Everton Hills Suburb Profile and Insights

Detailed Insights

Everton Hills occupies a compact but unusually layered part of the City of Moreton Bay immediately beside Brisbane City. Everton Park meets the suburb to the south-east, Arana Hills and Ferny Hills continue the established Hills District to the west, and Bunyaville Conservation Park creates a substantial wooded edge to the north. South Pine Road is the principal regional corridor, while Cabbage Tree Creek crosses the suburb through lower green land before continuing into Brisbane’s northern creek system. Between those boundaries is a residential market shaped by more than sixty years of suburban development, selective infill and pronounced changes in elevation.

The present suburb cannot be understood simply as a collection of post-war detached houses. Its street pattern incorporates remnants of much older rural land, the first major suburban expansion of the Hills District, 1970s and 1980s family housing, later 1990s estates, early-2000s detached infill and a strong contemporary townhouse layer. Some of these development periods sit beside one another rather than forming neat concentric bands, which is why individual streets and even opposite sides of the same road can present very different property types.

The wider Hills District remained substantially rural and wooded into the mid-twentieth century. Land west of Old Northern Road had been subdivided much earlier under the Bunyaville name, but relatively little urban development followed immediately. The transition accelerated during the late 1950s and 1960s as suburban lots were released through Arana Hills, Everton Hills and Ferny Hills and Brisbane’s northern residential growth pushed farther into the former Pine Rivers area.

Everton Hills itself was seeing substantial estate development by the mid-1960s, particularly south of South Pine Road. Further subdivisions followed through the 1970s, including development closer to the Bunyaville side. The suburb name was formally separated from Bunyaville in 1979, by which time the basic distinction between the older suburban streets and the remaining large wooded holdings was already well established.

Remnants of the pre-suburban landscape are still visible in the property record. South Pine Road has contained houses dating from before the major estate period on parcels measured in several thousand square metres, while Queens Road has retained older houses on land approaching 2,000 square metres. These properties are important because they explain why occasional large holdings survive inside a suburb otherwise dominated by conventional residential lots and newer attached housing.

Illawarra Street is one of the clearest examples of Everton Hills’ early suburban fabric. Houses from the 1960s and around 1970 are strongly represented, and approximately 600 to 610 square metres recurs as a characteristic land size. The subdivision pattern is relatively consistent even though the houses themselves now vary greatly in condition and accommodation.

Original houses through this pocket include modest lowset and highset residences designed for the family expectations of the period. Three bedrooms were common, living areas were comparatively contained and car accommodation was often simpler than the integrated double garages expected in later housing. Many properties originally left broad rear gardens and useful side setbacks around the building.

Six decades of adaptation have transformed that basic form. Highset houses have often gained enclosed or partly enclosed lower areas, additional bathrooms, utility rooms, home offices or recreation space, while upper levels have received larger decks and more open kitchens. Lowset houses have been extended towards the rear or side and can now include significantly more internal floor area than their original neighbours.

The status and quality of lower-level alterations differ from property to property. A finished room beneath a highset house should not automatically be assumed to have the same approval history or classification as the original upstairs living area. For buyers comparing established homes, the documentation of extensions, bathrooms and enclosed lower spaces can therefore matter as much as their appearance.

Pools, covered patios and sheds are also common additions through the oldest streets. On a roughly 600-square-metre site these improvements can consume a meaningful proportion of the original backyard, so two houses on equivalent land can now offer very different levels of open lawn. House placement and side access often determine whether a boat, trailer or additional vehicle can still reach the rear of the property.

Violet Street preserves another strong 1960s housing layer. Sites around 600 to 640 square metres are well represented and detached houses remain dominant. Some properties retain the simple scale and material character of their original construction, while others have been thoroughly renovated or replaced with more contemporary residences.

Bursaria Street has a similarly early residential foundation but demonstrates how later infill became part of Everton Hills long before the current townhouse cycle. Houses from around the 1960s and 1970s remain on traditional blocks, while later residences dating from the 1990s and beyond occupy sites within the same street pattern. This creates architectural variation without fundamentally altering the original suburban lot structure.

Mirbelia Street and adjoining roads continue the established 1960s and 1970s character. Land around 600 square metres is common enough to produce a recognisable grain, and mature gardens now play a significant role in the streetscape. Large trees, hedges and decades of individual landscaping make these roads feel more established than their relatively simple subdivision pattern suggests.

Bennetts Road is more complex because it combines a strong 1970s layer with later subdivision. Traditional properties around 600 to 620 square metres remain numerous and include lowset, highset and split-level houses. More recent small residential sites have also been created from larger parcels, including lots in the low-400-square-metre range, introducing new detached housing without converting the whole road into a compact estate.

This selective change matters because Bennetts Road cannot be described accurately as either an untouched 1970s street or a redevelopment corridor. Established houses continue to dominate substantial sections, while individual sites have been reconfigured over time. A newer house may therefore sit between two original homes whose yards and building footprints belong to a completely different development era.

Camelia Avenue is one of Everton Hills’ most important internal roads because it combines housing, local shops, medical services and connections between several neighbourhoods. Residential properties include traditional suburban houses from the early development decades, and blocks around 800 square metres occur more frequently than in several of the nearby 600-square-metre streets.

The additional land can materially change the house-and-yard balance. A modest older house may leave extensive lawn, garden or shed space, while a substantially renovated property can accommodate a pool and larger outdoor entertainment area without using almost the entire site. Wide blocks can also provide more practical side access than narrow contemporary infill lots.

Camelia Avenue’s local commercial role dates back to the suburb’s early period of consolidation. The current neighbourhood centre contains a supermarket and everyday health and service businesses, allowing surrounding residents to handle some routine needs within Everton Hills itself. This makes the Camelia Avenue pocket more self-contained than areas whose daily errands naturally lead straight into Arana Hills or Everton Park.

South Pine Road forms a completely different property environment. It is a major arterial road rather than an internal residential street and follows elevated terrain through parts of the suburb. Houses along and near it therefore need to be considered in relation to traffic, driveway access, slope and outlook as well as land and building type.

The land pattern on South Pine Road is exceptionally mixed. Conventional residential sites around 600 to 900 square metres are represented beside larger blocks around 1,500 to 2,000 square metres and surviving parcels extending beyond 3,000 or 5,000 square metres. These large holdings are remnants of earlier subdivision patterns rather than evidence that the entire corridor consists of acreage.

Older houses also survive among the later development. Pre-suburban or early suburban buildings have existed on some of the largest parcels, while 1970s and 1980s houses are more numerous on standard residential sites. Later replacement houses and renovated properties add another generation to the corridor.

