Suburb profile

River Heads QLD 4655

River Heads is located in the Wide Bay region of Queensland, postcode 4655. It has 1,935 properties across 53 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in River Heads, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About River Heads

River Heads, QLD 4655, sits in the Wide Bay region and neighbours Booral, Bunya Creek, Great Sandy Strait and Susan River. Its 53 streets hold 1,935 properties, 1,913 of them houses and 22 units.

Census figures are for the Booral - River Heads area, which covers the whole suburb. The area had 5,775 residents, a median age of 49 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $1,402 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,560 a month and the median rent $330 a week. Of 2,033 dwellings, 2,000 were separate houses, 6 semi-detached, 4 flats and 16 other; 906 were owned outright, 848 owned with a mortgage and 244 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in River Heads

  • 5,775Peoplelive in the area
  • 49Median ageyears
  • $1,402Median household incomea week
  • $330Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,000
  • Townhouses and semis6
  • Flats and apartments4
  • Other16

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,560a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 906Owned with a mortgage 848Rented 244Other 35

For sale and rent in River Heads

Tom FebenTom Feben

Offers Over $375,000

45 Kingfisher Drive, River Heads QLD 4655

800 m² land Land

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Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.

Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.