Highfields QLD 4352
Highfields sits 139 km from Brisbane CBD in Queensland, around 1 hour 50 minutes by car. Census data records 8,568 residents with a median age of 45 and a median household income of $103,688 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the top 20% nationally. Population grew 5.4% from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $410 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,842. The area shows no recorded bushfire exposure. Of 4 schools within the suburb boundary, 2 rank above the state average, and walkability is low.
Is Highfields a good suburb?
Highfields scores a A (74/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on schools and community.
Above the state average
4 schools · 2 above peer schools · Top 13% in QLD
Some car dependence
Walkability 35/100 · 139.3 km · 110 min drive to Brisbane
Median available
Median $1.08M
Moderate crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 40/100
Very advantaged
SEIFA decile 9/10 · median age 45 · 8,568 residents
Liveability Rating
74 / 100 · Ranked #115 in QLDEach bar is Highfields's rank among QLD suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
Flood data for Queensland covers only the areas mapped there — a blank here is not an all-clear.
How do you rate the liveability in Highfields?
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Our score
74 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataHighfields's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $1.08 million, roughly 30% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$1,081,500
11% above its 3 neighbours (median $970,000)
Based on 227 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 42 days — median across 137 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 22 sales $919K
- 4 bed 163 sales $1.05M
- 5 bed 37 sales $1.27M
Units
$647,000
Based on only 7 sales — small sample, take as indicative.
Typically sold in 84 days — median across 4 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Highfields are currently listed at around $1.2 million on average. Based on 107 houses listed in the past six months.
$1.2M
107 houses listed in the last 6 months.
109 of the suburb's 2,990 dwellings (3.6%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Highfields rent for around $755 a week on average, based on 39 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
Houses
$755/wk
39 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Units
$550/wk
4 units advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
43 rentals advertised against an estimated 431 rented homes (10.0%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- All rentals
- $710/wk
- 43 bonds
- +54% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies. Change since 2021 compares the median of the first four quarters with the last four. Asking rents above come from advertised listings.
Rental affordability
June quarter 202591 Unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 33% of its income on the median rent in postcode 4352.
SGS Rental Affordability Index: a score of 100 means rent takes 30% of income, the usual housing-stress line; lower scores are less affordable. "Region" is the capital city or the rest of the state.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$755/week ($39,000 a year) on a $1.2 million median
Not enough unit sales and rentals in the window to calculate a yield.
Gross yield — before strata, rates, management, insurance and vacancy. Calculated from median advertised rents and median asking prices over the last 6 months. How we calculate.
Is Highfields safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Highfields sits in the moderate band, with 53 incidents recorded in 2025 — down roughly 18% on the prior year.
53 offences
18.5% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2020–202424 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital
Where they happened
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the suburb carries people passing through; this is not a measure of risk to residents. Roads are listed with 3 or more serious crashes.
Schools
Four schools serve Highfields, and the cohort skews above peer-suburb performance. Highfields State School and Highfields State Secondary College lead the pack.
- • 3,305 students across 4 schools (avg 826)
- • Sectors: 2 Government, 1 Catholic, 1 Independent
- • ICSEA 1001-1066, median 1042 (above the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Mary MacKillop Catholic College (1,047 students)
Primary
Secondary
Combined
Walkability
Highfields is car-dependent on foot — at 35/100, most errands require a car. Within the suburb there are 3 supermarkets, 16 parks and 6 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Highfields.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 34.0 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 34.2 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 0.0 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 11.8 hours
Scheduled service only, based on the 21 October 2026 timetable. Reliability (delays, cancellations) not measured.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Highfields.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 54%
- Premises covered
- 3,935
NBN Co fixed-line and fixed-wireless premises, as at 30 December 2025. Higher-quality technologies (full fibre) score above copper, wireless, and satellite. Actual speeds depend on your plan.
Amenities
Toowoomba: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this suburb alone — this suburb's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 24 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 5 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Highfields is home to about 8,600 residents, with a median age of 45, a touch above the national 38. Median household income runs at $104,000 a year, with unemployment at 3.4%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
8,568
Median Age
45
Median Household Income
$103,688/yr
Census Median Rent
$410/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,842/mo
Avg Household Size
2.8
Median Personal Income
$41,496/yr
Unemployment Rate
3.4%
Unoccupied Dwellings
6.0%
Total Dwellings
2,990
Owner-Occupier Rate
85.6%
Houses
96.2%
Rental Stress
20.6%
Mortgage Stress
21.3%
Work From Home
11.3%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 85.8%
- English Spoken at Home
- 94.1%
- Employment Rate
- 59.4%
- Completed Year 12
- 43.2%
Occupations
Religion
Country of Birth (overseas)
Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents.
