Bollon is in Balonne LGA, QLD, postcode 4488, with population 174.
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Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
66% of homes here are owner-occupied and 18% rented, with 3% of landlords negatively geared.
A balanced 66% owner-occupier / 18% renter mix.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 16% · QLD median 19%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 68% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,460/mo, while renters pay about $672/mo — owning runs $788/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 26% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $517/wk income).
Getting to work: 49% drive, 0% public transport, 16% walk or cycle, 23% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
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The National Construction Code is the baseline. Local hazards and site classifications can change the required structure, materials, fixings, insulation and detailing.
About 29.3% of the suburb intersects mapped bushfire-prone land.
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Estimated exposure to NSW RFS Bush Fire Prone Land (CC BY), point-sampled across the suburb. This shows how much of the suburb sits within the official hazard layer — it is not a Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) rating or a property-level assessment. Obtain a BAL assessment (AS 3959) for an individual property.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Balonne SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Located in Queensland within the Balonne local government area, Bollon is a sparsely populated locality (postcode 4488). With a population of 174, the suburb has a settled, mature resident base with a median age of 47. Households earn a median income of $51K per year, with an average household size of 2.2 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.1% year-on-year at the LGA level. QLD employment has moved +1.5% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. QLD also had 35 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 16 underway, and 30 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, machinery operators & drivers, clerical & administrative. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and retail trade. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Scottish.
The median weekly rent is $155 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,460.
Bollon is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 1008, which is around the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Balonne LGA is moderate at 6,860 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, Population growth of +0.1% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Bollon leans on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
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QVAS residential dwelling sales aggregated to SA2 and mapped to suburb pages
This gives you directional coverage, but it is weaker than a current rent release.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Bollon is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
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The main gaps on this page are hospital coverage and transport stops. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
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If Bollon feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop +100 · rent -$30/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop same · rent +$25/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
Bollon is in the Balonne Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4488. Council-level context for Balonne LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Bollon is $155/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Bollon show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.