Upper Kedron, QLD 4055
Ranked 170th best suburb by locals in Brisbane Region, QLD
Great for
- Parks and recreation
- Clean & green
- Safe and sound
- Schools
- Peace and quiet
Not great for
- No ratings yet
Who lives here?
- Families With Kids
- Professionals
- Retirees
- Fashion Conscious
- Singles
Reviews of Upper Kedron, QLD
"So DAMN faraway from everything!"
The newly established Ellendale area is very safe, pleasant, peaceful and quiet. The park there is well equipped and awesome. The urban landscape is modern where all houses are brand new which gives a nice warm feeling to the area. Most of the area at the estate are quiet small blocks, as expected at a typical new estate development areas. Thankfully, we got a decent size block.
The biggest downside is its location. It feels like we are living in a middle of no where and its too remote. It is extremely far from everything, from the coast, hardware stores, motorways, airport, public hospitals, good schools, Brisbane river and all universities. You name it. Cafe culture is also lacklustre. However, with the new development upcoming at the train station. This should improve.
Public transport is non-existent and it seems that council has forgotten about us.
Driving to the city takes about 25 mins with no traffic at all which is nice. As mentioned in the reviews below, travel to the city takes an excess of an hour or more. There are 2 ways to get to city. Either you take the quickest route via Samford Road or via Waterworks Road. Both options are terrible during peak hour and are heavily congested and clogged up due to thousands of traffic lights and the fact that we are living literally at the edge of the city.
Taking public transport (bus with an interchange at Ferny Grove station) takes more than an hour. Do not bother parking at the train station as you will not find a carpark. Note that there is no direct public transport from the Ellendale estate to the city.
If you are looking to retire here, by all means live here and enjoy the living environment. For families, I would say no. You will have poor access to facilities and fun activities (except for the playground) required for your children.
"Beautiful supportive community, great for families"
Myself and my partner bought a home here 2 years ago, and we absolutely love it.
l community to the city daily for work, and love that I can reach the city in just over 30 mins. The lanes into the city flow well due to having 2 areas in which you can reach the city and a train station at Ferny Grove!
I bought a beautiful home that backs onto beautiful private bush land surround by other young families. There is some amazing Cafes Dsol, Ferny hills Cafe as well as a beautiful family Pizza restaurant at Ferny Hills Tennis court! Samford is also a great day out for brunch/ dinner and is only a 10 minute drive away.
The local community is really supportive of one another, and there is a great community support page run by A local lady Kim you can join for any support you need settling into the suburb.
In terms of parks/ play areas, there is so many to choose from! There is a huge one for older children in the upper kedron elendale community. And the water park within 5 minutes. There is also the hills all abilities playground which is fantastic.
There is a small park with a creek you can often see turtles at.
Lots of young professional couples live here which is great for us as a family.
I honestly just love living here and I’m so glad we decided to buy here!
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Families with kids
"Peaceful and quiet"
Having moved from inner suburb to Upper Kedron, the first thing I noticed was how peaceful and quiet it is. Beautiful natural surrounding. Leisurely 20-30 mins drive to city. Could use more coffee shops and a bit of ambience. Hopefully those will come as the suburb grows.
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Families with kids
"Beautiful, peaceful growing suburb"
It is close enough to city (20 minutes drive non peak hour) yet feels a world away. The new estate is beautifully laid out with green, hilly views. The houses are all new and adhere to strict covenant. Best of all, lots of friendly young families and keen to get to know each other. Well established school and amenities at Ferny Grove is just 5 minutes drive away. Same to Keperra shopping centre. Perhaps the only drawback.. it is quite far from motorways network so you have to add 15-20 minutes to go to the coasts compared to journeys from inner suburbs. We can live with that.
"No School, No Shopping Centre, Worst Public Transport, 35 to 45 Minutes Drive to City"
In Upper Kedron, No School, No Shopping Centre, Very Little Bus Service. Upper Kedron Population is more than 4500 Residents and Still Local Government Ignore this Suburb.
There is still NO State School in Upper Kedron, No Shopping Centre in Upper Kedron, Worst Bus Service in Upper Kedron. Cedar Woods selling Land at very high rates. From UpperKedron it normally takes 40 minutes to City. Local Councillor Steve Toomey is Useless. There is still No Chances for Local School or Local Shopping Centre in Upper Kedron because Brisbane City Council more focused on Develop South Side and Western Suburbs . There is Park But No Lights and No Toilet Facilities in Park.
Who lives here?
