PROPERTY X-RAY
Riverhills · 4074 · Brisbane

Riverhills, X‑rayed.

What the suburb is, and what it is becoming. The prices, what is being approved, the crime mix, the schools. By the numbers, then check any address on the street.

Each pin is a real development application near these streets, 22 in the last 12 months. More pins, more change.
Supply & demand · right now

The market reads tight, in the buyer's favour.

Buyer signal: favourable
For sale now
19
Active listings
Listings climbing. More properties chasing the same buyers.
of land parcels
1.2%
Stock on market
Below the balanced band. Little choice, low listing pressure.
to go under offer
30days
Median days on market · houses
A steady pace to sell a house, neither hot nor cold. From 2 recorded house sales.
last 90 days
0
Asking-price cuts
No asking-price cuts logged. A firm market on price.
Source: PXR listings & council parcel records · as at Aug 2026
The counts (listings, stock, cuts) include every property type: houses, townhouses, units, land. Days on market is houses only. Active = listed and not yet delisted. Stock on market = active listings divided by all land parcels in the suburb (parcels are lots, not dwellings, so read it as a proxy).
Buyer-favourable Caution: softening / oversupply
Riverhills in four numbers

What is the median house price in Riverhills? By our own numbers.

Three years of house sales, the development pipeline, and the rent it returns.

+28%
House median
2023 to 2025
PXR sales
As at Jan 2026
Median pace
2026 (2 sales)
PXR sales
As at Jan 2026
1
Lots being subdivided
last 12 months
DA register
As at Aug 2026
3.8%
Gross yield
3BR house
RTA bonds
As at Aug 2026
What it is becoming · the development register

What is being built in Riverhills? You can inspect the house, not the street's future.

Every buyer judges Riverhills as it is today. The council register shows what is already approved on these streets. 22 applications in the last 12 months, 0 refused.

Lot subdivision 1 Shops, services & community 1 Site works & minor 20
Each dot is a real approved application at its actual spot · 1 lots being subdivided · 0 townhouse / multi‑dwelling · hover a dot for the type.

This is the suburb, not your lot. The map shows that change is approved, and roughly where. Which one sits next to the house you are buying, and what it actually means, is in the per‑address report.

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The use fingerprint

What kind of change is being approved (last 12 months).
Density Industrial Amenity
A densifying suburb.

What's arriving

Recent applications near these streets.
1 Shopping centre
1 Lot subdivision
16 of 22 applications approved, 100% approval rate.
Approved or proposed, not yet built. From the council development register. Checked daily; latest application 14 Aug 2026.

What's coming: the approved projects

The actual developments approved on these streets, with the read on each.
  • Apartments / use 1-storey Shopping centre accretiveA modest extension to an existing neighbourhood centre that adds walkable convenience retail and a food/drink offer to a residential pocket of Riverhills, with neighbour impacts well-fenced and time-bound.
From approved council records. Owner and contact details are deliberately not shown.
Flood

Does Riverhills flood? It's a street-by-street question.

A suburb-wide flood figure hides the only answer that matters: whether the specific lot you are looking at sits inside a mapped overlay.

Where we're straight with you
We hold the parcel-level flood overlay here.

Flood overlays for Brisbane are in our map. The per-lot answer (in or out of the overlay) is on the address report, not a suburb average.

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Crime · the full mix

Is Riverhills safe? The crime numbers, plainly.

93 recorded offences across the area. Here is the breakdown. We show it and let you weigh it.

Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)
29
Drug Offences
14
Other Property Damage
13
Unlawful Entry
7
Traffic and Related Offences
7
Good Order Offences
6
Assault
5
Fraud
3
Trespassing and Vagrancy
2
Weapons Act Offences
1
Handling Stolen Goods
1
Miscellaneous Offences
1
Other Offences Against the Person
1
Robbery
1
Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle
1
Arson
1
For context, not a verdict

These are recorded offences for the area, grouped by type. We don't grade the suburb. You read the numbers and decide what matters for your street.

QPS crime data current to 3 Aug 2026.

Who lives here · the demand side

Who lives in Riverhills? The people behind the price.

