Median elevation
41 m
range 24–105 m
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Housing
Ross River
Queensland · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Ross River is a leafy residential suburb of Townsville.
Median house price
No open median house price for Ross River.
Queensland sells its property sales records through licensed brokers rather than publishing them openly, so there is no official suburb median we can show. ABS median established-house price, Greater Brisbane: $1.1M; Rest of Qld: $815k.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
0%
0% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Includes the potential-impact buffer around bushfire prone vegetation. Mapping vintages differ by region (South East Queensland 2017, elsewhere 2014). Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled. No open statutory flood layer is published for Queensland yet.
Planning & zoning
Listed heritage places
0
State-listed only (Qld Heritage Register)
Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Queensland has no statewide zoning map — each council publishes its own. Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 16.6 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Townsville
- Population
- 206,260 (2025) · +1.1% in a year
- Area / density
- 3,731 km² · 55/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 36 · $1,701/wk household income · $305/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $456k
- Federal grants
- $6.27M in 2025-26 · $30/resident
- Website
- townsville.qld.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Kennedy
- Federal MP
- Bob Katter (KAP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 59% 2PP
- State electorate
- Burdekin
- State MP
- Dale Last (LNP)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); Bushfire Prone Area — Queensland series, Queensland Fire Department (CC BY 4.0); Queensland Heritage Register boundaries, Queensland Government (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.