- Families with kids
Rentals in Upper Kedron
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"Upper Kedron , great for families , quite and safe"
I have lived in my own place at Upper Kedron for 10 years , my area is more established near Selkirk Rd , houses are generally contemporary on 800 sq mtr blocks , certainly all houses are well kept and house proud , the streets are quite , we are about 12 Klm straight line to city , if you drive to city at peak you will get traffick on Kelvin Grove Road , But this is only weekdays , if heading to city on weekend it’s a leisurely drive to city sights iether iether Kelvin Grove rd or via the Gap etc, Upper Kedron is a green area part of BCC , Ferny Grove train station for city is a 5 minute drive , plenty of shops within 5 Klm to choose from , , Brookside , Arana Hills , Keperra Great Western , plenty of parks and dog options , I live next to a park walkway , never graffiti or undesirables bother coming to the area in my 10 years , as you have to drive to Upper Kedron albeit very short ,recently on news Upper Kedron was noted as one of safest ( no crime ) identified , some areas are new and the blocks are getting smaller as in everywhere so I like older established homes on bigger blocks , Ferny Grove High , And Primary are close , St Andrews Primary all seem like good schools , Samford not far away for short coffee breaks or drive out to country areas , Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast about an hour away , city drive 30 minutes , A good mix I expect of majority owners , some rentals , some pockets a number of DHA Defence Homes , I spent 20 years in the Army and have found Defence members are good neighbours , but the area has a good feel about it when travelling around , I can’t fathom some comments with a negative tone ,these comments seem to be from people who don’t live here ! I am pretty fussy on liveability and I think Upper Kedron is a great place that not to many people understand , house prices at this time mid 500 k to upper 700 k , still a good price to what they are paying to live in Western Sydney ! Great area
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Singles
- Families with kids
"If you are looking for Nightlife and Eating Out look elsewhere, this is a great safe family suburb."
If you are looking for Nightlife and Eating Out look elsewhere, this is a great family suburb, close to the city with great schools, sized blocks and facilities for families.
Great for
- Clean and green
- Good for retirees
- New suburb
- Family Focused
- Safe
Not great for
- No Night Life
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Families with kids
- Retirees
- Tourists
- LGBT+
- Country Lovers
- Trendy & Stylish
"Great Local School, Kids love the Parks and Bike Tracks, Close enough to the city, transport, shops but surrounded by bushland."
Great Local School, Kids love the Parks and Bike Tracks, Close enough to the city, transport, shops but surrounded by bushland. St Andrews school has a great community feel you should attend the annual Fair to get an idea of the friendly population in the area. I am not sure about the commets on bad traffic in the area, maybe around school hours (might add 1-3 minutes in the car) but this is normal accross Brisbane. Great Suburb.
Great for
- Clean and green
- New suburb
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Singles
- Families with kids
- Trendy & Stylish
"After careful thought, we are glad we did not buy here"
We looked at this suburb in 2009 and 2010, since then prices have dropped, the houses we were lookinga t sold for much less than advertised and a few of them are still on the market, one place sold for a big loss. We considered renting as rent would of cost $400 and to pay off a $480k mortgage with rates, insurance etc was double. But after spending 2 weeks in the area by renting a house off stayz we found that the commute to the city in peak hour was horrendous and we were not able to find a daycare within a 10k radius that had a vacancy. The trains were packed and trying to park at the train station was a nightmare, Ferny Grove was the better option to try and park to get the train but from leaving home, driving, parking and getting on the train to the city it took over an hour. Driving took us between 40 and 50 minutes, one day it took over a hour as there was an accident on Samford Road.
We took our very placid Rotty to the off leash park and we were told that dogs of that breed were not welcome, our dog was 12 at the time and had old age arthritis and had never so much as snarked at anyone in his life.
The blocks were too samll for our liking and suburb was nothing special other than being as the crow flys 14 km from the city but it mattered more to us the timeframe it took rather than the distance.
Our experience based on our 2 weeks there and careful review of what was on the market, prices, infrastructure etc detered us from buying and I am very glad that we did do our homework and first spend 2 weeks in the area before we committed because for us, it would have been a big mistake and we would of wasted money by buying then even if we did like the area, which we did not.
Even though the prices are still coming down, this place was not for us after our experience based on what was important to us, which I am sure, is not what everyone would feel.
My suggestion would be for people out of area looking at this place, to look up somewhere you can stay in the actual suburb for a few weeks before you commit, or maybe rent for 6 months, this way you can see for yourself if everything stacks up for your own personal situation.
We did come across a handful of people who were quite rude and overly opinionated in relation to who was movig into the area, there is a lot of retirees around, there is government housing on one side and there is a lot of new development in and around the suburb, blocks were small from the places we looked at in the 500K range, and very sloping with a lot of split level houses which did not leave much flat backyard, but that was the ones we looked at on the side close to the shopping centre and it was all hilly, the other places down the bottom were older style and we did not look at those after a local agent informed us the bottom of Keperra was the unsavoury side.
Great for
- New suburb
- Clean and green
- Good for retirees
Not great for
- Small blocks, terrible resale value
- Horrendous peak hour traffic
- Terrible rental return
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Retirees
- Trendy & Stylish
I agree with a lot of what you have to say, but DHA investment is a long term thing and if you have to sell you limit yourself to a small market of other investors looking at long term, great for self managed super funds though.
