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Brisbane City Council 2017-18 rates rise: See how your suburb fared

Ruth McCosker
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Brisbane property owners will receive a different looking rates bill next quarter with some residents being slugged with a 6.6 per cent increase.

On Wednesday, Lord Mayor Graham Quirk announced an average 2.4 per cent rates increase in the 2017-2018 budget.

Just three of Brisbane's 185 suburbs had the exact average rate rise of 2.4 per cent.

A 2.4 per cent increase at Herston equals $40.50 a year. In Red Hill it means an extra $47.18 a year and, for Wynnum West, 2.4 per cent means an extra $30.08 a year.

 

The suburbs across Brisbane that will have the highest average rates bill in 2017-2018 are:

  1. Chandler ($2892.09)
  2. Chelmer ($2781.60)
  3. Hawthorne ($2712.33)
  4. Ascot ($2676.63)
  5. Burbank ($2535.50)
  6. Ransome ($2478.96)
  7. Hamilton ($2344.09)
  8. Pallara ($2305.92)
  9. Karawatha ($2302.55)
  10. Gumdale ($2275.14)
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There was $1822.73 difference between the highest average rates bill and lowest.

The suburbs with the lowest average rates bill in 2017-2018 are:

  1. Rocklea ($1069.36)
  2. Pinkenba ($1070.64)
  3. Inala ($1073,33)
  4. Mount Crosby ($1080.29)
  5. Karana Downs ($1081.03)
  6. Durack ($1081.33)
  7. Sumner ($1084.76)
  8. Acacia Ridge ($1089)
  9. Fitzgibbon ($1093.61)
  10. Chuwar ($1099.60)

Cr Quirk said Brisbane had a very significant infrastructure build and that was one of the driving forces behind the 2.4 per cent rate increase in 2017-18.

"We have tried to keep that as low as we can, but we believe we are advancing the important needs of the city into the future," Cr Quirk said.

"These things cost money, but we have tried to keep things as low as we can."

Cr Quirk said the rate increase depended on the value of properties.

"The valuation in some areas has risen far faster than other areas and that reflects the per centage increase in terms of those particular areas," he said.

"It's based on the average valuation in that area, so you can look at things in per centage term, but the actual amount that's paid it does reflect the socio-economic area that we're talking about."

Suburbs with highest rates increase:

  1. Seven Hills (6.6 per cent)
  2. Mansfield  (6.4 per cent)
  3. Sunnybank Hills (6.4 per cent)
  4. Wishart (6.4 per cent)
  5. Sherwood (6.3 per cent)
  6. Sunnybank (6.3 per cent)
  7. Wakerley (6.2 per cent)
  8. Upper Mount Gravatt (6 per cent)
  9. Inala (6 per cent)
  10. Rocklea (5.9 per cent)

Opposition leader Peter Cumming said residents had been slugged with a rate rise above the inflation rate to pay for the Quirk administration's incompetence. 

Cr Cumming said the 2.4 per cent average rate hike in the 2017-18 budget brought Cr Quirk's personal rate hike tally to 23.5 per cent since he became mayor six years ago.

"This is despite low interest rates, low wage growth and low inflation," Cr Cumming said.

"Brisbane's March quarter inflation is at 1.8 per cent, with wages growth at lows."

The 10 suburbs that fared best are:

  1. Kangaroo Point (-5.7 per cent)
  2. Cowan Cowan (-4.7 per cent)
  3. Bulwer (-4.4 per cent)
  4. Newstead (-3.7 per cent)
  5. Nudgee Beach (-3.2 per cent)
  6. Karawatha (-2.8 per cent)
  7. Upper Brookfield (-2.1 per cent)
  8. Teneriffe (-2 per cent)
  9. Mount Ommaney (-1.9 per cent)
  10. Geebung (-1.9 per cent)

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