Elevation is one of South Pine Road’s strongest property attributes. Suitable sites can obtain wide suburban views and, from some positions, distant city or mountain-facing outlooks. A house designed with upper-level living, broad decks or large windows can make considerably more use of this setting than a lowset house oriented primarily towards its rear garden.

The same topography can create practical differences. Steep front yards, retaining walls and sloping driveways are more prominent on some sites, and vehicle access can be less straightforward where the road frontage is elevated or busy. A large block should therefore not be assumed to provide easy caravan or trailer storage unless the actual access route supports it.

Bowers Road South and Bowers Road North introduce another distinct development layer. Much of the housing is later than the oldest Everton Hills streets, with a particularly visible 1990s generation of family houses. Blocks around 600 to 850 square metres are strongly represented, although residual parcels above 1,500 and 2,500 square metres show that this area also absorbed development incrementally.

Bowers Road South is notable for its topography and relationship with reserve land. Split-level and tri-level houses occur naturally on sloping sites, allowing living areas to step with the ground rather than requiring one broad flat platform. Upper rooms and decks can gain leafy outlooks, while lower levels may contain garages, workshops or secondary living areas.

Properties adjoining reserve or creek-side vegetation can have considerably greater visual separation than their lot size suggests. A 650-square-metre house looking into trees can feel more private than a larger property surrounded by neighbouring backyards. The trade-off is greater shade, leaf fall and vegetation management around the house.

The Bowers Road area also demonstrates the importance of driveway grade. A sloping block can produce excellent elevation and architectural interest while making access to a rear shed or additional vehicle area more difficult. Buyers seeking boats, caravans or trailers need to consider the physical path through the site rather than only the total land area.

Pettys Road is another useful development marker. Older housing exists along the road, but a noticeable layer of approximately 600-square-metre properties was created and built upon during the early 2000s. These houses introduced more contemporary four-bedroom family layouts into an otherwise established suburb.

Integrated double garages, open-plan kitchens, ensuites and larger internal living zones are more typical of this period than in the 1960s housing. Because the sites remained around the traditional 600-square-metre scale, however, many still provide useful rear yards rather than the highly compressed outdoor space associated with later small-lot development.

The early-2000s Pettys Road generation therefore sits between the suburb’s old detached housing and its current infill. It offers more modern building design without necessarily sacrificing conventional land area. Renovation needs are also different, with owners increasingly updating kitchens, bathrooms and finishes rather than fundamentally expanding very small original houses.

Jacqueline Court provides another later detached-housing pocket. Houses from around the mid-2000s occupy conventional suburban land and generally offer contemporary family layouts from the outset. These properties often have four bedrooms, two bathrooms, integrated garaging and open living areas connected with covered outdoor spaces.

Colvillea Court belongs to a similar but slightly later development phase, with housing extending into the early 2010s and land around 800 square metres represented. The larger sites allow contemporary building footprints to coexist with significant gardens, giving the pocket a different character from small-lot infill of a comparable construction age.

These later detached streets are important because Everton Hills is sometimes described as though all of its non-townhouse housing were from the 1960s and 1970s. In reality, the suburb contains several subsequent generations of conventional family homes inserted through later estates and individual subdivisions.

Bunya Road is the clearest place to observe the next major change. Historically it contained detached houses and large residential holdings, and some of that stock remains. Properties around 1,200 square metres occur alongside surviving land above 2,000 square metres and occasional holdings approaching or exceeding 5,000 square metres.

These large sites can contain substantial detached homes, established gardens and considerable private open space. The greater land area is particularly conspicuous where neighbouring development has become more compact. A large house surrounded by trees can now sit only a short distance from rows of modern townhouses or recently created 400-square-metre detached sites.

Conventional detached housing continues along Bunya Road as well. Blocks around 600 to 700 square metres remain, while newer sites around 400 to 500 square metres demonstrate the more efficient land use introduced through recent subdivision. Contemporary houses on these smaller sites usually rely on integrated garages and compact rear gardens rather than detached sheds and broad side access.

This coexistence of old and new makes Bunya Road one of Everton Hills’ most complex property corridors. It should not be interpreted as one large redevelopment precinct. Older houses, residual large blocks, small detached homes and several generations of townhouses all contribute to the present street environment.

Townhouse development became particularly significant along Bunya Road from the mid-2010s onward. Large groups of predominantly three-bedroom homes were created on former larger sites, generally over two levels and sometimes three. Integrated garages, ensuites, open-plan ground-floor living and compact private courtyards are characteristic.

These developments respond differently to the suburb’s hills than detached housing. Buildings can be stepped through the site, internal roads can rise noticeably and retaining walls are frequently incorporated into the overall layout. Some residences occupy elevated edges with broader outlooks, while others sit within enclosed internal positions.

Private outdoor space varies significantly between individual townhouses. Some have compact paved courtyards intended mainly for outdoor dining, while end or perimeter positions can have larger lawns or gardens. This difference can be particularly important for pets, children and residents moving from a detached house who still want meaningful private external space.

Shared recreation also appears in several of the larger townhouse communities. Swimming pools, barbecue areas and landscaped open space can provide facilities that would be difficult to accommodate within an individual compact courtyard. These features reduce the need for every household to maintain a large private yard while adding shared areas to the residential environment.

Parking needs careful comparison within attached housing. Some townhouses provide a single garage with driveway parking, while others have tandem or double accommodation. Visitor parking is distributed through larger developments rather than available freely along every internal road, creating a different daily arrangement from a detached house with a broad driveway.

Timms Road contains an older attached-housing layer. Townhouses dating from around the late 2000s remain strongly represented and generally provide three-bedroom accommodation with compact private land. Their architecture and internal layouts differ from the later Bunya Road projects, giving Everton Hills more than one generation of townhouse stock.

Newer Timms Road development has added larger three and four-bedroom attached homes with greater internal floor area and more substantial garaging. This broadens the attached market from relatively compact townhouse living into housing that can approach detached-house accommodation while still using land more efficiently.

Pepper Road preserves another earlier attached-housing generation. A townhouse community dating broadly from around the 1990 period demonstrates that medium-density housing is not entirely a recent phenomenon in Everton Hills. Established landscaping and older building layouts distinguish these residences from contemporary terrace-style development.

Older townhouse communities can also provide different private-yard proportions. Some residences have broader courtyards or garden areas than recent projects where building efficiency and internal floor area receive greater emphasis. Condition can vary because original kitchens, bathrooms and external finishes may now be several decades old.

Henderson Road has become another important attached-housing corridor. Contemporary townhouse projects completed around 2020 and afterwards introduced three and four-bedroom homes over two or three levels, with integrated garages and more architecturally coordinated streetscapes than the older developments.

