What are the largest suburbs in Queensland?

The top-ranked suburbs are Southport, Buderim, Caboolture, Surfers Paradise, Upper Coomera, and more, ordered by a category-specific composite score from official government and open data.

What does the index column mean on ranking pages?

The index shows relative strength within the ranking list. 100 is the top-ranked suburb; lower values are further from the leader. It is not an overall suburb rating out of 100.

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Largest Suburbs in Queensland

Suburbs ranked by estimated resident population from the latest ABS ERP release, allocated to suburb boundaries via area-weighted SA2 overlap.

Rank	Suburb	Population
#1	Southport	40,660
#2	Buderim	34,408
#3	Caboolture	34,305
#4	Surfers Paradise	32,254
#5	Upper Coomera	31,478
#6	Pimpama	30,874
#7	Morayfield	29,759
#8	Redbank Plains	29,403
#9	Robina	28,456
#10	Springfield Lakes	25,686
#11	Narangba	25,589
#12	Forest Lake	25,117
#13	North Lakes	24,671
#14	Maroochydore	24,264
#15	Coomera	24,214
#16	Kallangur	24,140
#17	Thornlands	21,956
#18	Kirwan	21,921
#19	Helensvale	21,244
#20	Emerald	20,453
#21	Deception Bay	20,368
#22	Sunnybank Hills	20,256
#23	Redland Bay	20,198
#24	Calamvale	19,906
#25	Labrador	19,620
#26	Capalaba	19,300
#27	Burpengary	19,279
#28	Coorparoo	19,082
#29	Caboolture South	19,065
#30	Bracken Ridge	18,877
#31	The Gap	18,701
#32	Palm Beach	18,444
#33	Hope Island	18,201
#34	Ormeau	18,167
#35	Carindale	18,146
#36	Varsity Lakes	18,027
#37	South Brisbane	17,963
#38	Nerang	17,702
#39	Albany Creek	17,426
#40	Pacific Pines	17,413
#41	West End	17,365
#42	Alexandra Hills	17,310
#43	Inala	17,173
#44	Mango Hill	17,099
#45	St Lucia	17,046
#46	Cleveland	16,937
#47	Marsden	16,724
#48	Eight Mile Plains	16,530
#49	Victoria Point	16,137
#50	Rochedale South	16,089

Population is ABS Estimated Resident Population allocated to suburb boundaries via area-weighted SA2 overlap. Not an official ABS suburb-level figure.

Last updated 28 July 2026 at 1:38 am AEST

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