Highest-income suburbs in Queensland

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   Pullenvale, QLD

   Population 3,276 · Median income $4,149/wk · SEIFA 1180

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   Fig Tree Pocket, QLD

   Population 4,345 · Median income $3,791/wk · SEIFA 1172

   Fig Tree Pocket is a leafy riverside suburb in Brisbane's west, wrapped on three sides by a bend of the Brisbane River about thirteen kilometres from the city centre. The suburb takes its name from the Moreton Bay fig trees that once grew here; one giant specimen, much admired in the 1860s, gave the district its name, though that tree has long since vanished. A small reserve was set aside around it, and a state school opened in 1871. Fig Tree Pocket is best known as the home of Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, established in 1927 and reckoned the oldest and largest koala sanctuary in the world, where visitors meet koalas and other native wildlife. An equestrian club and riverside parkland add to its semi-rural charm.

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   Brookfield (Qld), QLD

   Population 3,640 · Median income $3,778/wk · SEIFA 1165

   Brookfield is a leafy, semi-rural suburb in Brisbane's west, a place of large acreage blocks and bushland about thirteen kilometres from the city centre, where Moggill Creek winds down to meet the Brisbane River. To the north rise the forested hills of the D'Aguilar National Park. The suburb is thought to have been named by Lucinda Brimblecombe for the way the creek runs through the district. Settlement followed the opening of the area to logging and farming in the eighteen-sixties, and a small village grew up around the crossing of Brookfield and Boscombe Roads. Brookfield State School opened in 1871 and marked its hundred-and-fiftieth year in 2021. A general store, hall, an Anglican church and the Brookfield Showground still anchor the village, and the annual Brookfield Show remains a country highlight.

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   Kalinga, QLD

   Population 2,144 · Median income $3,697/wk · SEIFA 1159

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   Brookwater, QLD

   Population 2,902 · Median income $3,637/wk · SEIFA 1152

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   Gumdale, QLD

   Population 2,298 · Median income $3,405/wk · SEIFA 1142

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   Chelmer, QLD

   Population 3,325 · Median income $3,402/wk · SEIFA 1166

   Chelmer is a leafy riverside suburb in Brisbane's south-west, about ten kilometres by road from the city centre and wrapped on three sides by a bend of the Brisbane River. It is known for its fine timber Queenslanders, with their wide verandahs and iron roofs, on quiet low-density streets. The suburb takes its name from the Chelmer railway station, named in 1881 most likely after the Chelmer River in Essex, England, having earlier been called Oxley Point and then Riverton. The Walter Taylor Bridge, privately built and opened in 1936, carries traffic across the river to neighbouring Indooroopilly. Perhaps the suburb's best-loved feature is Laurel Avenue, voted Brisbane's best street in 1999, where arching rows of century-old camphor laurels shade a run of gracious heritage homes.

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   Bunya, QLD

   Population 1,968 · Median income $3,402/wk · SEIFA 1135

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   Bardon, QLD

   Population 10,153 · Median income $3,399/wk · SEIFA 1162

   Bardon is a leafy western suburb of Brisbane, about six kilometres north-west of the city and nestled into the foothills of Mount Coot-tha. Its hilly terrain of ridges and steep gullies, drained by Ithaca Creek, gives many streets sweeping views and makes some of them among the city's steepest. The area was originally known as Upper Paddington until the Ithaca Town Council renamed it in 1925 after Bardon, a villa built in 1863 by Joshua Jeays and named for Bardon Hill in his native Leicestershire. The house survives as part of a local Catholic school. The neighbouring pocket of Rainworth recalls the home of the explorer and surveyor-general Augustus Charles Gregory. Today Bardon is prized for its heritage timber Queenslanders, its bushland fringe and its quiet, family-friendly streets.

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    Grange (Qld), QLD

    Population 4,615 · Median income $3,278/wk · SEIFA 1150

    Grange, sometimes called The Grange, is a leafy, established suburb in Brisbane's inner north, a short distance from the city centre on the southern side of Kedron Brook. Before British settlement the area was open grassland and lightly wooded plains, and in the eighteen-sixties a tannery was established beside the brook by the fellmonger T.K. Peate. Suburban development began in 1903 when Peate's land was subdivided as the Grange Estate, and the suburb takes its name from his property; Grange is believed to be an Old English word meaning a granary. A tram service reached the area in the late nineteen-twenties. Today Grange is a quiet residential pocket with The Pinnacle rising to the west and a scatter of local parks and reserves, including Grange Forest Park and Lanham Park.