These homes often use their vertical form to deliver substantial internal accommodation on compact land. Ground floors commonly contain garages and living spaces, bedrooms occupy upper levels and selected designs add another level or more elevated outlook. Stairs consequently form a much greater part of everyday movement than in the suburb’s dominant lowset detached houses.

Henderson Road’s role is strengthened by the presence of Prince of Peace Lutheran College’s Years 7 to 12 campus. The school and attached housing generate a different traffic and pedestrian pattern from purely residential courts, particularly around school arrival and departure periods.

Queens Road contains perhaps the broadest dwelling mixture after Bunya Road. Older large-site housing survives, including examples dating from before the main suburban development period on land approaching 2,000 square metres. Later detached houses, townhouses and a small amount of low-rise apartment-style housing now sit within the same corridor.

Three-bedroom townhouses form a significant component of the contemporary Queens Road market, while newer projects have also introduced larger four-bedroom terrace-style homes. These properties appeal to households wanting more bedrooms and work-from-home space without maintaining a traditional 600 to 800-square-metre block.

Two-bedroom low-rise units appear in limited parts of Queens Road as well. This is one of the few places where Everton Hills has housing that resembles a conventional small apartment or unit development rather than a townhouse. Apartment-style living remains a minor component of the suburb overall and should not be allowed to obscure the dominance of detached houses and townhouses.

Queens Road is also useful for understanding how density has increased selectively rather than uniformly. Older large properties were particularly suited to redevelopment because they could accommodate several dwellings within one site, but neighbouring traditional houses have often remained untouched. The resulting street pattern is mixed rather than comprehensively rebuilt.

Buckland Road has undergone a similar but more fragmented change. Larger original properties have been divided in stages, producing residential sites in the low-300-square-metre range, other lots around 500 to 600 square metres and remaining larger blocks approaching 900 square metres. Townhouses add another layer to this mixture.

A detached house on approximately 320 to 370 square metres functions very differently from the original 600-square-metre Everton Hills model. The building generally occupies a greater proportion of the site, integrated garages dominate the frontage more strongly and rear gardens are compact. These homes reduce grounds maintenance while retaining individual detached-house ownership and private entries.

Sites around 500 to 580 square metres provide an intermediate form. They can support a contemporary four-bedroom house while still retaining a useful courtyard or lawn, although broad sheds and multiple external vehicle areas are less easily accommodated than on older lots.

Selective infill elsewhere follows the same principle. Elizabeth Street has received newly created lots ranging from the mid-400-square-metre scale to more conventional 800-square-metre land within the same small subdivision. Tiverton Street and Bennetts Road have also seen compact residential sites emerge from older properties.

This form of infill is materially different from replacing an entire suburb with townhouses. It introduces new detached housing one site or small project at a time, so renovated older homes, newly built small-lot houses and original dwellings increasingly coexist within established streets.

Subdivision history therefore has a direct effect on streetscape. Older blocks usually provide wider gardens and more room beside the house, while later lots place a greater proportion of the land beneath the building and driveway. The street can retain mature trees and older houses even as individual sites acquire a much newer built form.

Renovation remains at least as important as redevelopment in Everton Hills. The extensive 1960s and 1970s housing stock has been repeatedly updated, and the strongest renovations often exploit the suburb’s terrain rather than simply modernising finishes. Upper-level decks, open-plan rear living areas and larger windows can capture leafy or elevated outlooks that were not fully used in the original house design.

Highset houses offer particular flexibility. Garaging and storage beneath the original living floor can be supplemented by recreation rooms, offices or other fitted spaces where appropriate. External stairs may be replaced or enclosed and upper decks substantially enlarged. The amount and status of this later work varies, so buyers need to understand the actual building rather than assuming all lower-level rooms were part of the original dwelling.

Lowset brick homes have evolved differently. Kitchen walls may be opened, formal lounge and dining rooms combined and patios expanded into large covered outdoor areas. Original single garages or carports can be supplemented by additional structures where side access and land permit.

Pools occur throughout the detached-house market but interact strongly with lot size and slope. On a level 800-square-metre block, a pool can coexist with substantial lawn and entertainment space. On a steep 600-square-metre site, retaining and the pool structure itself can occupy much of the usable rear garden.

The hilly terrain is one of Everton Hills’ defining property characteristics. Elevation changes occur over comparatively short distances, and streets can rise from creek-side land to ridges with broad outlooks. This affects house orientation, building form, driveway gradients and the amount of easily usable yard.

Split-level architecture is particularly well suited to these sites. Rather than excavating a large flat platform, the house can step down the slope and place garages, bedrooms and living areas at different levels. Many established properties use this approach, especially through Bowers Road and other undulating streets.

Retaining walls are consequently more common than in flatter suburbs. Their age, condition and drainage can be relevant where a property has been extensively landscaped or where neighbouring land sits at a materially different level. Modern infill can introduce substantial engineered retaining where several compact homes are stepped through a former large block.

Elevated land can provide surprisingly broad views for a suburb only around Brisbane’s middle-northern ring. South Pine Road and several ridges contain houses with city-facing, mountain or long suburban outlooks. The view can differ dramatically between levels of the same house, making upper decks and living rooms especially valuable on suitable sites.

Lower land is structured around Cabbage Tree Creek and associated drainage corridors. The creek passes through a broad vegetated reserve network rather than being hidden entirely within concrete infrastructure. This creates a substantial green spine through parts of Everton Hills and connects residential streets with parks and shared paths.

Cabbage Tree Creek Reserve is particularly important because it combines environmental vegetation with playground and exercise facilities and a shared creek-side path. Houses facing or backing towards this corridor can obtain a leafy outlook and greater separation from development than equivalent internal blocks.

The creek corridor should not be treated as one uniform property condition. Individual sites sit at different levels and distances from the waterway, and the reserve itself changes width and character along its route. Current council flood and drainage information is more useful for an individual property than a broad statement about Everton Hills as a whole.

Some properties can have a house positioned on higher ground while lower rear land approaches a creek or drainage area. Others sit entirely above the principal corridor. Access routes and neighbouring open space can also have different water conditions from the dwelling itself, making property-specific assessment particularly important.

Kedron Brook contributes to the southern landscape and forms part of the wider drainage system towards Brisbane. Together with Cabbage Tree Creek, reserve land and steep slopes, it helps explain why development is interrupted by green corridors rather than covering every part of the suburb with a regular residential grid.

Bunyaville Conservation Park provides another substantial natural edge to the north. Properties closest to the park and adjoining vegetation can feel markedly more secluded than their metropolitan location suggests. This setting also reinforces the transition from densely settled Brisbane suburbs into the greener Hills District.

