Welcome to Bowen Hills
Bowen Hills is the place to be every August, when the Ekka sets up in the RNA Showgrounds. It’s an inner city suburb with high-density living and the majority of homes are multi-storey residential apartments with few freestanding houses.
The suburb also has a mix of light industry including the Mayne Rail Yards. All Brisbane suburban trains on lines in both directions stop at Bowen Hills. The first tram ran in 1885 to Bowen Hills but the tracks were ripped up in 1969.
The beautiful old Queensland Museum building on the corner of Bowen Bridge Road and Gregory Terrace was built in 1891 and is now the home of the Queensland Youth Orchestra and various other performing arts groups.
Cloudland was once a famous landmark of Bowen Hills. The dance hall and concert venue lives in the memory of older Brisbane residents as a place of romance, dancing and entertainment but was controversially demolished overnight on 7 November 1982 and long-since mourned. An apartment complex now stands in its place.
Bowen Hills has an eclectic mix of businesses and services. You can play soccer at Perry Park, visit a coffee brew house, record your next album at a sound studio, or get your prestige car repaired. But Bowen Hills is about to change. It’s been identified by the State Government as an urban development area so keep an eye on what sort of place it becomes in the near future.
Statistics
Bowen Hills is about 3km from Brisbane’s CBD. 57% of households consist of couples without children, 23% are couples with children and 26% are lone person households. 64% of dwellings in this area are units and 21% are stand-alone houses. The stand-alone houses are usually on medium sized blocks and tend to be wooden with a tin roof.
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