Kensington is in Bundaberg LGA, QLD, postcode 4670, with population 722.
There are enough stretched or weaker signals here that you should assume trade-offs rather than a clean story. Use compare mode to see whether the downside is price, local quality, or weaker momentum before treating it as a target suburb.
Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. Gross yield looks low for an income-first use case. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Indicative cashflow is interest-only and excludes tax — use the calculator for a full projection. Turnover divides recorded sales by an estimated household count (population over average household size).
74% of homes here are owner-occupied and 20% rented, with 4% of landlords negatively geared.
74% owner-occupied — owner-occupiers hold longer and absorb rate shocks, supporting price stability.
Gross yield 1.7% is thin — returns here lean on capital growth, not cash flow.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
New-loan repayment $3,822/mo vs median rent $1,083/mo (+253% · +$632/wk)
At 4.2%: $3,051/mo (-770) · at 6.2% (current): $3,822/mo · at 8.2%: $4,666/mo (+844)
Assumes a 20% deposit and a 30-year principal-and-interest loan at the current RBA new owner-occupier variable rate, against median weekly household income (ABS Census 2021). Stress bands follow the 30% / 45%-of-income thresholds used in ANZ-CoreLogic and AIHW reporting. Rent vs buy compares that repayment with the suburb's median advertised rent; it excludes rates, insurance, maintenance and deposit opportunity cost.
Alternatives are similar-priced suburbs (0.7–1.4x this suburb's median) in other council areas that exceed it on the named metric. Indicative — not financial advice.
This suburb 15.4x · QLD median 9.6x — less affordable than the QLD typical
Nationally · more affordable to buy than 22% of AU suburbs
This suburb 26% · QLD median 19%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 15% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,625/mo, while renters pay about $1,083/mo — owning runs $542/mo higher on these medians.
Serviceability line: a household needs about $2,940/wk to hold a new loan on the median house at 30% of income (20% deposit, 30-year P&I, current RBA rate).
At the median asking rent, about 43% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $833/wk income).
Getting to work: 86% drive, 0% public transport, 1% walk or cycle, 6% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Top 87% most liveable of 4,565Australian suburbs.
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Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within Australian suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
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ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Branyan - Kensington SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Located in Queensland within the Bundaberg local government area, Kensington is a small locality (postcode 4670). It is home to about 722 residents, with an older-leaning population and a median age of 47. Households earn a median income of $51K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.3% 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 clerical & administrative, labourers, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and construction. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
Median house prices in Kensington sit at $780,000, little changed on a year ago. The median weekly rent is $250 (Census 2021). This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 1.7%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,625.
The crime rate in the Bundaberg LGA is moderate at 4,902 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, Kensington shows a gross rental yield of approximately 1.7%, rated as low yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($780K/$1.1M), which can point to relative value. The price-to-income ratio of 15.4x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +0.0% year-on-year. Population growth of +1.3% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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QVAS residential dwelling sales aggregated to SA2 and mapped to suburb pages
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
Kensington is in the Bundaberg Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4670. Council-level context for Bundaberg LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The current median house price in Kensington, QLD is $780K, based on the latest available sales data from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region.
The median weekly rent in Kensington is $250/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Kensington show: Low Yield, Below Median, Stretched. 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.