Upper kedron is not a 5 miute walk from most parts of Keperra and most people I talked to drive to ferny train station as there is more parking there and they can get a seat on the train. I agree there are daycares, they are all full though which can easily be checked, long waitlists. I actually live further away than 13kms from the city but there is better public transport and less traffic as more than one main road in. I agree property is time in the market but this area is stillig coming back to market values which reflects on the recent sale prices for all to see. With more developments yet to be finalised ad still selling the reality is that the traffic is only going to get worse, this area is significantly dis-advantedged with poor infrastructure of roads and there is no lad left to widen the roads, once developers hook into Samford and the areas around there ( developed selling off huge estates around bunya) then the traffic will just get worse, for a suburb to be 12 km from the city and it takes 40-50 minutes is just plain bad, and if you have to allow 15-20 miutes to get to a train station and fight for a seat then your commute is still going to be an hour at least. I agree it is a lovely looking area, anyone with their own business locally who wants to stay put is laughing as they can take a quick drive on weekends to the city and pay bugger all for a taxi on Saturdays to go to a hundred different restaurants and entertainment venues. But if you haev a young family and you work in the city and you have to battle to organise your commute as well as go on waitlists for daycare or go out of area for daycare and trains then it really is important to keep all this in mind. Nothing worse than being stressed about gettig back before daycare closes and spending more free time in traffic than with your family. Just my opinion based on my current needs. This is an area I would love to retire in, but not for a family with 3 young kids split between junior school and middle school with after school activities and a husband working in the city and me in working in the other direction. Others might be OK with that, just not for me.
The closest train station is Ferny Grove (5min walk), it is a long walk to Keperra (20 min walk over a big hill), It is strange that you lived in the area and were not aware of this. Although I have no issues with traffic in the area if this was a concern this will improve, when the development is completed there is another link going to The Gap also there are plans with council to widen incoming roads to the area, it really astounds me you had issues with traffic. There is also a planned retail/commercial development on Levitt Rd which I guess will improve infrastructure. The suburb is growing but has quality homes and a great neighbourhood plan, normally a good mix for future values.
The problem with people just leaving their opinion of a suburb based on their own current needs is that is not in any way reflective of the Suburb in any way at all. I really am not too sure about upper kedron being ranked the number 1 suburb but so be it.
There is really no reason to go around poorly rating lots of suburbs that you really have no idea about. Upper kedron is a great suburb,. where I did live for a short time when I was in the Army, and has HEAPS going for it. Ihatetraffic has apparently lived everywhere and has not much good to say about anywhere. Daycare centres are full everywhere and popular ones require much waiting. Most of what this person says about the many suburbs they have rated is ill informed and quite frankly, I think the editors of this website should take a close look.
I live in Keperra and my office is at underwood. The longest it has ever taken me to get to the office is just under an hour....ever.... normally around 40 min. I have read the many arguments Ihatetraffic has engaged in and honestly, it's a bit silly.
The reality is, yes, everyone is entitled to their opinion but when you say public transport is bad around here, you are simply ill informed and plain old wrong and if driving and you leave home before 7am it will take 20min from Keperra.
I have friend who lives at Cannon Hill and has the exact same traffic problems during peak hour. Peak hour is Peak hour and is the same throughout the inner suburbs. I don't think you really should be allowed to rate suburbs on this website based on not much more than a hate for traffic. Really? Come on
It is interesting to note that 1. Ihatetraffic changed his name to Blahdeblah when people started to disagree .2. I Blahdablah, formally known as Ihatetraffic changed all his ratings to one star for every suburb that someone questioned his logic 3. Bladehblah hasnt been active since the flurry of reviews on 25+ suburbs from Wollongong to the Sunshine Coast. 4. Maybe the moderators should remove his reviews or at least change the ratings back to there original rating as it is clear they are not what he really thinks.
What do you mean a handful of people who were quite rude and overly opinionated in relation to who was moving into the area?
"Very nice location for families"
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Singles
- Families with kids
- Retirees
- Trendy & Stylish
Interesting review and some points are valid. I must say though this area has a great community feel and families that buy in the area are not looking for a fast re-sale for profit which is why there is stability in the resale values. When you compare the new development stock to existing the new stock does seem to be reasonably priced although when you add the additional cost of construction, time, stress, interest payments while renting this does not suit many families who like the area. Investors normally get into the area through DHA rental properties with guaranteed rent. The rental return on these types of property are quite reasonable considering the stability of the values in the area. I think with a name like ihatetraffic maybe living 13km's from town was not your best decision, although why not take the train which is a 5 minute walk from Upper Kedron? When you walk to the train you will also pass 3 daycare centres and a small convenient Coles shopping centre.