Blue Mountain Heights QLD 4350

Living Here

Blue Mountain Heights is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 988 people, with a median age of 47. The typical household earns around $2,392 a week, with median rent near $400 a week. Most homes are houses. About 93% of households own their home and 7% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 10 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Highfields statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Blue Mountain Heights itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 6 schools

  • Toowoomba Christian College
  • Downlands College
  • Rockville State School
  • Harlaxton State School
  • Highfields State School
  • Toowoomba State High School
• 5 parks

  • Nugent Park
  • Mt Kynoch Park
  • Harlaxton Blocks Park
  • Harlaxton Park
  • Reg Veacock Park
• 2 Catholic churches

  • St Patrick's Cathedral
  • St Thomas More's Catholic Church
• 2 physiotherapists

  • MET Phys
  • Up and Active Physiotherapy
• 2 optometrists

  • Wise Eyes Optometrist
  • Durkin & Black Optometrists
• 7 hospitals

  • Baillie Henderson Hospital
  • St Andrew's Toowoomba Hospital
  • Toowoomba Surgicentre
  • St Vincent's Private Hospital
  • Toowoomba Allied Health
  • Toowoomba Hospice Association
  • Toowoomba Base Hospital
• 1 vet

  • Greencross Vets
• 1 library

  • Highfields Library
• 3 service stations

  • Pearl Energy
  • Mobil
  • BP Highfields
• 2 golf clubs

  • Borneo Barracks Golf Club
  • City Golf Club
• 1 dog park

  • Clearview Steet Park - Dog-off leash area
• 3 hardware stores

  • Harolds
  • Bunnings Warehouse
  • Mitre 10
• 4 mechanics

  • Toowoomba Car Doctors
  • Advanced Service Centre
  • Hopper Knocker Bullbars
  • The Motor Shoppe
• 5 places to stay

  • Northpoint Motel
  • Garden City Backpackers
  • Country Comfort Motel
  • Ambassador on Ruthven
  • Wilsonton Hotel

Getting around. Train station: Toowoomba, 6.2 km south · Railway halt: Willowburn, 3.4 km south-west · Bus interchange: Greyhound Australia, 6.6 km south · Airport: Toowoomba City Aerodrome, 6.3 km south-west.

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Socio-economic Standing

Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.

Tree cover

🌳 Tree canopy: 38.4% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.

Demographics

Unemployment 3% · Labour-force participation 63.3%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

21,132 bird observations recorded near Blue Mountain Heights — most often seen:

• Lewin's Honeyeater (1,156)
• Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (972)
• Eastern Whipbird (936)
• Laughing Kookaburra (916)
• Eastern Yellow Robin (885)
• White-naped Honeyeater (861)
• Grey Fantail (855)
• Noisy Miner (839)
• Pale-headed Rosella (806)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (786)
• Yellow-faced Honeyeater (747)
• Australian Magpie (724)
• White-browed Scrubwren (722)

Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.

Nearby Suburbs

The closest suburbs to Blue Mountain Heights:

• Mount Kynoch (1.3 km)
• Ballard (1.7 km)
• Birnam (3.5 km)
• Harlaxton (3.6 km)
• Cranley (4.3 km)
• Rockville (4.5 km)
• Wilsonton Heights (4.7 km)
• Spring Bluff (4.9 km)

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