When They Arrived
Share of all residents by the year they arrived in Australia. Periods cover different numbers of years, so compare the shape rather than the bar widths.
66 residents (0.8%) arrived since 2016. Australia’s borders were closed to most arrivals from March 2020, so the last two years of that period are much smaller than the ones before them — nationally 260,799 people arrived in 2019 against 28,521 in 2021.
Where New Residents Came From
Where residents aged five and over lived five years before the 2021 Census, for those who lived somewhere else.
5.9% of residents (480) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Brisbane (366).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 8,183 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Languages Spoken at Home
Top languages other than English, as a share of all residents.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
1% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (31 of 4,113).
City centre: the ABS area around each capital's CBD, such as Sydney Inner City or Perth City (which takes in Subiaco and Leederville). 2021 Census place of work.
Local Jobs
People who work in this suburb against employed people who live here, 2021 Census.
About 1,730 people work here; 4,113 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.4 jobs per working resident. At least 53% of employed residents must work outside the suburb.
Counts are by place of work and place of usual residence. The ABS counts jobs in zones; where a zone spans several places, its jobs are shared out by land use. The ABS also adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $1,618 a year through Toowoomba based on 2025 figures.
Building Approvals: Toowoomba
In the year to August 2026, 1,513 new dwellings were approved across Toowoomba. That mix is 1,098 houses and 415 units. Approvals are down 24.6% on the same period a year earlier.
New Homes Planned
New homes planned in this suburb: 1,923 to 7,030 homes
- Within 2 years 399 to 1,175 homes
- In 2 to 5 years 649 to 2,800 homes
- In 5 to 10 years 155 to 615 homes
- No timeframe set 720 to 2,440 homes
Land the Queensland Government's residential land supply study identifies for future housing (108 parcels), by when it expects lots to be registered. Yields are published in ranges, so these are too.
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage
The Aboriginal party for this area is Western Wakka Wakka People.
Under Queensland's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 the Aboriginal party for an area follows native title. No native title claim is currently registered here, so the last registered claimant remains the Aboriginal party.
Air Quality
CLEANPM2.5 averaged 4.9 µg/m³ in 2025 — below the WHO 2021 annual guideline (5 µg/m³). 2 days exceeded the daily threshold of 25 µg/m³.
PM10 averaged 12 µg/m³. Days over the limit in 2025: PM10 0.
From the Toowoomba (South West Queensland) monitoring station, 7.9 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Oakey Aero, 21.5 kmModerate rainfall — hot summers, cold winters with occasional frost.
- Elevation
- 640 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Annual rainfall
- 577 mm
- 54 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 31.0°C
- 17 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 3.9°C
- 26 frost days ≤ 0°C
Elevation is the ground at the suburb centre, from Geoscience Australia's National Digital Elevation Model. Approximate — it reads high in dense built-up areas. It is a measure of height above sea level and not an indicator of flood risk, which depends on height above nearby waterways.
Industrial Emissions Nearby
2 facilities within 5 km- 4.7 kmSewerage and Drainage ServicesTop reported: Total Nitrogen · Chlorine & compounds · Total Phosphorus
- 5.0 kmOther Electricity GenerationTop reported: Oxides of Nitrogen · Sulfur dioxide · Total Volatile Organic Compounds
EV adoption
In postcode 4352, 181 of 30,100 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.3% (689 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 2.9%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 4352, 9,311 rooftop-solar systems totalling 64.7 MW have been installed since 2001, against 11,047 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 597 went up in the last year.
Counts every system certified since 2001, so a roof re-fitted with a newer system is counted twice, and small commercial systems are included alongside houses — useful for comparing postcodes, not an estimate of how many homes have working panels today.
2026 covers part of the year only, to 2026-07.
First Home Owner Grant
FY2026-27$30,000 for new homes priced up to $750,000.
$30,000 for contracts signed on or after 20 November 2023, with no end date. IT DID NOT REVERT TO $15,000: the tier was due to end 30 June 2026 and the 2026-27 Queensland Budget (23 June 2026) continued it for contracts signed from 1 July 2026. This file carried a "due to revert" note until 2026-09-18 — it was never true, and a note predicting a change is not the same as a change. Cap is "less than $750,000" including land and contract variations — less than, not up to. New homes only: "There are no home owner grants for established homes."
Mortgage repayments
2 mortgage brokers are registered in this suburb, 10 across postcode 4352.
Transfer duty at the owner-occupier rate, and it excludes first home buyer concessions — those can cut it substantially or remove it entirely. Excludes legal, inspection and lender fees. Check with Queensland Revenue Office
The First Home Owner Grant applies to newly built homes only, so it isn't available on an established purchase. A first home buyer building or buying new under $750,000 may qualify for $30,000 — see what qualifies with Queensland Revenue Office.
