Suburb Profiles

Seventeen Mile Rocks

Overview

Location

14 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD.

Features

Proximity to surrounding facilities such as Jindalee Home Base Centre and DFO, Mt Ommaney Shopping Centre, and the Rocks Riverside Park.

Demographics

Over 54% of households in the area are couples with children, 33% are couples without children and 10% are single parent households. According to the 2006 Census, there were 2,899 people living in the suburb with a median age of 33. The median individual income was $735 per week. Of all occupied private dwellings, 76.6% were either fully owned or being purchased; 20.2% were being rented.

Housing data

Part of this suburb consists of newly developed housing estates and other parts are older with housing styles from the 1970s. Most (88%) of the dwellings in this area are stand-alone houses and townhouses account for another 9%. The houses are mainly fairly modern, brick and tile houses and the suburb has plenty of greenspace.

Median Price

REIQ research shows that the median house price in the suburb for the calendar year 2006 was $450,000.

Median Weekly Rent

The median weekly rent paid for a 3-bedroom house in this area in the June 2007 quarter was $310. The median weekly rent paid for a 2-bedroom unit in this area for the same period was not available.

Profile

According to REIQ research, Seventeen Mile Rocks has grown strongly during the 1990s with the number of houses in the suburb more than doubling since 1991. Although the majority of residents live in owner-occupied housing there is a developing rental market with approximately one in every four residential dwellings available for rent.

The CityXpress bus and the Centenary Highway service the area. There are several schools in the area including a secondary college located in nearby Oxley. The district has many recreational facilities include two golf courses (the Jindalee Golf Course and McLeod Country Golf Course).

Rocks Riverside Park is a newly developed precinct on the river’s edge. A city council library is located at nearby Mt Ommaney. Retail facilities in the region are extensive and include Home Base at Jindalee; the Mt Ommaney Centre, which has 110 retail outlets including a Kmart, Big W, Coles and Woolworths supermarkets; and a newly opened DFO centre in Jindalee.

There is extensive light and semi industrial and commercial development in this suburb, which was enhanced by an innovative new industrial park developed in recent years.

Source: REIQ

Seventeen Mile Rocks at a glance...