Placid Hills QLD 4343

Living Here

Placid Hills is a suburb of Queensland, home to about 796 people, with a median age of 43. The typical household earns around $1,965 a week, with median rent near $350 a week. Most homes are houses. About 91% of households own their home and 6% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, German. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

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

Getting Around & Local Services

• 6 schools

  • Our Lady of Good Counsel Primary School
  • Peace Lutheran Primary School
  • Tent Hill Lower State School
  • Grantham State School
  • Gatton State School
  • Lockyer District High School
• 1 park

  • Gatton Lions Park
• 1 hospital

  • Gatton Hospital
• 1 library

  • Gatton Library
• 2 service stations

  • Grantham Fuels
  • Shell
• 1 gym

  • Gatton Racecourse
• 1 golf club

  • Gatton Jubilee Golf Club
• 1 hardware store

  • Mitre 10 - Gatton
• 4 places to stay

  • Room Motels
  • Gatton View Hotel
  • Royal Hotel
  • Gatton Caravan Park

Getting around. Train station: Gatton, 4 km east · Airport: Toowoomba City Aerodrome, 31.5 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: 12.4% 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 65.6%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

26,988 bird observations recorded near Placid Hills — most often seen:

• Pacific Black Duck (1,361)
• Australian White Ibis (1,296)
• Australasian Grebe (1,273)
• Dusky Moorhen (1,162)
• Australasian Purple Swamphen (1,160)
• Eurasian Coot (1,112)
• Magpie-lark (1,064)
• Noisy Miner (1,059)
• Little Black Cormorant (1,030)
• Hardhead (1,001)
• Australasian Darter (991)
• Grey Teal (989)
• Little Pied Cormorant (978)

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 Placid Hills:

• Ringwood (3.1 km)
• Gatton (4.2 km)
• Grantham (4.3 km)
• Lower Tenthill (4.8 km)
• Winwill (6.1 km)
• Veradilla (6.3 km)
• Vinegar Hill (6.5 km)
• Woodlands (7 km)

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