Loganlea sits in Logan City roughly 30 km south of Brisbane, in postcode 4131. The reading is SEIFA decile 1 at IRSAD 873, in the 10th state percentile within Queensland.
ABS 2021 IRSAD release. Score 873 (national mean = 1000).
Decile 1 is the lowest national band, and the 10th state percentile is a clear signal. Loganlea's postcode is on the lower end of Logan's broader urban area, with older housing stock and a tenant-heavy profile. What sets the suburb apart structurally rather than economically is the Loganlea Hospital and the rail station, both of which sit inside the postcode and shift the demand profile compared with the surrounding suburbs. PropertyRanker uses SEIFA as a primary signal for economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. A decile 1 reading drags the score on those three criteria, and the entry_point_risk criterion in particular reflects the historical volatility of price growth in this postcode. The strategy match is usually Yield. The 6% gross-yield anchor is reachable on some detached stock in 4131, and the hospital and rail combination gives the rental_market_depth criterion a more durable read than the headline SEIFA reading would suggest. The risk read is that yield-strategy listings here are doing structural work, the SEIFA signal is honest, and the holding-cost spread between a tenant-quality unit and a tenant-quality dispute is wider than in higher-decile postcodes.
Loganlea QLD 4131 is running a strong seller's market. According to yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au (CoreLogic data, to March 2026), the median house price sits at $850,000, up 15.65% over 12 months, with 117 houses sold in that period. propertyvalue.com.au (Cotality) records a vendor discount of -3.1% and average days on market of 21, while htag.com.au notes a vacancy rate of just 0.76% and stock on market of 0.3%, pointing to tight supply and firm rental demand.
A vacancy rate of 0.76%, days on market of 17-21 days, and a vendor discount of only -3.1% all point to a supply-constrained, demand-driven market consistent with a hot band.
Sources: Loganlea QLD 4131 Suburb Profile - Your Investment Property Mag (CoreLogic) (2026-03-01); Loganlea House Prices & Property Trends - PropertyValue.com.au (Cotality) (2025-01-01); Loganlea QLD 4131 Property Market and House Prices 2026 - HTAG (2026-01-01); Loganlea QLD 4131 Median Sale Price Snapshot - Image Property (2026-07-01) · Refreshed 2 Sep 2026
PropertyRanker scores any Australian property against 12 criteria across three pillars: Growth, Cashflow, and Risk. SEIFA is a primary signal for economic strength and a supporting one for entry-price risk. It also informs the crime side of hazard risk, though physical overlays like flood, bushfire and coastal exposure, and recorded crime data where available, take priority there. The decile of 1 shown above gives a listing in Loganlea a softer starting line on economic strength, though often a firmer one on entry-price risk, since less advantaged postcodes usually carry lower entry prices.
On top of that, PropertyRanker chooses one of four strategies (Balanced, Growth, Yield, Regional) and applies a per-strategy yield anchor. The anchors are 3.5% for Growth, 5% for Balanced, 6% for Yield, and 7% for Regional. A postcode at this level tends to make the Yield (6% anchor) and Regional (7% anchor) strategies more reachable, because a lower entry price lifts the gross yield a listing can achieve, while a Growth result usually depends on a specific catalyst such as an infrastructure or renewal pipeline.
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SEIFA is a postcode-level read. The fastest sanity check on any single decile reading is to compare it against the suburbs that surround it.
Loganlea's housing varies sharply by street. SEIFA cannot tell you the difference between a street walking distance to the hospital and a street further into the older residential pockets. Tenant quality, recent rental arrears history, the body corporate health on any unit purchase, and the actual proximity to the train station and hospital are the deciding factors on a Loganlea deal. Score the listing for a verdict that accounts for those, rather than relying on the postcode reading alone.
The data positions Loganlea as a yield-focused postcode rather than a capital growth one. A SEIFA IRSAD score of 873 (national mean 1000) and a 10th state percentile reading drag PropertyRanker's economic_strength and entry_point_risk criteria, signalling above-average price volatility relative to higher-decile suburbs. What partially offsets that read is the structural demand generated by Logan Hospital and the Loganlea rail station on the Beenleigh line, both confirmed inside postcode 4131; those anchors support the rental_market_depth criterion in a way the headline SEIFA figure alone does not capture. Score a specific listing on PropertyRanker to see how those competing signals resolve for that property.
The High Yield strategy, anchored around a 6 percent gross yield, is the closest match for 4131 based on the current analysis. The Capital Growth strategy (around 3.5 percent yield anchor) is a harder fit because the decile 1 SEIFA reading flags material entry_point_risk and the postcode's history of price volatility. The hospital and rail corridor help sustain tenant demand on detached stock, which is where the yield anchor is more reachable, but the actual yield figure depends on the specific listing; run it through PropertyRanker for a live score.
The three scoring criteria most affected by SEIFA in Loganlea are economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk, and a decile 1 reading compresses all three. Entry_point_risk is particularly relevant here because the postcode shows historically wider price-growth volatility than higher-decile Logan suburbs. Beyond the score, the analysis flags that the spread between a smooth tenancy outcome and a contested one is wider in disadvantaged postcodes, meaning holding-cost blowouts are a realistic scenario to stress-test before committing to any listing.
Logan Hospital is the major public hospital for Logan City, employing over 3,000 staff, and the Loganlea station on the Beenleigh line sits within the same postcode, with a government-funded relocation project underway to move the station directly opposite the hospital precinct. Those two demand anchors give the rental_market_depth criterion a more durable foundation than a raw SEIFA decile 1 reading would suggest on its own, because they create a persistent pool of shift workers, students, and healthcare-adjacent tenants. That structural layer does not override the SEIFA drag on economic_strength or entry_point_risk, but it does mean the yield-strategy case for 4131 rests on something more substantive than speculative demand.
PropertyRanker runs twelve scoring criteria across a listing; SEIFA IRSAD feeds directly into three of them, namely economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk, using the confirmed decile 1 reading and raw score of 873 for this postcode. The remaining criteria draw on listing-level inputs such as property type, asking price, and rental comparables, which is why two properties in the same postcode can score differently. For live figures on yield, vacancy tendency, and total score, enter the specific listing into the tool rather than relying on the suburb-level summary.
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