads
Appleby Road (the spine, and the 345 bus to the city). Webster Road (the eastern run to Kedron and Gympie Road, and the 325 and 335 buses). Rode Road (the northern edge, the shops and the hospitals). Trouts Road (the western edge)
Next door
Chermside WestMcDowallEverton ParkStaffordKedron

The pockets

The suburb street by street: who each pocket suits and what to check there.

The numbers on the map above mark each pocket.

1The film-star streets

Bogart Street, Cagney Street, Chaplin Street, Disney Street, Hepburn Street, Presley Street, Redgrave Street, Niven Street, Hagman Street and the streets off Trouts Road

The western side of the suburb, where the street names read like a film festival. Level to gently sloping blocks, post-war and 1960s brick and timber, and very little traffic that does not live there. Stafford Heights State School for primary on almost every street and Everton Park State High for secondary. Karloff Drive, Costello Place and Bankhead Crescent at the northern end fall to McDowall State School instead.

Suits Families who want a quiet loop of streets, the bus at the top of the hill and Everton Park State High for secondary.

2Around the school

Redwood Street, Jarvis Street, Sloane Street, Sedgemoor Street, Falkirk Street, Farrant Street, Caratel Street and Dorkay Street

The middle of the suburb around Stafford Heights State School on Redwood Street, the community kindergarten on Dorkay Street and Sedgemoor Place Park. Classic 607 square metre blocks with 1960s houses, many already lifted or built in underneath. Everton Park State High for most of it, with the eastern ends of Falkirk and Farrant Streets tipping into the Craigslea State High catchment.

Suits Families with a Prep starter who want the school, the kindy and the park inside a five-minute walk.

3Somerset Hills

Webster Road, Kitchener Road, Ringrose Street, Belfort Street, Landscape Street, Maryland Street, Deerdale Street, Heilbromm Street and Normanton Street

The 1950 Somerset Hills Estate, drawn up as 243 lots by Clem Jones's company, east of Appleby Road. Somerset Hills State School sits on the corner of Webster and Kitchener Roads and takes this whole side. Craigslea State High for secondary on most streets. Webster Road carries buses and traffic to Kedron, so the quiet addresses are the ones a street back.

Suits Families who want the eastern side's primary school and a shorter drive to Gympie Road and Westfield Chermside.

4Rode Road and the bushland edge

Parton Street, Detling Street, Malwood Street, Venetia Street, Chuter Street, Tasman Street and the top of Appleby Road

The northern strip below Rode Road. Queen of Apostles' Prep to Year 2 campus is on Chuter Street, the Woolworths Metro and the butcher are on the corner of Rode and Appleby Roads, and the Chermside Hills Reserves and the Downfall Creek Bushland Centre are across Rode Road. Downfall Creek runs through Grey Gum Park at the western end, and Parton Street is the one street where our overlay check found creek flood mapping.

Suits Families who want the bush tracks across the road, the Rode Road shops on foot and the Catholic primary's lower campus in the street.

5The eastern slope

Mawson Street, Scott Street, Bayview Street, Chisholm Street, Wattle Street, Dorrigo Street, Moree Street and Clifford Street

The south-eastern corner falling toward Kedron, with The Colour Nine cafe on Mawson Street and Broula Park at the bottom. Somerset Hills State School for primary, but this is the pocket where the secondary catchment changes to Wavell State High, and the lower ends of Clifford and Moree Streets sit in the Stafford State School primary catchment. Check the exact lot.

Suits Families who want a Kedron-side address, a cafe in the street and the shortest run to Gympie Road.

Schools and catchments

Stafford Heights has two state primary schools of its own and no high school, and the catchment lines cut across it both ways. On the Department of Education's 2026 layer, Stafford Heights State School takes about half the suburb and Somerset Hills State School most of the rest, with McDowall State School in the north-west corner and slivers of Stafford and Craigslea. Secondary splits three ways: Everton Park State High for the west, Craigslea State High for the north and middle, Wavell State High for the south-eastern streets. Check the exact address on EdMap before you count on a school.

Primary catchments, splitStafford Heights and Somerset HillsBy homes, about 53% Stafford Heights and about 41% Somerset Hills
Secondary catchments, splitEverton Park SHS and Craigslea SHSBy homes, about 52% Everton Park SHS and about 38% Craigslea SHS
Catchments touching the suburb5 primary, 3 secondaryDrawn street by street. Check the lot on EdMap.