The current planning framework broadly reflects Everton Hills’ dual character. Most established detached streets remain within a suburban residential context, while selected locations accommodate a wider range of compact or attached housing. The practical effect is visible on the ground around Bunya Road, Henderson Road, Queens Road, Buckland Road and other sites where townhouses or smaller detached lots have appeared among older housing.

Planning designation alone does not establish that an individual older property will be redeveloped. Site dimensions, frontage, slope, access, vegetation, servicing and current assessment requirements all matter. Existing large blocks should therefore be described for the space they currently provide rather than promoted as assumed development opportunities.

The suburb’s commercial land is modest and dispersed. Camelia Avenue functions as the principal local service focus, while larger shopping centres sit only a short distance beyond the boundary in Arana Hills, Everton Park and Mitchelton. This keeps most Everton Hills streets predominantly residential even where surrounding suburbs provide substantial retail and employment.

There is no significant industrial area within Everton Hills. Employment inside the suburb is concentrated around education, childcare, health, retail and local services, while nearby Everton Park, Mitchelton, Brendale, Chermside and the wider Brisbane northside provide much larger employment bases.

The property market is consequently best understood through development era and terrain rather than one median idea of the suburb. Illawarra, Violet, Mirbelia and Bursaria retain the strongest early suburban character. Camelia Avenue combines older housing with local services and somewhat larger traditional lots. South Pine Road mixes conventional sites, elevated views and surviving large parcels. Bowers Road adds later sloping family housing beside reserve land.

Pettys Road, Jacqueline Court and Colvillea Court provide later detached generations. Bunya Road has the sharpest juxtaposition of residual large holdings, traditional houses, small-lot infill and contemporary townhouses. Henderson, Queens, Timms, Pepper and Buckland roads broaden the attached-housing market, while creek-side and ridge properties add another layer based on topography rather than construction age.

A buyer comparing Everton Hills property therefore needs to look well beyond bedrooms and nominal land area. A renovated 1960s highset on 607 square metres, a 1990s split-level beside reserve land, an early-2000s four-bedroom house on 600 square metres, a new detached home on 400 square metres and a three-storey townhouse can all sit within the same compact suburb while offering fundamentally different ownership experiences.

Lifestyle

Everton Hills combines the routines of an established Brisbane suburban neighbourhood with considerably more topography and vegetation than its proximity to the city might initially suggest. Daily life changes between the older detached streets, the creek-side neighbourhoods, elevated ridges and the modern townhouse corridors, but most residents remain within a short trip of substantial shopping, schools, rail stations and employment across Brisbane’s northern suburbs.

The oldest detached neighbourhoods provide the most traditional backyard lifestyle. Blocks around 600 to 800 square metres commonly leave room for lawn, gardens, covered entertainment and additional storage, although decades of extensions and pools have reduced open space on some properties. Mature vegetation gives many streets a more settled appearance than newer estates built to similar density.

Highset houses can be particularly practical for households needing storage or vehicle space. Garages, workshops and utility areas beneath the main living floor can keep equipment away from the backyard, while upper decks take advantage of elevation and afternoon breezes. Renovated examples often use those decks as major outdoor living rooms rather than small secondary spaces.

Lowset properties provide a different relationship with the garden. Living areas can open directly onto patios and pools without stairs, and larger Camelia Avenue or traditional 800-square-metre sites can support substantial private yards. Older residents or households prioritising single-level movement may find this form more suitable than a highset house or multi-level townhouse.

The suburb’s hills create strong micro-differences in outdoor living. Elevated houses can capture broad outlooks and breezes, while lower properties can feel more enclosed by gardens and mature trees. A rear yard that steps down several levels can be visually attractive but offers a different play and gardening environment from a flat lawn of the same total area.

Retaining walls and terraced gardens are consequently normal elements of many properties. Some owners have turned steep sections into landscaped planting, decks or pool areas rather than trying to create one level lawn. The effectiveness of those improvements can have a major influence on how usable the property feels.

Cabbage Tree Creek gives the suburb one of its strongest everyday recreation assets. The reserve follows the creek through native vegetation and contains a playground, fitness equipment and shaded areas, while the shared creek-side path provides a useful walking and cycling route through the green corridor.

The path connects towards other local parks and gives residents an alternative to walking entirely beside roads. Dog walkers, runners and cyclists use the corridor, and the creek vegetation creates a markedly more natural setting than a standard suburban footpath.

Homes close to the reserve can therefore have particularly convenient access to recreation. A resident may be able to leave the house and join the creek path within a short local walk, while someone on an elevated northern street may need to descend and climb again to use the same facilities.

Sylvia Gibbs Park provides a broader recreation environment on the eastern side of Everton Hills. Playground equipment, barbecue and picnic facilities, exercise equipment, table tennis, open grass and a fenced dog off-leash area make it useful for several age groups rather than functioning only as a children’s playground.

The park’s position near Old Northern Road places it close to the Everton Park side of the suburb and to households whose ordinary errands already lead towards the larger retail areas there. Its mature vegetation also reinforces the green boundary between residential streets and the busier road network.

Bowman Park is a smaller leafy neighbourhood park with play equipment and open space. Its role is more local than Sylvia Gibbs Park or Cabbage Tree Creek Reserve, giving surrounding households a nearby place for informal play without requiring a trip to a major recreation precinct.

Bunyaville Conservation Park adds a completely different outdoor environment immediately to the north. Bushwalking, mountain-bike riding and environmental education occur within the broader Bunyaville area, placing a substantial tract of native vegetation beside a suburb otherwise closely integrated with Brisbane.

This northern bushland relationship is particularly noticeable around Bunya Road and the higher parts of Everton Hills. Views can include substantial tree cover and distant hills rather than continuous urban roofs, even though major shopping and employment centres remain only a short drive away.

The Bunyaville Environmental Education Centre operates from the conservation-park setting within Everton Hills and gives schools access to environmental and outdoor learning programs. It is not a conventional neighbourhood school for local enrolment, but it reinforces the educational use of the bushland on the suburb’s northern edge.

Local shopping is concentrated principally around Camelia Avenue. The Friendly Grocer provides everyday groceries and top-up shopping, while the surrounding health and service businesses reduce the need to leave the suburb for every routine errand.

Everton Hills Medical Centre adds primary healthcare within the same local precinct. This combination is particularly useful to residents in the older central and southern streets, who can have a supermarket and general medical services relatively close to home without the traffic and scale of a regional centre.