Who owns, who rents, what they earn, and how much land sits under a typical home. The demand signals a suburb average can answer honestly, drawn from the census we hold.

Owner-occupied
73%
of dwellings are lived in by their owner, not rented out.
Owner-held suburb
Professionals
27%
of workers are in professional roles, the largest occupation group here.
Professional base
Median income
$974/wk
per person, before tax. Not a household figure.
Median lot size
600
a typical parcel here, across 1,622 lots.

How homes are held

Share of occupied dwellings by tenure. A high owner share usually means residents stay put.
Owned outright
25%
Owned with a loan
48%
Rented
25%
Other / not stated
2%
Owner-occupier share is 73% of dwellings in Riverhills. Owner-held pocket, the kind of read buyer's agents weigh for stability.

What people do

Top occupation groups of working residents. A professional weight tends to track stable demand.
Professionals
27%
Clerical and Administrative Workers
15%
Technicians and Trades Workers
14%
Managers
13%
Community and Personal Service Workers
12%
Labourers
7%
Professionals are the largest group at 27% of workers in Riverhills. Professional demographic, a resident base read as resilient.
Source: ABS Census 2021 (tenure, occupation, income) · Lot size from the QLD cadastre ·As at Aug 2026 · Census figures borrowed from the SA2 covering Riverhills.
What this tells you, and what it doesn't

A high owner-occupier share, paired with a professional resident base, is a demand signal: people buy here to live, not to flip. It says nothing about the specific street or block. The per-address report puts these residents next to the exact lot, its zoning and what is being built nearby.

Schools & value

What are the schools like in Riverhills? And what it rents for.

Both pictures side by side, from the latest data we hold.

Schools in Riverhills

ICSEA index. The line is the national average of 1000.
No school ICSEA data held for this suburb yet.

Value & yield

House sales in Riverhills, and the rent it returns.
2023 median house only (61 sales)As at Jan 2026
$775K
2024 median house only (22 sales)As at Jan 2026
$908K
2025 median house only (38 sales)As at Jan 2026
$990K
2026 median house onlyAs at Jan 2026
Not enough house sales in 2026 to publish a median. 2 sold.
3BR house rent (asking, 7 live listings)As at Aug 2026
$730/wk
Gross yield (latest median)As at Aug 2026
3.8%
Is Riverhills a good suburb? · answered by the data

The questions buyers ask about Riverhills.

Straight answers, built from the numbers on this page. We show the data and let you decide. Information only, not advice.

Is Riverhills a good suburb?

Riverhills stands out on rental return, a gross yield near 3.8% for a house, a steady, settled suburb. Median house sits at $990K, well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. It is about 15 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Flood is a per-lot question here and we hold the parcel overlay, so check the exact address rather than a suburb average. None of this is a rating. Every street tells its own story, so run the specific address before you commit.

What is the median house price in Riverhills?

The median house in Riverhills is about $990K (2026), well below the Brisbane house median, on the affordable side. Over two years that is a rise of about 28%.

Does Riverhills flood?

Flood risk in Riverhills is a street-by-street question. We hold the parcel-level flood overlay for this council, so the honest answer is at the exact address, not a suburb average. Run an address to see whether a specific lot sits inside a mapped overlay.

Is Riverhills a good place to invest?

For a 3-bedroom house, gross rental yield runs about 3.8% in Riverhills, comfortably above the Brisbane house average of about 2.7%. That is a genuinely useful yield for a house, so the rent does more of the heavy lifting here. We lay out the numbers and leave the call to you; this is information, not investment advice.

Is Riverhills a safe suburb?

Over the past year there were roughly 93 recorded offences in Riverhills, most commonly other theft. We show the full breakdown and do not grade the suburb; you read it and decide what matters for your street.

What is being built in Riverhills?

In the last twelve months the council logged 22 applications around Riverhills, 16 of them approved. That includes 1 lot subdivision, a clue to how the streetscape is slowly changing. These are approved or proposed plans from the register, not finished buildings.

Now make it about your street

Check any Riverhills address.

Free, no signup, about 10 seconds. Crime, DAs, zoning and the data we hold for the exact lot, not the suburb average.

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