State primary

Stafford Heights State SchoolPrep to 6

Prep to Year 6 on Redwood Street, open since 1956, the catchment school for about half the suburb: the western and central streets. A small school with an enrolment management plan capping it at 388 students, equidistant catchment, gazetted 20 February 2026.

95 Redwood Street, Stafford Heights QLD 4053MapWebsite

Somerset Hills State SchoolPrep to 6

Prep to Year 6 on the corner of Webster and Kitchener Roads, open since 1966 and named after the estate it serves, with a special education program. It takes the eastern side of the suburb, about 40 percent. It has no published enrolment management plan.

Corner of Webster Road and Kitchener Road, Stafford Heights QLD 4053MapWebsite

McDowall State SchoolPrep to 6

Prep to Year 6 on Rode Road in McDowall, the catchment for the north-western corner: Karloff Drive, Costello Place, Bankhead Crescent, Dors Court and part of Parton Street. A large school capped at 1,044 students with Prep limited to 150 in six classes and a Program of Excellence in instrumental music, gazetted 22 August 2025.

1018 Rode Road, McDowall QLD 4053MapWebsite

Stafford State SchoolPrep to 6

Prep to Year 6 on Stafford Road. Its catchment reaches only the lower ends of Clifford Street and Moree Street at the south-eastern edge. No published enrolment management plan.

314 Stafford Road, Stafford QLD 4053MapWebsite

Craigslea State SchoolPrep to 6

Prep to Year 6 on Hamilton Road in Chermside West. Its catchment touches only the top of Appleby Road near Rode Road. Enrolment management plan capping it at 808 students, gazetted 9 December 2022.

Hamilton Road, Chermside West QLD 4032MapWebsite

State secondary

Everton Park State High SchoolYears 7 to 12

Years 7 to 12 on Stafford Road, the state high school for the western half of the suburb, about 52 percent of it. Equidistant catchment with an enrolment management plan capping it at 1,041 students, gazetted 7 November 2025.

668 Stafford Road, Everton Park QLD 4053MapWebsite

Craigslea State High SchoolYears 7 to 12

Years 7 to 12 on Hamilton Road in Chermside West, the catchment for the northern and middle streets, about 40 percent. Capped at 1,124 students, gazetted 22 August 2025, with set places for its Volleyball Academy, Signature Music Program and Excellence in Science.

685 Hamilton Road, Chermside West QLD 4032MapWebsite

Wavell State High SchoolYears 7 to 12

Years 7 to 12 on Telopia Avenue in Wavell Heights, the catchment for the south-eastern streets: Mawson, Scott, Bayview, Chisholm, Wattle and most of Dorrigo. Capped at 1,885 students, gazetted 22 August 2025.

70 Telopia Avenue, Wavell Heights QLD 4012MapWebsite

Catholic and independent

Queen of Apostles Catholic Primary SchoolPrep to 2

Co-educational Catholic primary on two campuses: Prep to Year 2 at 46 Chuter Street inside the suburb, opened in 2002, and Years 3 to 6 on Thuruna Street in Stafford. Families move between the two as the children grow.

46 Chuter Street, Stafford Heights QLD 4053MapWebsite

Padua CollegeYears 5 to 12

Boys, Years 5 to 12, a Franciscan college on Turner Road in Kedron, a few minutes' drive south-east.

80 Turner Road, Kedron QLD 4031MapWebsite

St Anthony's School

Catholic primary on Somerset Road in Kedron, just past the suburb's eastern edge.

121 Somerset Road, Kedron QLD 4031MapWebsite

Northside Christian CollegePrep to 12

Co-educational, Prep to Year 12, on Flockton Street in Everton Park, founded in 1985. The closest Prep to Year 12 option to the western streets.

151 Flockton Street, Everton Park QLD 4053MapWebsite

Early learning

Goodstart Early Learning Stafford Heights

Long day care on Appleby Road in the middle of the suburb, on the 345 bus route. Put your name down when you exchange, not when you settle.

191 Appleby Road, Stafford Heights QLD 4053MapWebsite

Stafford Heights Kindergarten

Community kindergarten on Dorkay Street, a street from Stafford Heights State School.

12 Dorkay Street, Stafford Heights QLD 4053MapWebsite

The line between Stafford Heights State School and Somerset Hills State School runs roughly down Appleby Road and splits Appleby Road, Kingaroy Street, Wilgarning Street and Tasman Street themselves. The secondary line is separate and runs a different way, so a house can be Stafford Heights primary and Craigslea high, or Somerset Hills primary and Everton Park high. We pull the EdMap for the exact lot before every inspection.

