Brisbane Community Profiles are an easy way to find out about the areas you are scoping.
To get started click on the image below or go to https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/business-in-brisbane/data-and-economic-insights/brisbane-community-profiles
Scroll down the page until you get to: 
Choose the suburbs you are interested in and then the information you need. Then click on Create Report
Your report will include maps, graphs and data about your suburb (and you can generate it as an .xls if you want to play with the data. 
Census Community Profiles give you more information about the place.
Click on the image below or https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/search-by-area
Choose your suburb (make sure you select Suburbs and Localities)
Then choose Quickstats if you only need the basics or Community Profiles.
Then choose the profile you want.
Use the List of Tables and List of Topics tabs to navigate to the information you want.
G35-37 are about housing, G62 is about Travel to work
ABS Table Builder - use this to create and download your own tables from the ABS site.
How to build a basic table - instructions for creating a basic table from the ABS site
Video on accessing ABS data through TableBuilder
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