The Gap is in Mount Isa LGA, QLD, postcode 4825, with population 817.
The page is still useful for local context, but the evidence stack is too thin for a clean one-page call. Use nearby stronger suburbs or compare mode before treating it as a serious shortlist decision.
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.
38% of homes here are owner-occupied and 56% rented, with 8% of landlords negatively geared.
56% rented — renter-heavy areas turn over faster and are more exposed to rate moves and investor sentiment. Social housing is 8% of dwellings — check tenant mix and resale demand.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 13% · QLD median 19%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 79% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,300/mo, while renters pay about $1,105/mo — owning runs $195/mo higher on these medians.
Getting to work: 82% drive, 0% public transport, 11% walk or cycle, 1% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Top 75% most liveable of 4,565Australian suburbs.
Bar = this suburb's percentile · tick = typical (median) peer
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 Mount Isa SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
The Gap (postcode 4825) is a close-knit residential community in Queensland within the Mount Isa local government area. The area has roughly 817 residents and a mix of families and early-career residents, with a median age of 33. Households earn a median income of $103K per year, with an average household size of 2.2 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement softening across the broader catchment, with population growth running at -0.7% 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 median weekly rent is $255 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,300.
The crime rate in the Mount Isa LGA is higher than average at 20,801 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of -0.7% year-on-year points to declining demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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The Gap depends on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
QuickProperty mixes release files, Census baselines, and matched local services on this page. Read the status panel before treating every metric as equally fresh.
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 The Gap 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.
Use it for direction first, then confirm the story against stronger neighbouring suburbs or the state hub before relying on it.
The main gaps on this page are school matches, hospital coverage, and transport stops. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
Start here for context, then open compare, the state hub, or larger nearby suburbs before treating this as a complete market decision.
This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
Read it as a direction-setter rather than a final answer: frame the locality, then verify with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If The Gap feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · rent -$5/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop +300 · rent +$6/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
The Gap is in the Mount Isa Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4825. Council-level context for Mount Isa LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in The Gap is $255/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for The Gap show: Declining, 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.