The suburb nevertheless relies heavily on surrounding centres for larger shopping. Arana Hills Plaza is one of the closest and provides major supermarket and discount-department-store retail along with specialty businesses. It is especially convenient from western Everton Hills and from roads feeding towards South Pine Road.

Brookside Shopping Centre in Mitchelton provides a substantially larger retail environment with multiple supermarkets, major retailers, specialty stores and services. Its proximity to Mitchelton station also allows shopping and passenger rail to be combined within the same trip.

Everton Park supplies another major cluster immediately south-east. Everton Plaza, the Park Lane dining precinct, Everton Park Shopping Centre and NorthWest Plaza together provide supermarkets, restaurants, cafés, health services and specialty retail across several separate centres rather than one enclosed mall.

This surrounding choice means households can orient their shopping differently according to where they live. Someone near Old Northern Road may naturally use Everton Park, a western household may favour Arana Hills, and residents commuting through Mitchelton can combine Brookside with rail or other errands.

Dining follows a similar pattern. Everton Hills itself has a modest local food offering rather than a major restaurant strip, while Everton Park has become a significant nearby dining destination. Mitchelton and Arana Hills broaden the choice further, so residents do not need a dense commercial centre within Everton Hills to have substantial options nearby.

The townhouse corridors create a different home-based lifestyle from the older detached streets. Private gardens are generally smaller, external maintenance is reduced and shared landscaped areas or recreation facilities can provide some of the greenery and leisure space that detached households accommodate privately.

Three-bedroom townhouses are particularly common and can suit couples, small families and downsizers wanting multiple bedrooms without a large yard. Contemporary examples often include an ensuite, study nook or flexible upper landing, allowing work-from-home space within a relatively compact footprint.

Four-bedroom terrace-style homes broaden this market further. Their internal accommodation can approach that of a detached house, but the outdoor area and building separation remain very different. Multiple levels also mean daily stairs are an important consideration for residents comparing them with single-level detached housing.

Older townhouse communities around Timms and Pepper roads can provide a more established garden setting. Mature landscaping softens buildings and some individual positions have larger courtyards than newer developments. The age of kitchens, bathrooms and external finishes varies considerably, creating more scope for renovation than in recently completed projects.

Bunya Road’s modern townhouse communities are more uniform architecturally and often include landscaped common areas and recreation facilities. Residents trade the extensive private yard of an older Everton Hills house for newer construction, compact maintenance and proximity to the suburb’s road and bushland network.

Parking is one of the everyday distinctions. Detached properties frequently have room for several cars across garages, driveways or side areas, while townhouse households rely more heavily on the spaces designed into the dwelling and designated visitor areas. A household with work vehicles, trailers or recreational equipment therefore needs to compare property types carefully.

Selective small-lot detached housing offers another compromise. A contemporary house on 400 to 500 square metres can provide its own front door, garage and fenced yard without the extensive mowing of an older 800-square-metre block. The trade-off is less side access and a smaller separation from neighbouring houses.

School routines are also strongly influenced by location. Prince of Peace Lutheran College’s Years 7 to 12 campus on Henderson Road places secondary education directly within the suburb for families using the school, while its junior campus is nearby in Everton Park. Government schools are distributed through surrounding suburbs rather than concentrated within Everton Hills itself.

This creates school-day movement in several directions. Some households travel towards Everton Park, others towards McDowall, Mitchelton, Arana Hills or neighbouring districts according to school choice and government catchment. The suburb’s central position among several established school communities provides choice but makes the individual address more important than a single suburb-wide school pattern.

Public transport can form part of daily commuting for residents prepared to use the bus-and-rail network. Buses along Camelia Avenue and South Pine Road connect towards Mitchelton, Brookside and Ferny Grove, allowing passengers to transfer to trains or continue towards other Brisbane destinations.

The usefulness of that network changes significantly by pocket. Central and eastern streets can be comparatively close to regular bus corridors, while houses deep within cul-de-sacs or at the northern end of Bunya Road may involve a longer walk or initial drive. The hills also make a short distance on a map more demanding on foot than it would be in a flat suburb.

Rail stations sit outside Everton Hills but are distributed around it. Mitchelton is convenient for trips combined with Brookside or Everton Park travel, while Grovely and Oxford Park can be practical from southern and western areas. Ferny Grove provides another option from the Hills District side.

This network makes Everton Hills more connected than a purely car-dependent outer suburb, but private vehicles remain important. Shopping centres, schools, sporting facilities and employment are distributed across surrounding suburbs rather than concentrated along one local transit corridor.

Road commuting towards Brisbane generally flows through Everton Park, Mitchelton, Enoggera or the broader Stafford Road and South Pine Road network. Chermside and the northside employment areas are also comparatively accessible without travelling through Brisbane CBD.

Brendale provides another significant employment direction to the north. Trades, logistics, warehousing and industrial employment can be reached through the South Pine Road and Albany Creek side of the network, making Everton Hills practical for households whose jobs are distributed across northern Brisbane and Moreton Bay rather than concentrated downtown.

Working from home is well accommodated by many property types. Older detached houses frequently have lower-level rooms, studies or extended living areas that can be adapted for office use, while four-bedroom contemporary townhouses can allocate an upper bedroom or dedicated study space without requiring a large block.

The suburb’s green spaces also make local exercise relatively easy to integrate into a home-working routine. Cabbage Tree Creek paths, neighbourhood parks and hilly residential streets provide several walking environments without needing to travel to a major recreation destination.

The hills themselves can make exercise considerably more strenuous than the compact street distances suggest. Residents on elevated streets routinely encounter climbs when walking towards creek paths, shops or adjoining suburbs, while the return journey can be the steeper half of the trip depending on the property.

Cyclists gain from the Cabbage Tree Creek shared path and connections towards surrounding parks, but not every residential street is part of a separated network. Local road gradients, traffic and intersections therefore remain relevant when deciding whether a particular trip is practical by bicycle.

For households wanting larger private outdoor space, the surviving big blocks along Bunya Road, South Pine Road and selected internal roads form a distinct lifestyle niche. Several thousand square metres can provide extensive gardens, mature trees and substantial separation while remaining within an otherwise urban suburb.

These properties should not be confused with rural acreage farther from Brisbane. They sit within a metropolitan service environment and can be close to buses, schools and shopping despite having the scale of a small acreage holding. Their maintenance burden can nevertheless be far greater than neighbouring suburban lots.

A large established garden can require substantial mowing, tree work and fence maintenance. Long driveways and extensive retaining may add further responsibilities where the property is steep. The attraction lies in space and privacy rather than low-maintenance ownership.

