Highvale QLD 4520

Living Here

Highvale is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 1,979 people, with a median age of 44. The typical household earns around $3,143 a week, with median rent near $425 a week. Most homes are houses. About 94% of households own their home and 4% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. 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 Samford Valley statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Highvale itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 2 schools

  • Samford Valley Steiner School
  • Mount Nebo State School
• 5 parks

  • Edward Louden Park
  • Denis Goodwin Reserve
  • Westbourne Drive Park
  • Uralba Park
  • Hope Rive Park
• 1 Catholic church

  • Sacred Heart Catholic Church
• 2 physiotherapists

  • Enable Health Clinic
  • Pilates Lifestyle & Wellbeing
• 1 golf club

  • Samford Valley Golf and Country Club
• 1 hardware store

  • Mower Mart Samford

Getting around. Train station: Ferny Grove, 11.4 km east · Airport: Brisbane Airport, 29.7 km east.

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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: 68.5% 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 4.5% · Labour-force participation 67.5%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

71,851 bird observations recorded near Highvale — most often seen:

• Lewin's Honeyeater (3,652)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (3,350)
• Torresian Crow (3,229)
• Laughing Kookaburra (3,107)
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (3,069)
• Eastern Whipbird (3,023)
• Noisy Miner (2,821)
• Willie Wagtail (2,662)
• Grey Shrike-thrush (2,580)
• Pied Butcherbird (2,569)
• Australian Magpie (2,541)
• Grey Butcherbird (2,485)
• Australasian Figbird (2,483)

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 Highvale:

• Wights Mountain (2.9 km)
• Jollys Lookout (3.9 km)
• Mount Nebo (4.3 km)
• Samford Valley (4.4 km)
• Cedar Creek (5.1 km)
• Camp Mountain (6.1 km)
• Samford Village (6.4 km)
• Yugar (6.5 km)

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