Australian Family Suburbs — Interactive Maps

In-budget family suburbs (around a $900k–$1.3M house) with low-congestion commutes — showing schools, NAPLAN, catchments, hospitals, therapy practices, and crime & affluence overlays. Choose a city below.

South East Queensland

Brisbane

21 suburbs · Redcliffe, Shorncliffe, Cleveland, Springfield & Logan rail corridors

  • Suburbs with price band, rail line & km to the CBD
  • 30 secondary + 28 primary schools (≤$15k/yr): fees, NAPLAN & website links
  • Official state-school catchment boundaries on click
  • 14 hospitals + 8 therapy practices, all hyperlinked
  • Flood, crime-rate & affluence (SEIFA) overlays
Open Brisbane map →

Northern Gold Coast

7 suburbs · Ormeau, Coomera & Pimpama — easy Brisbane commute

  • Suburbs with price band, rail line & km to Brisbane CBD
  • 12 secondary + 13 primary schools (≤$15k/yr): fees, NAPLAN & website links
  • Official state-school catchment boundaries on click
  • 6 hospitals + 3 therapy practices, all hyperlinked
  • Flood, crime-rate & affluence (SEIFA) overlays
Open Gold Coast map →
Victoria

Melbourne

18 suburbs · western, south-eastern, eastern & northern growth corridors

  • Suburbs with price band, train line & km to the CBD
  • 21 secondary + 18 primary schools: fees, NAPLAN & website links
  • School zones shown as indicative circles (see note)
  • 10 hospitals + 6 therapy practices, all hyperlinked
  • Crime-rate & affluence (SEIFA) overlays
Open Melbourne map →

Geelong

9 suburbs · Geelong, Bellarine & Surf Coast — V/Line to Melbourne

  • Suburbs with price band, train line & km to Geelong CBD
  • 9 secondary + 9 primary schools: fees, NAPLAN & website links
  • School zones shown as indicative circles (see note)
  • 4 hospitals + 3 therapy practices, all hyperlinked
  • Crime-rate & affluence (SEIFA) overlays
Open Geelong map →

How to read the maps

Markers

Suburb — top pick
Suburb — value / alternative
Secondary school — Catholic (diamond)
Secondary school — Independent (diamond)
Secondary school — Government (diamond)
Primary school — Catholic (square)
Primary school — Independent (square)
Primary school — Government (square)
+ Public hospital  + Private hospital
Therapy / psychology practice

Click any marker for details, fees, NAPLAN and a website link. Toggle primary schools (squares) separately from secondary (diamonds). Clicking a school shows its catchment: in Queensland, a solid boundary for government schools (the official state catchment) or a dashed circle for Catholic/independent schools (indicative only). In Victoria, all schools show a dashed indicative circle — Victoria doesn't publish school zones as open map data, so check the exact zone at findmyschool.vic.gov.au (linked in each map).

Overlays (toggle buttons, top-left of each map)

Only one shaded overlay shows at a time — turning one on turns the other off, so the colours never clash.

Crime rate — shades each area from low to high by recorded-crime rate per 100,000 people. Click an area for its exact rate, rating and percentile.
lower higher
Queensland maps shade police divisions; Victorian maps shade LGAs (council areas). Both are area averages covering several suburbs.
Affluence (SEIFA) — shades each area by the ABS socio-economic advantage index (IRSAD). Click an area for its decile (1–10), percentile and score.
less advantaged more advantaged
By SA2 (roughly suburb-sized). Higher = higher household incomes, education and occupations — an area average, not any individual household.
Flood hazard (Queensland maps only) — the official Queensland FloodCheck hazard extent, shown in magenta. The Victorian maps have no flood layer (Victoria doesn't publish an equivalent live map service).

Each map also has an Insurance / crime info button with links to the live official sources, and a ⌂ Home button back to this page. On phones the legend collapses to a tappable "Legend / key".

Data sources & dates

Every layer is built from authoritative public data. Sources and the date/version of each:

LayerSourceDate / version
Affluence (SEIFA IRSAD) Australian Bureau of Statistics — Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas, by SA2 (ABS SEIFA) Census 2021
Crime — Victoria (Melbourne & Geelong) Crime Statistics Agency Victoria — criminal incidents by LGA (CSA) Year to Mar 2026
Crime — Queensland (Brisbane & Gold Coast) Queensland Police Service — offence rates by police division, via data.qld.gov.au. Newer live figures at the QPS Online Crime Map Baseline to Feb 2022
Flood hazard (Queensland only) Queensland Government — FloodCheck Rapid Hazard Assessment (live map service) Live service
School catchments (Queensland) Queensland Government EdMap / Schools & School Catchments (spatial service) 2025
School zones (Victoria) Indicative circles only — official zones at findmyschool.vic.gov.au (not available as open map data) 2026 zones
Suburb, school & hospital details Compiled from public listings, school and hospital websites, and real-estate market data 2025–2026
NAPLAN indicators Directional summary from ACARA My School (each school's own reporting) 2024–2025
Boundaries & base map ABS SA2 / LGA digital boundaries; QPS division boundaries; OpenStreetMap tiles 2021 / current