Sunnybank Hills, Queensland - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Sunnybank Hills is an outer southern suburb of Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

about 15 kilometres from Brisbane CBD

Brisbane central business district

The Brisbane central business district , sometimes referred to as the city, is a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and is located on a point on the northern bank of the Brisbane River. The triangular shaped area is bounded by the Brisbane River to the east, south and west...

, in Queensland

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, Australia

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. It is a large suburb, and adjoins the suburbs of Calamvale

Calamvale, Queensland

Calamvale is a suburb on the south side of the city of Brisbane, Australia. A relatively large suburb, it adjoins Stretton, Parkinson, Sunnybank Hills, Acacia Ridge, Algester and Drewvale. It is 18 kilometres from Brisbane's central business district....

, Coopers Plains

Coopers Plains, Queensland

Coopers Plains is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is south-west of the CBD.-Transport:Coopers Plains railway station provides access to regular Citytrain services to Brisbane, Beenleigh and Gold Coast. There are many buses passing Coopers Plains, which are 120 , 135 , 123 , 598 and 599...

, Sunnybank

Sunnybank, Queensland

Sunnybank is now a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia much reduced in size from the previous suburb of Sunnybank. The separate Town of Sunnybank was absorbed into the City of Brisbane. This older Sunnybank area is still known locally as Sunnybank...

, Macgregor

Macgregor, Queensland

Macgregor is a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Its postal code is 4109. It is in the Australian Federal electorate of Moreton and its current member is the Honourable Mr Graham Perrett MP. Most of Macgregor is in the Queensland state electorate of Sunnybank, with only the northern tip...

, Algester

Algester, Queensland

Algester is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is south-west of the central business district.Algester was heavily developed after the Second World War and has also seen considerable recent development. It forms part of the Brisbane Agricultural Reserve, which once covered a...

, Acacia Ridge

Acacia Ridge, Queensland

Acacia Ridge is a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Acacia Ridge is south of the central business district. The population in the 2001 census was 6648....

and Runcorn

Runcorn, Queensland

Runcorn is a suburb on the south side of Brisbane, Queensland, and is about from Brisbane’s central business district. The Jagera Aboriginal people occupied most of the land south of the Brisbane River and Runcorn would have been in the territory of the Chepara clan of Eight Mile Plains, Queensland...

History

Sunnybank Hills was originally part of a much larger area known as Coopers Plains. In 1885, the railway line was extended from Yeerongpilly

Yeerongpilly, Queensland

Yeerongpilly is a suburb of in Brisbane, Australia. It is 8 km south of the Brisbane central business district.Yeerongpilly is derived from the Aboriginal words "yarung" meaning sandy or gravelly or "yurong" meaning rain and "pilly" meaning gully or watercourse.Yeerongpilly grew from an area...

, and names had to be given to the railway stations built along the line. One of the stations was named after a local farm, Sunny Brae, when 2 acres (8,093.7 m²) of land were taken over for the railway. Brae is the Scottish word for the English word bank, so the area was given boundaries and named Sunnybank. The area of Sunnybank Hills was officially defined in 1971, although it had been unofficially called this for many years.http://www.brisbites.com/suburbView.asp

Geography

Sunnybank Hills has numerous ridges and hills, with lower wetter areas in the north and east. These form the marshes near Sunnybank and Runcorn

Runcorn

Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port within the borough of Halton in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. In 2009, its population was estimated to be 61,500. The town is on the southern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form Runcorn Gap. Directly to the north...

railway stations.http://www.brisbites.com/suburbView.asp There are many parks and greenspaces in the area. The soil is fertile and watered by numerous small creeks, including a large one that flows north–south across the suburb, and the suburb borders on the small wildfowl habitat and wetlands of neighbouring Calamvale Creek

Calamvale Creek

Calamvale Creek is a small natural creek that runs through the Brisbane suburb of Calamvale, in Queensland, Australia. It is the local name for part of a longer channel known as Scrubby Creek...

Population

Sunnybank Hills is a very multicultural suburb. Around 51% of households in the area are couples with children, 31% are couples without children, and 14% are single-parent households. Eighty-eight per cent of the dwellings in the area are stand-alone houses; townhouses account for another 8%. The houses are mainly modern brick and tile houses but there is a sprinkling of post-war weatherboard homes in the area. There were 16,442 people living in Sunnybank Hills during the 2004 census, with most aged under 25.http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/305051552Population/People12000-2004?opendocument&tabname=Summary&prodno=305051552&issue=2000-2004&num=&view=

Shopping

The suburb is serviced by several shopping centres. These include Shauna Downs on the corner of Wynne Street and Beenleigh Road, Centro Pinelands on Mains Road, and the large Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown on the corner of Compton & Calam Roads. Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown features a Woolworths

Woolworths (supermarkets)

Woolworths is the largest supermarket chain in Australia, owned by Woolworths Limited.-History:Woolworths Limited was founded in 1924, with the first store opening up in Sydney's Imperial Arcade.-2008 rebranding:...

supermarket and the southside's only Pick 'n Pay Hypermarket

Pick 'n Pay Hypermarket

Pick 'n Pay hypermarkets are a chain of hypermarkets in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia owned by Wesfarmers. There are two stores located at Aspley and Sunnybank Hills...

(formerly a Coles and Kmart as separate stores until the mid 1990s), Homeart, Priceline

Priceline

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, Best & Less, Crazy Clarks, Lincraft

Lincraft

Lincraft is a retail chain in Australia that specialises in the sale of homewares, including crafts, material, and patterns. As of May 2009, it has 44 locations around Australia.Lincraft was founded in 1938 by Leo Ross as a stall shop in Melbourne....

, Aldi

ALDI

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, library and a number of specialty stores.

Dining

Approxamatly 25% (ABS 2006 Census)of the population is Asian born, and the cultural scene is brought to life with many Asian restaurants, along with numerous coffee shops and eateries of many cultures. Restaurants in Sunnybank Hills and neighbouring Sunnybank

Sunnybank, Queensland

include Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Italian cuisines.

Petrol Stations & Convenience Stores

There is a number of convenience stores that are open 24 hours a day but a majority are part of several Petrol Stations which are location on Pinelands Road which runs through Sunnybank Hills. A number of these service stations like the Caltex Woolworths Petrol Station Sunnybank Hills of these also serve as local mechanical workshops for the area.

Society and education

Churches in Sunnybank Hills include the Southside International Church on the corner Pinelands and Beenleigh Roads, and Sunnybank Hills Uniting Church on the corner of Hellawell Road and Hillcrest Street. The local school is Sunnybank Hills State School in Symons Road. An Autistic Children's Therapy Centre is also located along Hellawell Rd.