Check the exact address on the Queensland EdMap. Early learning ratings on StartingBlocks.

Daily life in Stafford Heights

The places the week runs on: coffee and the school run, the evening out, the big shop, the pool and the GP.

Mornings

The Colour NineIn the suburb

Family and dog friendly cafe on Mawson Street with an all-day breakfast menu, 7am to 1pm weekdays and to 2pm on weekends. The local's cafe on the eastern side.

2/85 Mawson Street, Stafford Heights QLD 4053MapWebsite

The Loaf10 min drive

Toasties and coffee on Byth Street in Stafford from 5.30am on weekdays, a few minutes down the hill. Closed by 1pm.

1a Byth Street, Stafford QLD 4053MapWebsite

Cafe UrbanoIn the suburb

A small cafe in the Wilgarning Street shops in the middle of the suburb.

Wilgarning Street, Stafford Heights QLD 4053Map

Evenings

Oh Boy, Bok Choy!10 min drive

South-east Asian share plates on Stafford Road with parking behind the building, dinner seven nights and lunch Friday to Sunday.

264 Stafford Road, Stafford QLD 4053MapWebsite

Miss Sophia's Gelateria10 min drive

Gelato churned on site from Maleny milk, open until 9.30 or 10pm every night. The after-dinner walk on Stafford Road.

240 Stafford Road, Stafford QLD 4053MapWebsite

The Gibson10 min drive

The sports club behind Stafford City, 10am to midnight seven days, for a meal after junior sport. Membership is $1.

352 Stafford Road, Stafford QLD 4053MapWebsite

ANFE Italian Club10 min drive

Italian club and restaurant on Stafford Road with dine in, takeaway and function rooms.

429 Stafford Road, Stafford QLD 4053MapWebsite

Hoyts Stafford City10 min drive

The cinema in Stafford City, open late, ten minutes from anywhere in the suburb.

400 Stafford Road, Stafford QLD 4053MapWebsite

The big shop

Rode Road shopsIn the suburb

Woolworths Metro, a butcher, a bakery and takeaway on the corner of Rode Road and Appleby Road. The top-up shop for the northern half of the suburb.

734 Rode Road, Stafford Heights QLD 4053Map

Stafford City Shopping Centre10 min drive

Woolworths, ALDI, Kmart and Hoyts on Stafford Road, with late trading on Thursdays. The everyday big shop for the southern and western streets.

400 Stafford Road, Stafford QLD 4053MapWebsite

Westfield Chermside5 min drive

The biggest shopping centre on the north side, on Gympie Road about five minutes east: the department stores, Event Cinemas and the dining precinct.

Gympie Road, Chermside QLD 4032MapWebsite

Health and fitness

Chermside Aquatic Centre10 min drive

Council pool on Hamilton Road: a heated 25-metre outdoor lap pool, a heated 16-metre indoor pool for learn-to-swim, and a water park open on weekends and school holidays from October to April.

375 Hamilton Road, Chermside QLD 4032MapWebsite

The Prince Charles Hospital10 min drive

The major public hospital on Rode Road, a couple of minutes east of the suburb, with its emergency department.

Rode Road, Chermside QLD 4032MapWebsite

St Vincent's Private Hospital Northside10 min drive

Private hospital on Rode Road beside Prince Charles.

627 Rode Road, Chermside QLD 4032MapWebsite

Anytime Fitness Stafford10 min drive

24-hour gym on Stafford Road in the same block as the gelateria.

240 Stafford Road, Stafford QLD 4053MapWebsite

Getting around

Roma Street by bus21 to 29 minRoute 345 down Appleby Road, morning peak
CBD by carAbout 20 minOutside the peak, via Stafford Road and Lutwyche Road
Central by train19 to 21 minFrom Gaythorne or Mitchelton, a five to ten minute drive

Train

There is no station in Stafford Heights. The nearest are Gaythorne and Mitchelton on the Ferny Grove line, a five to ten minute drive west, about 19 and 21 minutes to Central on the current timetable, with trains every fifteen minutes in the morning peak. Most families here use the bus instead.

Train timetable

Bus

Route 345 runs down Appleby Road from Aspley to the city on a Tuesday timetable of about 180 trips a day, with 28 departures between 7am and 9am, and reaches the Roma Street busway in 21 to 29 minutes in the morning peak. Routes 325 and 335 run express along Webster Road to the city, and 353 runs from Trouts Road and Parton Street. Route 354 links Mitchelton and Chermside across the suburb.

