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River Heads is a coastal town and locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is at the mouth of the Mary River. In the 2021 census, the locality of River Heads had a population of 2,044 people.

River Heads is 18 kilometres (11 mi) south of the city of Hervey Bay. The town is built on a narrow peninsula surrounded by the Great Sandy Strait (to the east), the mouth of the Mary River (to the south) and the mouth of the Susan River (a tributary of the Mary River) to the south-west.

River Heads Road enters the locality from the north (Booral) and extends south to the tip of the peninsula (being renamed Ariadne Street on the tip of the peninsula); it divides the locality with the urban area to the east and farmland to the west (mostly used as grazing on native vegetation).

River Heads was originally called Bingham after Richard Bingham Sheridan, but was renamed on 22 November 1986. Bingham, in turn, was previously called Tyroom, an aboriginal word.

The first 40 town lots in Bingham were offered for sale in August 1864.

Bingham State School opened on 10 May 1915 (possibly then known as Mary River Heads Provisional School). It closed on 5 September 1926. It was on a 5-acre (2.0 ha) site.

In the 2011 census, the locality of River Heads had a population of 1,294 people.