At $1,081,500 this is $331,500 above the $750,000 First Home Owner Grant cap. A first home buyer may qualify for $30,000 on a newly built home — check eligibility with Queensland Revenue Office.
A deposit under 20% usually attracts Lenders Mortgage Insurance, which this doesn't include.
Principal and interest over 30 years, fixed rate. Excludes fees, offset, redraw and LMI. Default rate is the median comparison rate across 1788 advertised products as at 2026-10-26 — indicative only, and not an offer. Your rate depends on the lender, your deposit and your circumstances. Not financial advice.
Federal Electorate
Currently held by Garth Hamilton Liberal National Party of Queensland
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Garth Hamilton | 36.6% | 63.4% | +0.8 |
| 2022 | Garth Hamilton | 35.8% | 64.2% | -6.3 |
| 2019 | John Mcveigh | 29.5% | 70.5% | +5.2 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact suburb's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Trevor Watts Liberal National Party of Queensland
Next state election: 28 October 2028.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Trevor Watts LNP | 66.5% |
| 2020 | Trevor Watts LNP | 57.3% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2017, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this suburb's voters. Results: Electoral Commission of Queensland.
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- #9 in Toowoomba's most educated suburbs
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- #11 in Toowoomba suburbs that added the most residents, 2016-2021
- #12 in Toowoomba suburbs with the largest Muslim community
- #13 in Toowoomba suburbs where the most residents moved from a capital city
- #14 in Toowoomba suburbs with the largest Hindu community
- #14 in Toowoomba suburbs with the best public transport
- #15 in Toowoomba suburbs with the most parkland nearby
- #15 in Toowoomba suburbs where young families live
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Common questions about Highfields
Is Highfields a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Highfields is moderate (40/100, ranked against other QLD suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Highfields?
Highfields has no recorded bushfire history. These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Highfields a good place to live?
Highfields has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of A (74/100), ranked against other QLD suburbs on school quality (25%), safety (25%), SEIFA socio-economic advantage (25%), walkability (15%) and CBD access (10%). Whether it suits you depends on what you weigh — each of those is on this page.
What is the population of Highfields?
Highfields, QLD had a population of 8,568 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Highfields, QLD?
The postcode for Highfields, QLD is 4352.
How far is Highfields from Brisbane?
Highfields is 139 km from Brisbane CBD by road, about 110 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Highfields?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Highfields was $103,688 a year. It is the most recent suburb-level income figure until 2026 Census results are released in 2027.
What is the median weekly rent in Highfields?
The median advertised rent in Highfields is $755 a week for houses (39 listings) and $550 a week for units (4 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Highfields?
The median age of residents in Highfields was 45 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Highfields?
There are 4 schools inside the Highfields boundary: 2 above and 2 at similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Highfields walkable?
Highfields scores 35/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it car-dependent. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
What is the air quality in Highfields?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Highfields (Toowoomba (South West Queensland)) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 4.9 µg/m³ and PM10 of 12.0 µg/m³. That puts Highfields below the WHO annual guideline of 5 µg/m³.
What is the weather like in Highfields?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Highfields, Oakey Aero (21.5 km away), summer days average 31°C, winter nights 3.9°C, 577 mm of rain a year over 54 rainy days, and 17 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Highfields?
First-home buyers in QLD may be eligible for $30,000 towards new homes with a purchase price up to $750,000. The grant is administered by Queensland Revenue Office; confirm current eligibility before signing a contract — state rules and amounts can change.
What council does Highfields belong to?
Highfields sits within the Toowoomba local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Highfields?
The average residential rates bill through Toowoomba is $1,618 a year (2025). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Highfields?
Across Toowoomba, 1,513 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's down 24.6% on the same period a year earlier. These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.
Which federal electorate is Highfields in?
Highfields sits within the federal Division of Groom, currently held by Garth Hamilton (Liberal National Party of Queensland).
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Data freshness
- Census · 2021
- Median sale prices · Oct 2026
- For-sale & rental market · Oct 2026
- Council rates · FY 2025–26
- Building approvals · Aug 2026
- Schools · 2025
- Public transport · Oct 2026
- NBN connectivity · Dec 2025
- Crime · 2025
- Road crashes · 2020–2024
- Air quality · 2025
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- State electorate · 2024
- Amenities · Sep 2026
- Health & emergency facilities · Sep 2026
- Industrial emissions (NPI) · 2024/2025
- Coastal erosion · 1988–2025
- Aircraft noise · 2024
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