Everton Hills therefore supports several quite different daily routines within a small geographic area. The early suburban streets offer mature gardens and conventional backyards, creek-side properties place walking and greenery close to home, elevated houses emphasise outlook, large residual holdings provide metropolitan-scale space, and newer townhouse corridors prioritise contemporary accommodation with much less private land.

What binds these pockets together is the suburb’s location between established Brisbane services and the greener Hills District. Residents can live among mature trees, creek reserves and sloping streets while remaining closely connected with Everton Park, Arana Hills, Mitchelton, Chermside and the wider northern employment network.

Travel

Everton Hills sits at a useful transport junction between Brisbane’s northern suburbs and the Hills District, although the network is shaped by hills, creek corridors and the absence of a railway station within the suburb itself. South Pine Road is the principal regional route, while Bunya Road, Camelia Avenue, Queens Road, Henderson Road, Buckland Road, Bennetts Road and local connections distribute traffic through individual neighbourhoods.

South Pine Road carries the greatest regional movement. East and south-east travel leads towards Everton Park and Brisbane’s established northern road network, while west and north-west connections lead towards Arana Hills, Albany Creek and other parts of Moreton Bay. The road also provides access towards Brendale’s employment area.

Properties directly addressing South Pine Road have particularly straightforward arterial access but experience a different environment from internal cul-de-sacs. Traffic movement, driveway entry and road exposure are more significant, especially where the property sits on a slope or elevated frontage.

The corridor’s terrain can complicate otherwise simple access. Some houses sit above the carriageway and require a climbing driveway, while others have flatter entries. Vehicles towing trailers or caravans can experience these properties quite differently from an ordinary passenger car.

Bunya Road performs a different role. It connects Everton Hills with the Bunyaville side and carries local traffic from detached housing, large residential properties and several substantial townhouse communities. Its changing residential density has increased the range of movements along the road compared with its earlier large-block form.

The road remains strongly residential despite this growth. Townhouse entrances and compact houses sit among mature vegetation and older properties rather than forming a continuous commercial corridor. The proximity of Bunyaville Conservation Park also gives the northern end a greener road environment.

Henderson Road connects several residential pockets and serves the Prince of Peace secondary campus. School arrival and departure periods create a pronounced weekday traffic pattern around the campus, while townhouse development has added further resident and visitor movement along the corridor.

Queens Road has another mixed local function. Older detached housing, contemporary attached development and access towards surrounding streets all use the road. Because some projects contain numerous dwellings behind one frontage, traffic concentration can differ considerably from the traditional one-house-per-block pattern.

Camelia Avenue is particularly important for local trips because it combines residential frontage with the suburb’s main neighbourhood shopping and health services. Residents can reach groceries or medical appointments without joining a major regional shopping corridor, and buses use the broader Camelia Avenue network to connect with surrounding centres.

Bennetts Road and Buckland Road distribute movement through established residential areas and connect several of the older street networks. Their incremental infill has increased dwelling numbers in selected locations without changing their basic role as local residential connectors.

Old Northern Road runs immediately along the Everton Park side of the district and forms another major north-south corridor. It connects towards Albany Creek and Aspley to the north-east and towards Everton Park and the inner northern suburbs to the south. Eastern Everton Hills households can use it without travelling across the entire suburb.

Pullen Road and adjoining Brisbane-side streets provide routes towards Everton Park, Mitchelton and Enoggera. These connections are particularly useful for residents whose destinations are south or south-east rather than along South Pine Road.

Stafford Road becomes an important onward corridor once residents travel through Everton Park. It provides access towards Stafford, Kedron and the inner-north road network and ultimately supports trips towards the city and airport-side suburbs.

Everton Hills has no passenger railway station within its boundary. The surrounding rail network nevertheless gives residents several station choices, and the most practical one depends on the property’s location and onward destination rather than one station universally serving the suburb.

Mitchelton station is one of the principal options and is particularly useful because it sits near Brookside Shopping Centre and bus connections. Residents can combine rail commuting with shopping or other services without making a separate trip.

Grovely and Oxford Park stations can be practical from southern and western parts of Everton Hills, particularly where the road connection leads naturally through Arana Hills or the Mitchelton side. These smaller stations provide alternatives to navigating the busier Brookside precinct.

Ferny Grove station provides another option from the western Hills District side and is served by bus connections from parts of the surrounding network. Its role can be especially useful where a household’s routine already takes it towards Ferny Hills or Ferny Grove.

The absence of a station therefore does not make rail irrelevant. It changes the journey into a two-stage trip in which the first leg is by bus, car, bicycle or walking according to the property. Households relying heavily on rail should assess that first leg as carefully as the train service itself.

Regular buses operate through Everton Hills and connect with Mitchelton, Brookside, Ferny Grove and surrounding suburbs. Camelia Avenue and South Pine Road are among the important corridors, while nearby Old Northern Road carries additional services through the broader Everton Park network.

Central houses generally have the strongest relationship with these services. A property near Camelia Avenue can be within practical walking distance of both local shops and a bus corridor, while a house at the end of a steep cul-de-sac can require a more demanding walk despite similar straight-line distance.

Topography is therefore unusually important to public transport accessibility. A 700-metre walk downhill to a stop can become a substantial uphill return trip, and stairs or steep footpaths may affect residents differently according to age and mobility.

Townhouse development along Bunya, Henderson and Queens roads has placed more residents relatively close to bus corridors, although the actual entrance to a large community can still be some distance from an individual dwelling. Internal roads and elevation can add to the walking distance shown by a simple property map.

Walking for ordinary errands is most practical around Camelia Avenue and on the eastern side where surrounding Everton Park services are relatively close. Larger shopping centres remain beyond easy walking distance for much of the suburb, so most households still use a car or public transport for major retail trips.

Cabbage Tree Creek provides the strongest off-road active-transport environment. The shared creek-side path links the reserve with other parks and gives cyclists and pedestrians a greener alternative to travelling entirely along busy roads.

Council upgrades along the Cabbage Tree Creek corridor have improved sections of the shared path and creek crossings around Collins Road and adjoining streets. These works strengthen local links between Everton Hills neighbourhoods and the broader active-transport network.

The path is useful both for recreation and selected practical trips, but the suburb’s hills mean connections between a house and the creek corridor can involve substantial climbs. A resident living directly beside the lower corridor experiences the network very differently from someone on a ridge above it.

Cycling on local streets is similarly influenced by gradients. Quiet roads can be attractive for recreational riding, but steep climbs occur and busier connectors eventually need to be crossed or used. The creek network therefore provides particularly valuable relief from road traffic where it aligns with the desired journey.

Travel towards Brisbane CBD generally follows one of several established northern corridors rather than a single motorway. South Pine Road, Everton Park, Enoggera and the Stafford Road side provide different options according to traffic and destination. This distributes commuter movement but also makes peak conditions important.

