It’s home to the Redcliffe Aerodrome and has easy access to major roadways, wetlands and parks.
The suburb, about nine kilometres north of the city, unsurprisingly scores strongly for retail, but it also ranks well for its cafés as well as its walkability and open space. Good school options saw a strong showing in the access to education ranking, with a decent rank for open space as well.The bayside suburb of Rothwell sits between the Redcliffe peninsula and Deception Bay, resulting in a high coast and beach ranking.
This boosted the open space and tree cover rankings for the suburb.Ellen Grove in Brisbane’s south west has seen progressive subdivision of its once rural-residential holdings to create new housing on small lots with easy access to Forest Lake facilities. Bus access ranks highly in the study while the Rothwell Central shopping area boosts its retail result.Gailes extends south of the Ipswich Motorway/Logan Motorway junction and is dominated by affordable post-1960s housing. The suburb scores well for access to secondary education, cafes and access to the coast.One of Brisbane’s smaller suburbs, Hemmant has easy access to the airport as well as being home to its own train station. In 1985, Flannery disappeared, and his body was never recovered.George Freeman was a bookmaker who was involved in organised crime in Sydney during the 70s and 80s. The suburb, located seven kilometres north-west of the city, has good results for cafes and retail but its overall score is let down by poor tree cover and access to primary education.Teneriffe is one of Brisbane’s most popular — and expensive — inner city suburbs, and it scores highly for culture and café, as well as walkability and access to employment. Queensland households saw a 2.2% attempted break-in rate , with a total of 40,700 incidents reported to local authorities. There are also extensive parklands fronting the Brisbane River which boosted its open space ranking.Positioned 25 kilometres south of Brisbane’s CBD, Bethania is a Logan City suburb with ready access to the Pacific Motorway and Beenleigh service centres. Scarborough rated well for cafes but not so well for retail, culture and public transport.One Mile in Ipswich sits just west of its CBD and is bounded in part by the Bremer River. Its Bremer River frontage has appeal, although it was heavily affected in the 2011 flood event. The suburb, about eight kilometres east of the city, scores strongly for its retail sector.
Squizzy was dapper as hell, wearing patent leather shoes, silk socks, fawn gloves, and diamond pin in his silk tie. Lawnton also ranks well for culture and retail in the study.Home to a large primary school, Edens Landing in the Logan council area also has a median age five years below the Australian average and scores well for access to primary education. The suburb has five top 10 scores in the study, including culture, retail, café, train and employment. Jamboree Heights also scores well for its attractive landscape, as well as culture and access to primary education.The Ipswich suburb of Coalfalls sits 1.5 kilometres west of its CBD and is bordered by the Bremer River.
Its cafe and culture scores need improvement and its access to public transport scores are low.Underwood is positioned on the Bruce Highway and includes a number of major commercial operations servicing Logan council residents. Parks are considered a feature in the analysis, scoring relatively well for open space.While this was seen as one of the city’s best known rural residential suburbs offering very high-quality housing on acreage allotments, development has progressed with numerous subdivisions completed over the past 40 years.
Its congestion score was its poorest — not surprising given the major roads that run through the suburb.While Runcorn may be located a fair distance from the CBD – about 19 kilometres – its residents have some of the best access to a train network in the city, according to the study.