Cameron Highlands: Condos, Apartments and Area Guide

The district covers about 712 km² at heights of roughly 800 to 1,603 metres. It is named after William Cameron, who surveyed the area in 1885. The road up from Tapah was finished in 1930 and opened in 1931, and the same year the highlands became a sub-district under Kuala Lipis.

Tea planters and vegetable farmers followed the road. BOH, founded in 1929, runs the largest tea plantation in the country here. The district has three mukims: Ringlet, Tanah Rata and Ulu Telom. It also has a hydro power scheme.

This zone is the whole of Cameron Highlands district. DOSM put its median household income at RM 5,655 a month in 2024, the highest of any Pahang district and above the state median of RM 4,975. It was RM 5,221 in 2022.

The district had about 44,500 people in 2024. The parliament seat with the same name is larger, because it also takes in the Jelai state seat in Lipis district.

All condo and apartment sales in the district had a median of RM 368 psf in 2024 (RM 330,000 per unit, 51 sales). In 2023 there were more sales, 96, at a median of RM 377 psf. The 28 sales so far for 2025 had a median of RM 394 psf.

Landed houses rarely change hands here: NAPIC recorded only 7 terrace house sales in 2024. Apartments are the normal way to buy in the highlands.

• Tanah Rata: the largest town and the seat of the district council, with most of our pages.
• Brinchang: about 2 km on from Tanah Rata, with Star Regency, Crown Imperial Court and Centrum Iris.
• Kea Farm and Kuala Terla, further north: Copthorne, Aranda Nova, Palas Horizon Residence and Peony Square.
• Ringlet, the first town on the road from Tapah: Aster and Habu Heights Felicia.

• SMK Sultan Ahmad Shah in Tanah Rata and SMK Ringlet, both used as polling stations.
• Chinese and Tamil primary schools across the district, such as SJK (C) Brinchang, SJK (C) Kea Farm and SJK (T) Ladang Boh 1.

• Hospital Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom in Tanah Rata, the district hospital.

• BOH tea estates, the oldest of them dating from 1929.
• Gunung Brinchang: Jalan Gunung Brinchang from Kea Farm is the highest road in Malaysia that cars can use.
• Jungle trails, most of them starting from Tanah Rata, and Orang Asli villages.
• Strawberry and vegetable farms, and the weekend night market at Golden Hills.

• Federal Route 59 from Tapah, the old road that links every town in the highlands.
• Federal Route 185 from Simpang Pulai near Ipoh, opened in 2004, and Route 102 from Ringlet to Sungai Koyan near Kuala Lipis.
• No railway. The nearest KTM stations are Tapah Road and Kuala Lipis. Buses run to Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang and Singapore.

All NAPIC condo and apartment sales in the district had a median of RM 368 psf in 2024, or RM 330,000 per unit.

DOSM put the district median at RM 5,655 a month in 2024, the highest in Pahang.

By road from Tapah (Route 59) or Simpang Pulai near Ipoh (Route 185), or from Kuala Lipis via Sungai Koyan. There is no train; buses come from Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang and Singapore.