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    Samford Valley, QLD

    Population 3,208 · Median income $3,250/wk · SEIFA 1139

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    Highvale, QLD

    Population 1,979 · Median income $3,143/wk · SEIFA 1137

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    Camp Hill, QLD

    Population 12,254 · Median income $3,085/wk · SEIFA 1135

    Camp Hill is a leafy, hilly residential suburb of Brisbane, set about six kilometres south-east of the city centre in the City of Brisbane. It was first known as Schick's Hill, after Peter Schick, who with a partner bought land here in 1859, but the present name took over by the eighteen-nineties. It recalls the Four Mile Camp, a resting place where drovers and travellers on the road to Cleveland once stopped for its forage and permanent water holes. Early settlers were farmers, many of German background, and from 1912 the Belmont steam tramway threaded through the district. Today Camp Hill is known for its old Queenslander homes, the boutique shops and cafes along Old Cleveland Road, and Whites Hill Reserve, whose bushland tracks and lookout offer views over Brisbane.

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    Moranbah, QLD

    Population 9,425 · Median income $3,079/wk · SEIFA 998

    Moranbah is a planned mining town in the Bowen Basin of central Queensland, in the Isaac Region about 195 kilometres south-west of the coastal city of Mackay. It was established in 1969 and built up rapidly through the 1970s by the Utah Development Company to house workers for the surrounding coalfields, with its first state school opening in 1971. Today Moranbah is one of the country's most important coal towns, serving a cluster of large open-cut and underground mines — among them Peak Downs, Goonyella Riverside and Grosvenor — that ship metallurgical coal to the coast for export. Around 9,400 people live in the town, many connected to the mining industry.

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    Rocky Point (Weipa - Qld), QLD

    Population 2,214 · Median income $3,055/wk · SEIFA 1032

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    Hawthorne, QLD

    Population 5,090 · Median income $3,029/wk · SEIFA 1141

    Hawthorne is a leafy riverside suburb on the eastern reach of the Brisbane River, about six and a half kilometres by road from the city centre. Two stories explain its name: that the butcher William Baynes called it after Hawthorn in Melbourne, where he had lived, or that he planted hedges of hawthorn here in the mid-nineteenth century. It began as farmland in the 1860s and was gradually carved into housing estates as ferry and tram services drew Brisbane outward. Overlooking the river stands Lourdes Hill College, a girls school opened by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 1916. The suburb is perhaps best loved for the Hawthorne Cinema, a picture theatre dating from the 1940s whose sweeping curved screen is among the largest in the city.

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    Healy, QLD

    Population 1,824 · Median income $3,024/wk · SEIFA 1036

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    Mount Crosby, QLD

    Population 1,860 · Median income $2,993/wk · SEIFA 1109

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    Hendra, QLD

    Population 4,914 · Median income $2,989/wk · SEIFA 1143

    Hendra is a leafy, established suburb in Brisbane's north-east, a short distance from the city centre, where many streets are lined with jacaranda and poinciana trees that colour the area in spring and summer. Its unusual name comes from the railway station and is drawn from a Cornish word for an old hamlet or town. Once a farming district known for citrus, grapes and pineapples, Hendra is now a settled residential pocket framed by the Ascot and Doomben racecourses. Kedron Brook runs along its edge, with walking and cycling paths following the watercourse through neighbouring suburbs, while T.C. Beirne Park and other local reserves give families room to spread out. The Doomben Racecourse anchors the suburb's long association with thoroughbred racing and weekend crowds.

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    Mackenzie (Brisbane - Qld), QLD

    Population 2,336 · Median income $2,988/wk · SEIFA 1109

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    Upper Kedron, QLD

    Population 5,800 · Median income $2,980/wk · SEIFA 1120

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    Wilston, QLD

    Population 4,110 · Median income $2,971/wk · SEIFA 1141

    Wilston is an established residential suburb on the northern side of Brisbane, about five kilometres by road from the city centre. It grew up around Wilston House, the home built in the 1870s for the Honourable William Wilson, who had settled in the district in 1868 and named the house after his birthplace in Ireland. In 1884 the surrounding land passed to the businessman John Stevenson, who subdivided it for housing. The suburb keeps a number of heritage-listed buildings, among them the Wilston Methodist Memorial Church on Kedron Brook Road. Its small commercial heart is Wilston Village, a cluster of shops and cafes on the same road, and a railway station links the suburb to the wider Citytrain network. Leafy reserves such as Eildon Hill dot the streets.

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    Chapel Hill (Qld), QLD

    Population 10,511 · Median income $2,969/wk · SEIFA 1141

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    Wakerley, QLD

    Population 8,718 · Median income $2,952/wk · SEIFA 1120

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    Cashmere, QLD

    Population 4,970 · Median income $2,950/wk · SEIFA 1105

Rankings are editorial, based on the public data shown on each suburb page. See our methodology.