Liveability

Best Family Suburbs in Queensland

Suburbs ranked for families using education access, early-years services, safety, parks and sport facilities from official data.

Meringandan currently leads this Queensland list. Suburbs ranked for families using education access, early-years services, safety, parks and sport facilities from official data. The index is relative to this list (100 = the top suburb here), not an overall suburb rating. Very small localities can rank highly when nearby services score well — check population and housing on each profile before treating a rank as a place to live.

Rank	Suburb	Index
#1	Meringandan	100
#2	Bunya	99
#3	Closeburn	98
#4	Samford Village	97
#5	North Maleny	96
#6	Samford Valley	94
#7	Pinjarra Hills	93
#8	Yugar	92
#9	Hampton	91
#10	Mount Samson	91
#11	Chapel Hill	91
#12	Seventeen Mile Rocks	90
#13	Warana	90
#14	Moggill	89
#15	St Lucia	89
#16	Fig Tree Pocket	89
#17	Springbrook	89
#18	South Mission Beach	89
#19	West Woombye	89
#20	Marcus Beach	89
#21	Graceville	88
#22	Brendale	87
#23	Bingil Bay	87
#24	Auchenflower	87
#25	Ashgrove	87
#26	Holland Park West	87
#27	Gumdale	87
#28	Boreen Point	87
#29	Pine Mountain	86
#30	Bardon	86
#31	Balmoral	86
#32	Brookfield	86
#33	Witheren	86
#34	Karrabin	86
#35	Jacobs Well	86
#36	Westlake	86
#37	Kalinga	86
#38	Kenmore	86
#39	Kenmore Hills	86
#40	Meringandan West	85
#41	Parrearra	85
#42	Springfield Central	85
#43	Tarragindi	85
#44	Lower Beechmont	85
#45	Ferny Grove	85
#46	Bells Creek	84
#47	Highvale	84
#48	Milton	84
#49	Enoggera	84
#50	Dayboro	84

Index shows relative strength within this list. 100 is the top-ranked suburb; lower values are further from the leader, not an overall suburb rating.

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