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ABS 2021 Census · Updated 21 May 2026
Lake Manchester is an outer-metropolitan suburb of Brisbane, Australia, with a population of approximately 17, making it a boutique locality. Located approximately 26 km from the Brisbane CBD, Lake Manchester is a outer metro area in Queensland. The median household income is $116,948 per year.
Strong household incomes in Lake Manchester underpin solid property demand.
Official Australia Post postcode for Lake Manchester. A postcode may cover multiple suburbs.
Australia Post Postcode Finder →Usual resident population at the most recent census.
Weekly median rent for occupied homes. Live rental data integration coming soon.
Annual median household income (before tax) across all households.
Straight-line distance from the suburb centroid to the nearest capital city CBD. Actual driving distance will be longer.
Estimated 1 school within or near this suburb.
Find schools near Lake Manchester on My School →Estimated 1 park and green spaces near this suburb.
Monthly median mortgage repayment for households currently paying off a mortgage.
Proportion of separate houses versus units, townhouses, and other home types. Useful for investors assessing rental demand mix.
Lake Manchester is a smaller community of 17 — about 0% of the Queensland suburb median (5,474) — so investors should factor in the narrower buyer pool and longer average time-on-market. Median household income of $116,948/year runs 30% above the Queensland suburb median of $90,298, indicating strong purchasing power and the type of demographic profile that tends to sustain premium property prices through market cycles. At 26 km from Brisbane, Lake Manchester is an outer-metro location where buyers are typically trading commute time for floor space and a lower entry price. Separate houses make up 100% of dwellings — 23 percentage points above the Queensland median of 77% — pointing to a family-oriented, land-rich market where value is concentrated in the underlying block.
How Lake Manchester stacks up against the median of all Queensland suburbs in our dataset. Positive values mean Lake Manchester sits above the state median; negative means below.
| Metric | Lake Manchester | QLD median | Δ vs state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 17 | 5,474 | -100% |
| Median household income | $116,948/yr | $90,298/yr | +30% |
| Median mortgage (monthly) | $1,050 | $1,733 | -39% |
| Distance to CBD | 26 km | 62 km | -58% |
| Separate houses | 100% | 77% | +23pp |
Pre-inspection briefing for Lake Manchester — every item is derived from public datasets, with full citations in our data sources page.
Limited buy-and-hold upside: a small population of 17 means liquidity is thin and capital growth tends to lag the wider Queensland market over full cycles.
Median rental data was not captured for Lake Manchester. Use current realestate.com.au and Domain listings to triangulate a realistic weekly rent before committing, then feed that number into our rental yield calculator.
With 100% houses in a 17-person market, renovation margins depend on individual street and aspect rather than any suburb-wide story — do comparable-sales analysis before committing capital.
Run the numbers on a Lake Manchester property
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Create free account →Capital-growth expectations for Lake Manchester are modest for 2026 — incomes 30% above the QLD median of $90,298 and a population of 17 suggest gains will lag headline metro markets. Rental fundamentals will need to be verified against live listings, as a clean median rent was not recorded for Lake Manchester. The EquitySight investment score of 62/100 places Lake Manchester in the upper-middle tier of Australian suburbs we profile, and overall investor sentiment is balanced heading into the second half of 2026.
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Lake Manchester scores 62/100 on our EquitySight investment framework — a good rating. That score is driven by a population of 17, median household income of $116,948/year. Whether it fits your portfolio depends on whether you are targeting cash flow, capital growth, or a value-add renovation — all three are scored with suburb-specific numbers elsewhere on this page.
The main demand drivers in Lake Manchester are an above-state-median household income of $116,948/year, a dwelling mix that is 100% separate houses, roughly 1 schools and 1 parks within the catchment. Together these shape both owner-occupier and tenant demand and are the factors we weight most heavily in the suburb's investment score.
Lake Manchester has a usual resident population of approximately 17, compared with a Queensland suburb median of 5,474 — placing it in the lower half of the state's suburbs by size. Population is the clearest proxy for market depth: more residents mean more transactions and typically a shorter average days-on-market on resale.
Lake Manchester sits 26 km straight-line from the Brisbane CBD. This is an outer-metro location; local employment and infrastructure announcements tend to move prices more than CBD connectivity alone.
A reliable median rent was not captured for Lake Manchester. Benchmark expected weekly rent on realestate.com.au and Domain, or the state rental tribunal's rent dashboard. Most Australian investors target a 4–5% gross yield as a baseline.
The median monthly mortgage repayment in Lake Manchester is $1,050, or approximately $12,600/year (vs $1,733/month state median). Stress-test your own borrowing at rates 1–2 percentage points above today's to make sure you can still service the loan through an RBA tightening cycle.
Census data was not complete enough in Lake Manchester to compute a clean rent-to-mortgage coverage. Use current listings to benchmark weekly rent, then plug your expected purchase price into our rental yield calculator to see whether the investment runs cash-flow positive or negative.
The main risks are a thin buyer pool (17 residents), interest-rate sensitivity on the $1,050 median mortgage, the broader Queensland market cycle. Each of these is covered in the Risk Factors section above with suburb-specific numbers rather than generic warnings.
Every number on this page comes from the ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, Australia Post postcode reference data, and OpenStreetMap amenity tiles. The investment score, strategy verdicts, and comparison table are computed deterministically from those inputs — no opinion, no estimation. See our full methodology and the data sources and licences for the formulas we use.