Everton Hills is closer to many northside employment centres than a simple CBD distance suggests. Everton Park, Mitchelton, Stafford, Chermside and the inner north contain substantial retail, health, office and service employment, reducing the need for every worker to continue into central Brisbane.

Chermside is particularly significant for hospital, retail and professional employment. Road access generally uses the Everton Park and Stafford side of the network rather than travelling through the city centre.

Brendale provides a major northern employment direction. Warehousing, manufacturing, trade and service businesses can be reached through South Pine Road and the Albany Creek side, making Everton Hills comparatively well positioned for workers whose employment is in Moreton Bay’s southern industrial area.

The airport and Australia TradeCoast employment areas require a longer cross-city journey but can be reached through the northern arterial and tunnel network. Travel times are sensitive to congestion and should be considered from the individual property rather than described with one fixed estimate.

School travel is distributed across several directions because the suburb contains Prince of Peace’s secondary campus but no mainstream government primary or secondary campus. Some families travel towards Everton Park, others towards Mitchelton, McDowall, Arana Hills or other nearby school communities according to enrolment and choice.

The concentration of school and townhouse development around Henderson Road creates more pedestrian and vehicle activity there than in older cul-de-sacs. Residents comparing otherwise similar properties may therefore place different value on direct school access and street quietness.

Large residual properties introduce another transport consideration at the household level. A long or steep private driveway can materially affect caravan, boat, trailer or delivery access even where the public-road connection is excellent. Turning space and driveway width are particularly important on wooded or sloping sites.

Older detached blocks can often accommodate several household vehicles across garages, carports and driveways. This can be useful in a suburb where different adults may commute to separate destinations and teenagers or older children may need independent transport.

Townhouse households generally have more defined parking arrangements. Garages and allocated spaces provide predictable accommodation, but there is less opportunity to add extra hardstand or store a large recreational vehicle than on a detached block.

Everton Hills therefore has a relatively strong transport position without being genuinely transit-oriented. The eastern and central streets have the easiest combination of buses, local services and nearby rail connections, the western and northern pockets remain closely connected by road, and the creek corridor provides a useful active-transport spine. Exact convenience depends heavily on elevation and the property’s relationship with the principal roads.

Schools & Amenities

Everton Hills has an extensive education network nearby, but only a limited number of education campuses physically within the suburb itself. Prince of Peace Lutheran College’s Years 7 to 12 campus is on Henderson Road in Everton Hills, while its Kindergarten to Year 6 campus is on Rogers Parade West in neighbouring Everton Park. The distinction is important because the two campuses operate as one college but occupy different suburb localities.

The Henderson Road campus provides secondary education within Everton Hills and includes general classrooms, specialist learning areas, sporting and performance facilities. Its position among residential streets means the school is closely integrated with the surrounding neighbourhood rather than isolated within a large institutional precinct.

The junior Prince of Peace campus in Everton Park is still very close to Everton Hills and provides Kindergarten through Year 6 education together with outside-school-hours care. Families using the college therefore have relatively short travel between the two campuses even though only the senior campus sits within Everton Hills.

Bunyaville Environmental Education Centre is another education facility physically associated with Everton Hills. It operates from the Bunyaville Conservation Park setting and provides environmental and outdoor education programs for visiting school groups rather than functioning as a mainstream local enrolment school.

There is no mainstream Queensland Government primary or secondary school campus within Everton Hills itself. Government schooling is supplied by surrounding suburbs, and the appropriate school depends on the individual address and current Department of Education catchment arrangements.

Everton Park State School is a nearby government primary school in Everton Park, while Grovely State School, McDowall State School and other surrounding primary schools form part of the broader northern education network. Proximity alone should not be treated as confirmation that an Everton Hills address falls within a particular enrolment area.

Government secondary options similarly sit outside the suburb. Mitchelton State High School is among the nearby campuses, while other addresses can relate to different surrounding secondary schools under current catchment arrangements. Families should check the current government mapping for the individual property.

Northside Christian College in Everton Park provides an additional independent Prep to Year 12 option nearby. Mount Maria College at Mitchelton and other Catholic and independent schools across Brisbane’s north-west broaden the non-government choice further.

Early-childhood services are distributed through Everton Hills and adjoining suburbs, with childcare and kindergarten options close to the established residential areas and larger centres. The concentration of family services around Everton Park, Arana Hills and Mitchelton means households can generally combine childcare with work, shopping or school travel.

Camelia Avenue contains Everton Hills’ principal everyday shopping cluster. Friendly Grocer provides local supermarket-style grocery shopping, allowing surrounding households to handle top-up and routine purchases without travelling to one of the larger neighbouring centres.

The local centre’s scale is appropriate to a predominantly residential suburb. It provides useful daily convenience without creating a major commercial strip through the neighbourhood, and the surrounding streets remain overwhelmingly residential.

Everton Hills Medical Centre operates within the Camelia Avenue precinct and provides general-practice services locally. Other health and personal-service businesses in and around the same neighbourhood strengthen the centre’s role as the suburb’s principal everyday service point.

Dental, allied-health and additional medical services are widely available in neighbouring Everton Park, Arana Hills and Mitchelton. This surrounding network means higher-order health needs do not depend on one local centre, while everyday general practice can still be accessed within Everton Hills.

Arana Hills Plaza is one of the closest larger shopping centres and sits immediately to the west in Arana Hills. Its Coles and ALDI supermarkets, Kmart and specialty retailers provide a much broader shopping offer than the local Camelia Avenue centre.

The plaza is particularly convenient from South Pine Road and the western residential streets. Combining groceries, discount retail and other errands in one centre makes it a common practical destination even for households that use Everton Park or Mitchelton for other services.

Brookside Shopping Centre at Mitchelton provides another major nearby retail centre. Multiple supermarkets, large retailers, specialty businesses and food services are combined with close access to Mitchelton railway station and the surrounding bus network.

This transport relationship makes Brookside particularly useful to commuters. Shopping can be combined with rail travel, appointments or journeys through Mitchelton rather than requiring a separate car trip solely for retail.

Everton Park contains several separate commercial precincts rather than one dominant shopping centre. Everton Plaza and the Park Lane dining area provide food and hospitality, while Everton Park Shopping Centre and NorthWest Plaza add supermarkets, health services and specialty retail.

The proximity of these centres gives eastern Everton Hills a particularly strong service environment. Residents can reach several supermarkets, restaurants and medical providers within a short road journey despite the suburb itself remaining relatively small and residential.