Route 345 timetableRoute 325 timetable

Road

About twenty minutes to the CBD outside the peak via Stafford Road and Lutwyche Road, or Gympie Road and the Airport Link tunnel. The airport is about twenty minutes on Airport Link, a toll each way. Westfield Chermside and Stafford City are each five minutes.

Bus routes

34528325335353354

Route numbers named in the bus notes above. Timetables on Translink.

Pinch points Gympie Road and the Stafford Road intersection back up from 7.30am, and Rode Road around Prince Charles and St Vincent's is slow at shift change. Webster Road carries through traffic toward Kedron. Stafford City's car park fills on a Saturday morning. Inspect anything on Appleby Road, Webster Road or Rode Road in the morning peak before you decide the traffic does not bother you.

Weekends

Chermside Hills Reserves5 min drive129 hectares across Chermside Hills, Raven Street and Milne Hill reserves, open eucalypt forest with walking and bike tracks, birdwatching and turtles in the creek. The Raven Street entrance is across Rode Road from the suburb.

  • Downfall Creek Bushland Centre5 min drive

    Council's environment centre in Raven Street Reserve: a senses trail, a playground, half-court basketball, barbecues and a free native plants nursery. The centre is open Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 4pm; the trails are open every day.

    815 Rode Road, Chermside West QLD 4032MapWebsite

  • Grey Gum ParkIn the suburb

    Downfall Creek's park at the north-western corner, with a dog off-leash area. Council is replacing sections of the concrete creek channel with a natural waterway from late July 2026 to early 2027; the dog park stays open during the works.

    Parton Street, Stafford Heights QLD 4053MapWebsite

  • Bradbury Park10 min drive

    Just over the Kedron line: a playground, a fenced off-leash dog area and the Kedron scooter and skate track on Kitchener Road.

    Kitchener Road, Kedron QLD 4031MapWebsite

  • Stafford Squash CentreIn the suburb

    Courts on Kitchener Road inside the suburb, for coaching and a family hit on a Saturday.

    244 Kitchener Road, Stafford Heights QLD 4053MapWebsite

  • Chermside Library10 min drive

    Council library on Hamilton Road next to the aquatic centre, open until 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Pool in the morning, library after.

    375 Hamilton Road, Chermside QLD 4032MapWebsite

The houses

What is here
Brick and timber family homes built between the late 1950s and early 1970s make up most of the suburb: highset and lowset three-bedders, many since lifted or built in underneath, with 1990s homes and later rebuilds scattered through. Of the eight houses sold between June and August 2026, seven were built between 1960 and 1971. Almost everything is a house: 2,687 of the 2,769 dwellings at the 2021 census.
Block sizes
607 square metres is the classic Stafford Heights block, and 600 to 670 is normal. Recent sales on Appleby Road, Maryland Street and Ringrose Street were 607 square metres, Kingaroy Street 670 and Caratel Street 660. A few older lots were split to about 400. That is the reason families come here: a yard for the kids without leaving the ten-kilometre ring.
Character overlays
Stafford Heights is post-war, so Brisbane's traditional building character overlay does not shape it the way it does the inner suburbs. Our street sample found no character overlay anywhere in the suburb. Extensions, pools and granny flats are governed by the zone and the usual siting rules. Check the lot on City Plan before you plan.
How it was built
  1. 1950The Somerset Hills Estate was drawn up as 243 lots east of Appleby Road by Clem Jones's company.
  2. Late 1950s to early 1970sMost of the suburb was built in one go: brick and timber three-bedders on blocks of about 600 square metres.
  3. 1975Stafford Heights, a local name since the 1950s for the hill above Stafford, was gazetted as a suburb.
  4. 1990sA scatter of 1990s homes and later rebuilds joined the original houses.
  5. NowMany 1960s houses have been lifted or built in underneath, and a few older lots split to about 400 square metres.

What the money buys

Around $1.1m

An original 1960s brick or timber three-bedder on about 600 square metres, or a smaller lot, usually needing a kitchen and bathroom. Our lowest published Stafford Heights purchase is $875,000.

$1.25m to $1.5m

A tidy or renovated three or four-bedroom house on 607 to 670 square metres. The three-bedroom median for the year to September 2026 was $1,262,500 and the four-bedroom median $1.5m.

$1.6m and above

A fully renovated or rebuilt four or five-bedder, often with a pool or a self-contained flat downstairs. Our published Stafford Heights purchases run to $1,740,000.

