Red Hill

Development Activity

Demographics

The median age of 33 runs 7 years below the national figure, the clearest signal of a young-resident base built on students and early-career professionals. University qualifications reach 61.1%, which is 31 points above national, among the highest concentrations you will find. Ancestry leans Anglo, led by English (2,415), Irish (1,109) and Scottish (883), with German (453) following. Overseas-born residents sit at 22.6%, only about 1 point above national, so the suburb is more locally born than its inner-city setting might imply. The top non-English languages are Mandarin (32 speakers), Italian (22) and French (14), small counts that confirm an Anglo-dominant mix. Average household size is 2.4, marginally below national, and Christianity (2,169 residents) is the leading religion ahead of Buddhism (79).

Tenure tilts firmly toward renting: 46.8% rent, 32.9% carry a mortgage and only 20.3% own outright. Outright owners trailing both other groups by a wide margin points to a transient, early-career population rather than long-held family homes, consistent with the 39.4% residential turnover rate. The stock stays detached-led at 65.1% separate houses, with apartments at 27.3% and semi-detached at 7.7%. Three-bedroom dwellings lead at 32.5% and four-plus bedrooms reach 30.3%, while smaller one-bedroom and studio dwellings are just 10.6%.

Community Profile

Economy & Employment

The workforce concentrates in knowledge and care sectors: Professional and Technical services lead at 18.9% (537 workers), Healthcare follows at 17.5% (495) and Education at 11.9% (337), with Public Administration at 7.8% and Construction at 6.4%. By occupation, Professionals (1,449) and Managers (584) dominate, which aligns with the 61.1% university qualification rate sitting 31 points above national. Unemployment is low at 4.6% and the full-time employment rate is 65.3%, while participation reads 69.7%. The 983 residents not in the labour force are largely students, fitting the median age of 33 that runs below national. The professional and healthcare weighting helps explain why household incomes reach the 89.6th percentile despite a renter-heavy, early-career population.

Transport to Work

Car reliance is lower than the national norm: 68.9% drive to work while 12.1% use public transport and 11.8% walk or cycle, helped by the compact 1.62 square kilometre footprint and inner-Brisbane location. Volunteering runs at 20.6% and only 2.9% of residents (163 people) need daily assistance, both consistent with a young, healthy population at a median age of 33. Detailed crime statistics are not available for Red Hill in this dataset, so safety cannot be quantified directly here. No schools are recorded inside the suburb boundary, so families rely on institutions nearby, a practical trade-off in a 3,606-per-square-kilometre setting where land is scarce. The mix of walkable density, low assistance needs and strong volunteering points to an active, engaged resident base.

Population Forecast

Red Hill reads as an established inner-Brisbane suburb absorbing growth through churn rather than expansion, with a residential turnover rate of 39.4% meaning nearly four in ten residents had moved within five years. That mobility is far above what a settled, family-dominated area would show and reflects the young-resident base cycling through rental stock. Development activity supports gradual densification: 36 applications were lodged in the past 12 months across just 1.62 square kilometres, including dwelling extensions and a lot subdivision. At 3,606 residents per square kilometre the suburb is already dense, so new supply tends to be infill and renovation rather than greenfield. With 46.8% of households renting, population change here is driven more by who moves through than by net new construction.

National Ranking iPercentile rank among ~15,000 AU suburbs. 90% = higher than 90% of suburbs

How Red Hill compares to ~15,000 Australian suburbs

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