Suburb profile

Ross River QLD 4816

Ross River is located in the Townsville region of Queensland, postcode 4816. It has 12 properties across 2 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Ross River, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Ross River

Ross River, QLD 4816, sits in the Townsville region and neighbours Brookhill, Mount Stuart, Oak Valley and Pinnacles. Its 2 streets hold 12 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the wider area of Townsville - South, which had 4,767 residents at the 2021 Census, a median age of 45 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $1,886 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month and the median rent $270 a week. Of 1,663 dwellings, 1,647 were separate houses and 5 were other types; 698 were owned outright, 782 owned with a mortgage and 131 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Ross River

  • 4,767Peoplelive in the area
  • 45Median ageyears
  • $1,886Median household incomea week
  • $270Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,647
  • Other5

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,733a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 698Owned with a mortgage 782Rented 131Other 52

Streets in Ross River

Neighbouring suburbs

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.