Chermside provides the major regional level of shopping and health care. Westfield Chermside and the surrounding commercial district offer a scale of retail and services far beyond the local centres, while The Prince Charles Hospital provides major public hospital care for Brisbane’s northside.

Hospital and specialist care is therefore available within the wider northern suburban network rather than within Everton Hills. The road journey towards Chermside is more direct than travelling into Brisbane CBD for many health services.

Cabbage Tree Creek Reserve is one of Everton Hills’ principal public open spaces. The reserve follows the creek through native vegetation and includes playground equipment, exercise facilities, seating and shaded areas, creating a recreation environment that combines formal facilities with a natural waterway corridor.

A shared creek-side path extends through the reserve and connects towards other nearby parks. It is used by walkers, cyclists and dog walkers and provides a greener active-transport route than the surrounding road network.

The creek’s ecological role is also important. Native vegetation supports birdlife and contributes to a continuous green corridor through an otherwise developed suburban district. Houses adjoining the reserve can therefore have a more natural outlook than equivalent blocks in fully built-up streets.

Sylvia Gibbs Park is another substantial park within Everton Hills. It contains play equipment, barbecues, picnic shelters, outdoor fitness equipment, table tennis, open grass and a fenced dog off-leash area, giving it a broader range of facilities than a small local playground.

Its location near Old Northern Road makes it particularly accessible to eastern Everton Hills and to residents whose ordinary travel already passes through Everton Park. Toilets and picnic facilities also make it suitable for longer visits rather than only brief neighbourhood play.

Bowman Park provides a smaller leafy recreation space with play equipment, tables and open green surroundings. It serves a more local neighbourhood role and gives nearby residents a convenient play area within the established residential streets.

William Scott Park and other nearby reserves broaden the local park network, while the connected creek-side paths allow several spaces to function as part of a wider green system rather than isolated recreation islands.

Bunyaville Conservation Park immediately north of Everton Hills provides a much larger natural environment. Native forest, walking and mountain-bike trails and environmental education facilities give residents access to bushland recreation without travelling to the outer hinterland.

The conservation park is especially relevant to northern and western Everton Hills, where Bunya Road and surrounding streets sit close to extensive tree cover. Its presence contributes to the strong wooded outlook visible from many elevated properties.

Cabbage Tree Creek and Bunyaville serve different recreational functions. The creek corridor is integrated with residential walking and cycling and contains neighbourhood facilities, while Bunyaville provides a more extensive bushland experience with trails and conservation values.

The suburb does not contain a major public aquatic centre or large regional sporting complex. Organised sport is instead distributed through Everton Park, Mitchelton, Arana Hills, Ferny Hills, Albany Creek, Brendale and other surrounding suburbs.

This is partly offset by the amount of private outdoor space available through Everton Hills’ detached housing. Traditional blocks can contain pools, lawns and substantial entertainment areas, while surviving large holdings provide far more recreation space at home than would be possible in a compact urban suburb.

Townhouse residents rely more heavily on public parks and shared landscaped or recreation areas. Several modern developments include swimming or barbecue facilities, while Cabbage Tree Creek Reserve and other parks provide larger areas for walking and active play beyond the private courtyard.

Public library services are available nearby rather than through a large permanent library within Everton Hills. Arana Hills Library is one of the closest council branches and provides borrowing, study and community facilities in the neighbouring suburb.

Mitchelton, Everton Park and the wider Brisbane northside provide additional libraries, community facilities and civic services. The suburb’s location at the boundary between City of Moreton Bay and Brisbane City means residents naturally use amenities administered by both local-government areas according to convenience.

This cross-boundary relationship is one of Everton Hills’ practical strengths. A resident can live within the City of Moreton Bay while using Brisbane-side shopping, schools, hospitals, rail stations and dining only a short distance away. The administrative boundary is far less visible in daily life than it is on a map.

Employment is similarly dispersed. Local schools, health, childcare and retail provide some jobs within Everton Hills, while Everton Park, Mitchelton and Chermside contain much larger service and retail employment bases. Brendale adds industrial and trade employment to the north, and central Brisbane remains accessible through the road and rail network.

The suburb’s amenities are therefore best understood as a combination of a useful local core and an exceptionally dense ring of surrounding services. Camelia Avenue handles everyday groceries and health care, the local parks and creek corridor provide recreation, Prince of Peace provides secondary education within the suburb, and Arana Hills, Everton Park, Mitchelton and Chermside supply the higher-order facilities that Everton Hills itself does not need to duplicate.

Local Schools

Prince of Peace Lutheran College (Rogers Pde West - Everton Hills)
Distance: 0.60 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 355
20 Rogers Parade West, Everton Park
Phone: (07) 3872 5700
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Pine Community School (Arana Hills)
Distance: 0.99 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 107
123 Bunya Road, Arana Hills
Phone: (07) 3851 1496
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Everton Park State School
Distance: 1.55 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 558
Deakin Street, Everton Park
Phone: (07) 3550 2222
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Grovely State School
Distance: 1.57 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 303
200 Dawson Parade, Keperra
Phone: (07) 3354 6333
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McDowall State School
Distance: 1.82 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 988
1018 Rode Road, Mcdowall
Phone: (07) 3872 5333
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Northside Christian College (Everton Park)
Distance: 1.86 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Prep Year – Year 12
Students: 1,245
151 Flockton Street, Everton Park
Phone: (07) 3353 1266
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Bunyaville Environmental Education Centre
Distance: 1.94 km
Outdoor and Environmental Education Centre
Sector: State
Bunyaville Conservation Park, Access Ring Road (Off Old Northern Road), Everton Hills
Phone: (07) 3353 4356
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St William's Primary School (Keperra)
Distance: 2.08 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 490
67 Dawson Parade, Keperra
Phone: (07) 3355 5122
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Mitchelton State High School
Distance: 2.21 km
State High School
Sector: State
Years: Year 7 – Year 12
Students: 712
754 Samford Road, Mitchelton
Phone: (07) 3550 1111
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Mt Maria College (Mitchelton)
Distance: 2.30 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Year 7 – Year 12
Students: 1,154
54 Prospect Road, Mitchelton
Phone: (07) 3550 3400
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Mitchelton State School
Distance: 2.43 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 537
47 Glen Retreat Road, Mitchelton
Phone: (07) 3550 2333
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Mitchelton Special School
Distance: 2.43 km
Special School
Sector: State
Years: Early Childhood – Year 12
Students: 78
Kedron Avenue, Mitchelton
Phone: (07) 3354 5333
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Our Lady of Dolours School (Mitchelton)
Distance: 2.56 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 163
2 Willcocks Street, Mitchelton
Phone: (07) 3355 7763
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