Gainsford is in Central Highlands (Qld) LGA, QLD, postcode 4702, with population 32.
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About 52.2% of the suburb intersects mapped bushfire-prone land.
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NCC 2022 Housing Provisions: how to use · NCC 2022 Volume Two and Housing Provisions
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 Central Highlands - East SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Located in Queensland within the Central Highlands (Qld) local government area, Gainsford is a quiet locality (postcode 4702). The area has roughly 32 residents and a settled, mature resident base, with a median age of 49. Households earn a median income of $113K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 people. 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, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Scottish.
The median monthly mortgage repayment is $2,000.
The crime rate in the Central Highlands (Qld) LGA is moderate at 6,557 incidents per 100,000 population.
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pop same · adds rent coverage · stronger market coverage
Better covered alternative: use this as the stronger reference point before judging the thin page.
Gainsford is in the Central Highlands (Qld) Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4702. Council-level context for Central Highlands (Qld) LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
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.