Home to a number of schools, the suburb comes in at number one for access to primary education and ninth for access to secondary education. 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. Alexandra Hills also ranks highly for its access to coast and beach, thanks to its Redland City location.
The suburb, about 11 kilometres north of the city, ranks highly for its coastal and beach lifestyle. Seven Hills always has excellent access to employment.Mansfield has an abundance of bush and parklands courtesy of its agricultural history. Fitzgibbon also scores strongly for cafes and trains.A small suburb adjacent to Nudgee, Northgate has excellent coastal and beach access. These days, it has an enviable café lifestyle, as well as a number of education offerings for both primary and secondary students, as well as direct access to the UQ campus at St Lucia via the Eleanor Schonell Bridge.
However, when it comes to liveability, Ashgrove is about much more than its beautiful houses. The suburb is considered one of the best for tree cover as well as being highly walkable. Growing up in a relatively small town (Ayr, Qld) and moving down to Brisbane for a job in 2014, I was worried about the same thing. The suburb has excellent access to employment as well as secondary education.Stafford Heights has come of age over recent years during to renovation and gentrification. New Farm’s overall score is let down by poor access to secondary education, a lack of tree cover and, significantly, congestion.Located about 40 kilometres from the Brisbane metropolitan area, West Ipswich has one of the city’s most attractive landscapes – in fact, it has one of the top scores for topographic variation in the study. The suburb also scores strongly for bus networks and access to employment, with solid scores for retail and café precincts. The suburb, just a few kilometres north of the city, also has culture and retail in spades as well as excellent access to employment. The suburb also has a varying landscape, which not only boasts plenty of tree cover it is highly walkable.Located adjacent to Sandgate, Deagon also scores highly for its coastal and beach location, however that’s closely followed by its strong access to secondary education score. Its scores for cafe and culture were below average, as was its access to buses.Augustine Heights is one of the newer suburbs created within Greater Springfield, Australia’s largest master planned community. Kingston, about 24 kilometres from the city, also scores strongly for open space and trains.One of Brisbane’s newest and smallest suburbs, the northern suburb of Fitzgibbon has an enviable amount of open space for residents to enjoy. Median House price= $757,500 / Median Unit price= $510,000. Northpine Christian College helps lift access to secondary school education, while ready highway access also promote its beach access ranking.Camira provides established post-1960s housing just south of the Ipswich highway.
It’s seen as a strong location for culture in the analysis with train access also scoring well. It ranks highly for access to primary schools, access to trains and coast and beach. Morningside, about five kilometres east of the CBD, also scores well for secondary education, as well as walkability.
Carseldine, about 16 kilometres north of the city, also ranks well for coastal and beach as well as open space.With an abundance of parks, bushland and waterways, Tingalpa scores highly for its multiple open spaces.