Forest Hill QLD 4342

Living Here

Forest Hill is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 935 people, with a median age of 41. The typical household earns around $1,318 a week, with median rent near $300 a week. Most homes are houses. About 71% of households own their home and 28% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, German. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Lockyer Valley - East statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Forest Hill itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 1 school

  • Forest Hill State School
• 3 cafés & restaurants

  • Caffe Sorella
  • Cheeki Coffee
  • Cafe 4342
• 1 park

  • Forest Hill Place
• 2 hospitals

  • Laidley Hospital
  • Gatton Hospital
• 2 libraries

  • J K Murray Library
  • Laidley Library
• 1 post office

  • Forest Hill
• 2 golf clubs

  • Laidley Golf Club
  • Gatton Jubilee Golf Club
• 2 hardware stores

  • Mitre 10
  • Goodwin & Storr Mitre 10
• 1 place to stay

  • Lake Dyer

Getting around. Train station: Laidley, 5.5 km south-east · Airport: Toowoomba City Aerodrome, 44.3 km 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: 8.5% 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 8.7% · Labour-force participation 58.2%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

48,488 bird observations recorded near Forest Hill — most often seen:

• Pacific Black Duck (2,672)
• Australasian Grebe (2,396)
• Grey Teal (2,369)
• Plumed Whistling-duck (2,356)
• Australian White Ibis (2,348)
• Australasian Purple Swamphen (2,318)
• Dusky Moorhen (2,258)
• Pink-eared Duck (2,117)
• Magpie Goose (2,112)
• Willie Wagtail (1,841)
• Hardhead (1,781)
• Magpie-lark (1,781)
• Noisy Miner (1,739)

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 Forest Hill:

• College View (3.5 km)
• Lawes (3.9 km)
• Crowley Vale (4.7 km)
• Laidley North (4.9 km)
• Laidley Heights (5.2 km)
• Glen Cairn (5.4 km)
• Plainland (6.1 km)
• Laidley (6.6 km)

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