Building approvals, live development applications and major projects across the
Caboolture Hinterland statistical area — covering Moreton Bay and Somerset.
SA3 31303Greater Brisbane17,866 residents2 statistical areas
The PipelineDevelopment Pipeline in Caboolture Hinterland
1 Proposed15applications on record, none of them currently openLatest July 2026See applications ↓
2 Approved260dwellings approved in 2025-26, or 1.29 per 100 existing dwellings a yearOfficial · ABS to August 2026See approvals ↓
3 Building3major projects committed or under construction, 3 of them already on siteForward · completions to 2026+See projects ↓
4 Delivered1,086new addresses verified since the 2021 Census, up 16.2% on the existing baseActual · to August 2026Where it landed ↓
In the 2025-26 financial year the ABS recorded 260 dwelling approvals across Caboolture Hinterland. AreaSearch tracks 3 major projects here that are committed or under construction, the largest being Park Rise Estate at an estimated $35m. On the ground, 1,086 new addresses have been verified since the 2021 Census — growth of 16.2% on the existing address base.
These four figures are deliberately not added together. An application, an
approval and a project under construction are often the same building at three points in its life,
measured by three different bodies with three different lags. Read them as a sequence, not a total.
ApprovedBuilding Approvals in Caboolture Hinterland
What councils and certifiers have formally
permitted — the ABS series, published about four months in arrears.
Approvals are running at 1.29 per 100 existing dwellings a year, well above the Queensland rate of 0.77. Development here remains overwhelmingly detached: houses account for 95% of recent approvals. The mix being approved closely matches what is already standing — 96% houses against 98% of existing homes. The average approved dwelling is valued at $378,000 in construction cost.
For its size, Caboolture Hinterland is adding 1.29 dwellings a year per 100 existing homes — well above the Queensland rate of 0.77 and the national rate of 0.71. That is about 11.5 approvals a year for every 1,000 residents. Building intensity has risen by about 96% across the published series.
Measured against people rather than housing stock, Caboolture Hinterland is approving 15.27 dwellings a year per 1,000 residents — well above the Queensland rate of 8.54. The two rate views differ by household size, which here averages 3.2 people per home. Housing the projection to 2041 would need about 3.71 per 1,000 residents a year.
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing
homes, with Queensland and Australia for comparison. This is the
same activity as the totals view, divided by the size of the area — which is the only
fair way to compare a large SA3 with a small one.
Dwelling approvals a year per 1,000
residents, each year divided by that year’s estimated resident
population (ABS ERP at 30 June), not by today’s — which matters most in fast-growing
areas, where a fixed denominator can understate the early years by half. The most recent periods use the latest published ERP, as the population series runs a year behind approvals. Read it alongside the per-100-homes view: the two differ wherever household size does.
Dwelling units approved each financial year. The dashed line is the five-year average of 205.
How intensively is it building?
Dwelling approvals a year per 100 existing dwellings.
Caboolture Hinterland1.29
Queensland0.77
Australia0.71
What is here, and what is coming
Detached houses as a share of existing homes,
against the share of recent approvals.
Existing homes (2021 Census)98%
Approved, last 5 years96%
Approved, latest year95%
Detached housesApartments, townhouses & other
Approvals mix by year
Share of each year’s approvals.
2023
2024
2025
2026
2025-26
$109m
Residential work approved
2025-26
$33.5m
Commercial work approved
construction cost
$378,000
Average value per approved dwelling
last two years
80
Residents per approval
Supply & DemandIs Caboolture Hinterland Building Enough Homes?
The same approvals, measured against the population
they have to house.
Caboolture Hinterland approves about 11.5 new dwellings a year for every 1,000 residents. Since the 2021 Census it has added 2,969 residents and 1,086 new addresses, roughly one new home per 2.7 extra residents — broadly in step with an average household of 3.2. Housing the population projected for 2041 implies roughly 66 new dwellings a year from here, which puts the recent approval rate of 205 a year comfortably ahead of what the projection needs.
Growth against supply since the Census
People added for every new address verified,
against the size of an average local household.
People added per new home2.7
Average household size3.2
A bar longer than the household average means
the area gained more residents than its new housing could hold, and the extra had to be
absorbed by existing homes.
Approval rate against projected need
Dwellings a year: what is currently being
approved, against what the 2041 population projection implies.
Approved (5-yr average)205
Implied need to 204166
Implied need assumes the average household stays
at today’s 3.2 people. Approvals are not
completions, and not every approval is built.
What is being asked for right now — applications
collected from council planning portals, before any of it reaches the ABS series above.