3 purchases since 2024, all 3 with published prices from $875,000 to $1,740,000. Live grid on the page.

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What to check before you buy in Stafford Heights

Flood

Most of Stafford Heights sits on the hill and our street sample found no Brisbane River or creek flood mapping except on Parton Street, where Downfall Creek comes through Grey Gum Park and one sample point sits inside the 1 percent annual chance flood extent. None of the sampled streets were inside the 2011 or 2022 flood extents. Pull the FloodWise Property Report for the exact lot, because overland flow paths are drawn separately and can cross a backyard on a hill.

Flood Awareness MapFloodWise Property Report

Noise

Appleby Road, Webster Road and Rode Road carry buses all day and traffic in the peaks, and Rode Road runs past two hospitals. The rest of the suburb is quiet streets. Check the address on the Brisbane Airport flight path tool, then stand in the backyard at 7am and again at 9pm.

Brisbane Airport flight path tool

Overlays and approvals

Little character overlay, so the checks are the zone, any creek or overland flow overlay near Downfall Creek and bushfire mapping on the lots backing onto the Rode Road bushland. City Plan's interactive mapping shows every overlay on the lot, and Development.i shows what the neighbours have been approved to build.

City Plan mappingDevelopment.i

Catchments

Five primary and three secondary catchments touch the suburb. Stafford Heights State School, McDowall State School, Craigslea State School and all three high schools run enrolment management plans. Check the lot on EdMap, then ring the school.

Queensland EdMap

Red flags

  • A house on Appleby Road, Webster Road or Rode Road priced like a quiet-street house. The bus and the traffic are the discount, so make sure you are getting it.
  • A downstairs built in or converted to a flat with no approval on file. Ask for the council records before you pay for the extra bedroom.
  • A lot backing onto Downfall Creek or the Rode Road bushland bought without the FloodWise report and a check of the overland flow and bushfire mapping.

Where the value sits

  • An original 1960s house on a full 607 square metre block, lifted or extended the way the neighbours already have, on a street a block back from the bus routes.
  • The Somerset Hills side, where the eastern streets sit a few minutes from Westfield Chermside and Gympie Road.
  • The film-star streets off Trouts Road: quiet loops, Stafford Heights State School for primary and Everton Park State High for secondary on most of them.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Queensland Rail train at Brisbane Airport, Figaro at en.wikipedia, Public domain; Brisbane Transport bus, BrisbaneBuzSpotter, CC BY-SA 4.0; Story Bridge, Kangaroo Point, John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Stafford Heights purchases we can show

Every card is a real settlement for a Hunter Gather client. Prices appear where the buyer agreed to publish them.

Stafford Heights

House

3 bed1 bath1 car 642m²
$1,250,000 Jillian Breen, Kate Wilson
11 Sep 2025

Stafford Heights

5 bed3 bath2 car 949m²
$1,740,000 Jacob Butler
14 Apr 2025

Stafford Heights

3 bed2 bath2 car 630m²
$875,000 Chavonne Olivier
28 Jun 2024

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Buying in Stafford Heights: the questions we get

It is split. On the 2026 catchment layer, Stafford Heights State School takes the western and central streets and Somerset Hills State School the eastern side, with McDowall State School in the north-west corner and small edges of Stafford and Craigslea. Secondary splits between Everton Park State High in the west, Craigslea State High in the north and middle, and Wavell State High in the south-east. Check the exact address on EdMap.

Most of the suburb is on the hill and outside the river and creek flood mapping. Downfall Creek through Grey Gum Park is the exception, and Parton Street is the one street where our check found creek flood mapping. Pull the FloodWise report for any address, because overland flow is mapped separately.

By bus. Route 345 down Appleby Road reaches the Roma Street busway in 21 to 29 minutes in the morning peak with departures every few minutes, and routes 325 and 335 run express from Webster Road. By car it is about twenty minutes outside the peak. There is no train station in the suburb.

607 square metres is the classic block, and most sit between 600 and 670. A few older lots were split to about 400.

In 2026, a tidy or renovated three-bedroom house on a full block. The three-bedroom median for the year to September 2026 was $1,262,500, and four-bedders sat around $1.5 million.

Stafford Heights is higher, quieter and almost all post-war houses on 600 square metre blocks, with Westfield Chermside and the hospitals on one side. Everton Park has more variety in its housing, the Kedron Brook parkland and Brookside shopping centre next door, and its streets along the brook need a flood check. Families who want a level yard on a hill usually lean Stafford Heights.

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