Upper Haughton QLD 4809
Upper Haughton is in Burdekin LGA, QLD, postcode 4809, with population 34.
Verify-heavy evidence
Upper Haughton depends on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
The page still has useful coverage, but Market rent should be treated as fallback or lower-precision evidence. Missing signals include Property prices, Schools, and Hospitals.
19 latest-year approvals in Burdekin, +0.0% YoY; population +0.5% YoY (0.3% 5yr).
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Upper Haughton depends on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
The page still has useful coverage, but Market rent should be treated as fallback or lower-precision evidence. Missing signals include Property prices, Schools, and Hospitals.
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Crime, Population growth, Building approvals
Market rent
Property prices, Schools, Hospitals, Transport
Upper Haughton currently reads as a thin-context candidate.
The profile is based on limited but still useful local context. 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.
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No strong positive decision reason is visible yet.
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.
Property prices, Schools, Transport
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Upper Haughton 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.
Small-population localities can still be worth checking, but rankings, comparisons, and broad suburb assumptions become noisier faster.
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.
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This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
This page is useful for direction-setting, not closure. Use it to frame the locality, then confirm the story with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Upper Haughton feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · rent +$70/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop same · rent +$40/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
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Price history
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Full data detail
Upper Haughton QLD
Upper Haughton is a quiet locality in Queensland within the Burdekin local government area (postcode 4809). With a population of 34, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 44. Households earn a median income of $156K per year, with an average household size of 3.1 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.5% year-on-year at the LGA level. QLD employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. QLD also had 32 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 12 underway, and 50 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, machinery operators & drivers, labourers. The top ancestries reported are English, Italian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $90 (Census 2021).
The crime rate in the Burdekin LGA is moderate at 4,605 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +0.5% year-on-year indicates stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Upper Haughton is a quiet locality in Queensland within the Burdekin local government area (postcode 4809). With a population of 34, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 44. Households earn a median income of $156K per year, with an average household size of 3.1 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.5% year-on-year at the LGA level. QLD employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. QLD also had 32 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 12 underway, and 50 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, machinery operators & drivers, labourers. The top ancestries reported are English, Italian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $90 (Census 2021).
The crime rate in the Burdekin LGA is moderate at 4,605 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +0.5% year-on-year indicates stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Upper Haughton FAQ
Common questions-
What LGA is Upper Haughton in?
Upper Haughton is in the Burdekin Local Government Area, QLD, postcode 4809. Council-level context for Burdekin LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
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What is the typical weekly rent in Upper Haughton?
The median weekly rent in Upper Haughton is $90/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
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Is Upper Haughton a good investment?
QuickProperty's investment signals for Upper Haughton show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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Where does QuickProperty get its data for Upper Haughton?
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.
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How often is the Upper Haughton data updated?
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.