AreaSearch tracks applications of material scale; routine minor works such as signage and
fencing changes are not carried, so these are not counts of every application lodged. 2
of them carry an AreaSearch analyst assessment — look for the
Analysed marker in the search below.
AreaSearch tracks 15 development applications of material scale lodged with councils across Caboolture Hinterland, the most recent in July 2026. The most common types in the queue are commercial, childcare and retail.
Number of applications by development type. This is the clearest
single picture of what kind of place Caboolture Hinterland is being asked to become. Councils in
Queensland do not publish an estimated cost of works in
their planning feeds, so applications here are counted rather than valued.
Where the applications stand
As reported by the council. Highlighted rows are
applications still in assessment.
Determined11
Accepted2
Approved - Council1
Approved - Private Certifier1
By local government area
Applications on record within each council area that
overlaps Caboolture Hinterland. This counts applications inside this
statistical area only — it is not a total for the council.
Moreton Bay11
Somerset4
Recent applications in Caboolture Hinterland
By the number of dwellings proposed, as lodged. Figures are the applicant’s own and are not verified by AreaSearch.
Multiple dwelling development comprising seven unitsKilcoy · Accepted · lodged Feb 2026
7 dwellings
Change of classification from office to short term accommodationKilcoy · Approved - Private Certifier · lodged Jul 2026
Plumbing and drainage works for the refurbishment of existing gym amenitiesKilcoy · Approved - Council · lodged Feb 2026
Request to Change (Minor) - Material Change of Use - Development Permit for Short Term Accommodation (x2 Cabins)Woodford - D'Aguilar · Determined · lodged Dec 2025
Material Change of Use - Development Permit for Short Term Accommodation (x2 Glamping Tents)Woodford - D'Aguilar · Determined · lodged May 2025
Material Change of Use - Development Permit for Short Term accommodation and Building Works - Development Permit for Dwelling House assessed against…Woodford - D'Aguilar · Determined · lodged Mar 2024
Material Change of Use - Development Permit for OfficeWoodford - D'Aguilar · Determined · lodged Jan 2024
Material Change of Use - Development Permit for Short Term Accommodation and Building Works - Development Permit for Dwelling House - assessed…Woodford - D'Aguilar · Determined · lodged Apr 2023
BuildingFORWARDMajor Projects & Infrastructure in Caboolture Hinterland
What is funded and moving — the projects large enough
to change how Caboolture Hinterland works, ranked by committed value and how close
they are to delivery.
AreaSearch tracks 3 current projects across Caboolture Hinterland. The largest is Park Rise Estate at an estimated $35m, due by 2026. That breaks down as 3 under construction. The pipeline is weighted toward residential development, transport & logistics and national security.
Under construction$35mby 2026
Park Rise Estate
Park Rise Estate is a staged residential master-planned community by Town & Coast Estates delivering 134 residential lots in Woodford. The project provides residential home sites ranging in size with…
Rehabilitation of approximately 2.3 km of the D'Aguilar Highway through Woodford (Archer Street) between Peterson Road and Mary Street. Works include pavement strengthening and full-width resurfacing to…
The new youth detention centre at Woodford will include contemporary design elements to support rehabilitation for young people and improve community safety. Features include 80 beds across two 40-bed campuses…
Approvals PipelineDevelopment Applications in Caboolture Hinterland
Development applications around
Caboolture Hinterland
Development approvals is a new addition to AreaSearch.
We’re actively expanding council coverage and refining the dataset — details and statuses for some councils may be partial. Check back regularly for the latest pipeline.
Applications
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In the local catchment
Est. Value
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Where disclosed
Under Assessment
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Awaiting determination
Determined
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Approved or decided
Approvals pipelineStatus, location, timing and project scale
Loading development applications…
Lodged
Address
Description
Type
Distance
Status
SOURCE: Planning portals and council registers, compiled by AreaSearch. Distance & bearing measured from the suburb midpoint.
ProfessionalPRODevelopment Map for Caboolture Hinterland
Applications and major projects plotted where
they are actually proposed, with the
5 projects AreaSearch tracks here on their own tab — filterable by type, delivery stage,
area and committed value. To search every application on record rather
than this sample, use the section above.
DistributionWhere Development Is Happening in Caboolture Hinterland
Caboolture Hinterland covers 2 statistical areas. Follow any of them through for a full profile of population, housing, sales and amenity at local scale.
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opens per area rather than across the whole of
Caboolture Hinterland.
Caboolture Hinterland spans 2 local government areas — Moreton Bay and Somerset. Applications here are assessed by whichever of those councils the site falls within. AreaSearch publishes development
figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries. That is deliberate: the ABS
issues a separate official building-approvals series for local government areas, and totals
built up from statistical areas would not match it. Reporting at SA3 keeps every figure on this page
reconcilable with the published ABS series.
