Riverhills

Not to be confused with Riverview.

Riverhills is a residential suburb in the City of Brisbane. It's home to 4,042 people as of the 2016 census.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Riverhills recorded a population of 4,042 people, 50.6% female and 49.4% male. The median age of the Riverhills population was 34 years, 4 years below the national median. 66.7% of people living in Riverhills were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England (4.6%), New Zealand (4.4%), South Africa (1.7%), Vietnam (1.6%) and Scotland (1.0%).

Riverhills is a predominantly family suburb with 77.9% of households being family households. Of these family households, 63.5% have children. The other households are single-person households (19.2%) and group households (2.9%).

Employment and wealth
In 2016, Riverhills had an unemployment rate of 6.7%, 0.2% lower than the national rate. The top industries were hospitals (except psychiatric hospitals) (4.4%), primary education (3.3%), State Government administration (3.2%), higher education (3.1%) and computer system design and related services (2.3%).

The weekly median household income was $1,742 (annually $90,584) and the weekly median personal income was $826 (annually $42,952).

Real estate
When the 2016 census was held, the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,918 and median weekly rent was $395.

At the time, Riverhills was home to 1,584 private dwellings. 94.4% of the dwellings were occupied. Of these occupied dwellings, 87.7% were separate houses and 12.1% were semi-detached houses (such as townhouses); there were no apartments. The average number of a dwelling's bedrooms was 3.4 and the average number of people in a Riverhills household was 2.7.