Cheapest suburbs to live in Logan 2026
To save you reading: the cheapest suburb to run in Logan is Underwood at about $10,604 a year, while the most expensive runs to about $13,923. That's a $3,319 gap within a single council, and it comes down almost entirely to commute distance, not council rates. Here's every Logan suburb ranked by what it actually costs to live in.
Across 64 Logan suburbs the median annual running cost is $13,352. Underwood is the cheapest at $10,645 and Monarch Glen the dearest at $14,036, a spread of $3,391. Every suburb pays the same Logan City Council rate of $1,699, so the spread comes from commute distance and the estimated insurance band, not from rates.
Key statistics
- Logan suburbs ranked
- 64
- Median
- $13,352
- Cheapest
- $10,645 (Underwood)
- Dearest
- $14,036 (Monarch Glen)
- Council rate, all suburbs
- $1,699
Methodology
Queensland council figures are the minimum residential general rate for an owner-occupied principal place of residence, a floor rather than a typical bill. The driving commute is modelled at the ATO 2026-27 rate of 91 cents per kilometre, with trip frequency tapering as distance rises, and is a commute estimate rather than total household driving. Building insurance and body corporate are AI-estimated and marked as estimates wherever they appear. Water and sewerage is the 2025-26 figure for the relevant utility. No property prices, land valuations or capital growth figures appear anywhere on SuburbCost. Suburbs carrying a neighbouring council's rate or a neighbouring utility's water figure are excluded, because the ends of a ranking are where a stand-in figure becomes a published error.
The short version
- Cheapest Logan suburb to run: Underwood, about $10,604 a year
- Most expensive: Monarch Glen, about $13,923 a year
- Logan's 2026-27 minimum residential rate: about $1,699, up 12.4%
- Commute is the biggest swing between Logan suburbs, not rates
How this is measured
This ranks Logan suburbs by true annual running cost: council rates, water and sewerage, commute, and building insurance. It's the recurring cost of living in each suburb, and it deliberately leaves out the purchase price. Logan is one of Queensland's fastest-growing council areas, and its rates rose faster than Brisbane's this year, so the running-cost picture is worth looking at properly.
Cheapest Logan suburbs to run, ranked
All figures are for houses with a driving commute. Public transport changes the picture, and you can toggle it on any suburb page.
| Rank | Suburb | Council | Commute | Total/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Underwood | $1,699 | $4,797 | $10,645 |
| 2 | Woodridge | $1,699 | $5,135 | $10,783 |
| 3 | Rochedale South | $1,699 | $4,836 | $10,884 |
| 4 | Logan Central | $1,699 | $5,412 | $11,260 |
| 5 | Regents Park | $1,699 | $5,741 | $11,439 |
| 6 | Hillcrest | $1,699 | $5,589 | $11,437 |
| 7 | Marsden | $1,699 | $5,856 | $11,604 |
| 8 | Crestmead | $1,699 | $6,006 | $11,704 |
| 64 | Monarch Glen (dearest) | $1,699 | $6,988 | $14,036 |
Every suburb links through to its full cost breakdown. The pattern: the suburbs closer to rail and services run cheaper, and the outer ones pay for it in commute.
Why rates aren't the story in Logan
Logan's rates got attention this year because they rose faster than Brisbane's. But the minimum residential rate is the same across the whole council, so it doesn't explain why one Logan suburb costs $3,319 more than another to live in. That gap is commute, and to a lesser extent insurance. If you're choosing between Logan suburbs, the rate is the constant. The commute is the variable that actually decides your annual cost.
Over ten years at 3% cost growth, that $3,319 gap compounds to about $38,000. Put another way, choosing the cheaper end of Logan is worth roughly $38,000 off the purchase price of the dearer one, on running costs alone. That is the number no listing shows you.
Compare any two Logan suburbs
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Data sources
Council rates: Logan City Council 2026-27 minimum residential general rate. Water: Queensland Urban Utilities 2025-26. Commute: ATO cents per kilometre by distance to Brisbane CBD, Translink fares for public transport. Insurance: AI-estimated from flood and fire risk, disclosed as an estimate. Purchase prices not included. For comparison only, not financial advice.
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