1,590 of South Brisbane's 5,808 homes are lived in by the people who own them: 27 in every 100, against 63 across Queensland. Doorstep is the neighbourhood app made for them.Download freeQuestions
| South Brisbane | 27% | 1,590 | |
| Queensland | 63% | 1,186,744 | |
| Australia | 66% | 6,114,780 |
ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, tenure of occupied private dwellings, South Brisbane (SAL). These are all homes in the suburb, not Doorstep members.
Only 9% of South Brisbane's owner-occupied homes are separate houses, so most owners here share a wall, a driveway or a body corporate. Your neighbours are literally next door, and it helps to know them.
Median age 29. South Brisbane skews younger: first homes, first renovations, and a lot of people still working out who's who on the street.
Owners still paying it off are often the newer faces in South Brisbane: the households asking who does good gutters, where the kids play weekend sport, and whether anyone has a ladder long enough for the second storey.
Give away what you don't need, borrow what you need once, and ask the street a question. Posts come from people who live around South Brisbane.
A national gallery of kitchens, gardens and makeovers people are proud of. Show off yours, or steal ideas for the next one.
Ask who your neighbours would call, and find local businesses rated only by people who live nearby. Businesses in South Brisbane →
A free listing for trades, cafés and shops that serve South Brisbane, shown to the members who live nearby.
Doorstep Dating is a separate side of the app for meeting other homeowners. It's off until you switch it on.
1,590 of South Brisbane's 5,808 occupied homes were owner-occupied at the 2021 Census (27%): 750 owned outright and 840 with a mortgage. Across Queensland the figure is 63%.
Yes. Doorstep works in every Australian suburb: you join by typing your home suburb, and South Brisbane is one of them. Some streets are quieter than others while the area fills up.
No. Doorstep only stores the name of your suburb. There's no GPS involved, and nobody sees your street or address.
Free on the App Store. Type your suburb when you join; nobody ever sees your address.