Seven Hills is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Seven Hills had a population of 2,732 people.
The name of the area first appeared in local maps in 1891 and 1895, when it was in the possession of landowners David Ham, John James Kingsbury (Ham's son-in-law) and Acheson Overend. The name was taken from the "Seven Hills Estate Co", a mining company whose own name reflected the terrain of the Creswick area north of Ballarat and of which Ham was a prominent shareholder. The 1925 sub-division plan submitted by new owner and land developer Robert George Oates, incorporated Roman street names.
Between 1912 and 1926, the southern edge of the suburb was serviced by the Belmont Tramway which connected with the Queensland Government Railway at Norman Park. Initially the service was operated by the Belmont Shire Council until it was suspended in 1924. The service was reinstated by the Brisbane City Council in 1925 following the amalgamation of the local government authorities, but was again suspended in 1926. The tracks, which followed the present Oateson Skyline Drive and Ferguson Road and continued to Belmont along Old Cleveland Road, remained in place until 1934.
The Seven Hills Presbyterian Church opened on 1 July 1951 at 2 Servius Street (27°28′57″S 153°04′32″E / 27.48251°S 153.07562°E). It was a timber building, capable of seating 200 people. In 1972, the church building was relocated to Carina.
In 1953, the Brisbane City Council commenced a trolley-bus service, which connected the suburb with Fortitude Valley via Stanley Street, terminating just off Oateson Skyline Drive. The trolley-bus service ceased operation on 13 March 1969, when diesel buses took over the service.
Seven Hills State School opened on 25 January 1960 with an initial enrolment of 84 students rising to 141 students by the end of the first year.
On 1 June 2001, Seven Hills was gazetted as a suburb by the Queensland Government, following a push by local residents to have it recognised independently of Norman Park.
A Southbank Institute of Technology campus was operational in the suburb until 2010. The site has since become the Clearview Urban Village.
At the 2011 census, Seven Hills had a population of 2,028 people, of whom 50% were female and 50% were male. The median age of the population was 35; 2 years below the Australian median. 80.6% of people living in Seven Hills were born in Australia, with the next most common countries of birth being England (3.6%), New Zealand (3.6%), South Africa (0.8%), India (0.6%), and the United States (0.6%). 90.3% of people spoke English as their first language, while the other most common responses were Japanese (0.6%), Mandarin (0.6%), Spanish (0.5%), Tagalog (0.4%), and German (0.4%).
In the 2016 census, Seven Hills had a population of 2,211 people.
In the 2021 census, Seven Hills had a population of 2,732 people.
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