Local government area
Share of Caboolture Hinterland
Applications on record
Register read to
Moreton Bay
61% of residents
11
December 2025
Somerset
39% of residents
4
July 2026
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Data & MethodSources & Method for Caboolture Hinterland
The four tenses, and what each one can tell you
Proposed — development applications
Collected from council planning portals. The
earliest signal available, but the least certain: many applications are amended,
withdrawn or refused, values are the applicant’s own estimate, and coverage
varies by council. This is a curated set, not the full council feed:
AreaSearch carries applications of material scale and does not track routine minor
works such as signage, fencing or small alterations, so the counts here are lower
than a council’s own total lodgement figure and should not be compared with it. Applications still shown as under assessment more than
18 months after lodgement are reported separately
and kept out of the live-queue figures: the age profile of open applications is
sharply split between a genuine queue under a year old and a long tail of records
councils never closed. Not every state publishes a cost of works — Queensland,
the Northern Territory and the ACT publish none at all — so on those pages
applications are counted rather than valued and no dollar figure is shown
rather than a partial one. Treated here as a snapshot of the current queue only —
AreaSearch does not chart application counts over time, because the history
reflects when each portal was collected rather than when development happened.
Approved — ABS building approvals
The official series, aggregated to SA3 from
ABS building approvals data, currently published to August 2026.
Counts dwelling units approved, not buildings and not completions. The most recent
financial year is annualised from nine months of data wherever it appears and is
labelled as such.
Building — major projects
Projects tracked individually by AreaSearch
from Infrastructure Australia, state infrastructure agencies, developer disclosures
and council records. Values are estimates and delivery dates are targets. Ranked on
this page by committed value and delivery stage rather than by distance.
Delivered — verified new addresses
New residential addresses verified in the national
address register since the 2021 Census. This is the closest available measure of what has
actually been built, though address creation can lead occupation and lags
construction. It is not a completions count.
Boundaries
Caboolture Hinterland is Statistical Area Level 3 31303 in the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (2021 edition), made up of 2 Statistical Areas Level 2.
It has an estimated 17,866 residents, +19.9% since the 2021 Census.
Currency
Measure
Source
To
Dwelling approvals, five-year average
ABS / AreaSearch
July 2026
House share of approvals
ABS / AreaSearch
July 2026
Residents per approval
ABS / AreaSearch
July 2026
Value per approved dwelling
ABS / AreaSearch
July 2026
Commercial work approved
ABS / AreaSearch
July 2026
Verified new addresses since the Census
Address register / AreaSearch
August 2026
Development applications
Council planning portals
July 2026
Major projects
Infrastructure Australia / state agencies / AreaSearch
Ongoing
Figures on this page are read live from the
AreaSearch database each time it loads, so they update as soon as a source does.
Development in Caboolture Hinterland — common questions
How many new dwellings were approved in Caboolture Hinterland?
The ABS recorded 260 dwelling approvals across Caboolture Hinterland in the 2025-26 financial year, against a five-year average of 205 a year.
How many development applications are lodged in Caboolture Hinterland?
AreaSearch tracks 15 development applications of material scale across Caboolture Hinterland — routine minor works such as signage and fencing are not included, so this is not a count of every application lodged. Applications are assessed within the Moreton Bay and Somerset local government areas. The most recent application in our data was lodged in July 2026.
What major projects are planned for Caboolture Hinterland?
AreaSearch tracks 3 current major projects in Caboolture Hinterland, 3 of them under construction. The largest include Park Rise Estate, D'Aguilar Highway Rehabilitation (Woodford) and Woodford Youth Detention Centre.
Which council covers Caboolture Hinterland?
Caboolture Hinterland is an ABS Statistical Area Level 3. It is covered by parts of 2 local government areas — Moreton Bay and Somerset. AreaSearch publishes development figures at ABS statistical boundaries rather than council boundaries, so they reconcile with the official ABS series.
Is Caboolture Hinterland growing faster than the rest of Queensland?
On development approvals, Caboolture Hinterland is adding new dwellings faster than Queensland as a whole — 1.29 approvals per 100 existing dwellings a year against the state figure of 0.77.
How current is this development data?
ABS building approvals are published with a lag of roughly four months; this page carries the series to August 2026. Development applications are collected from council planning portals and refresh continuously, with the most recent application here lodged in July 2026. Major project records are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Each section carries its own currency label so the four are never confused.
Development data is provided for general information.
Estimated values, dwelling counts and delivery dates come from the lodging or delivering party and
are not independently verified by AreaSearch. Confirm anything material with the relevant council
or agency before relying on it.
