Burpengary is a town and suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the suburb of Burpengary had a population of 16,488 people.
It is 38.9 kilometres (24.2 mi) by road from the Brisbane central business district.
Burpengary is one of the City of Moreton Bay's fastest growing residential areas.
The name is derived from the Aboriginal word burpengar, meaning the "place of the green wattle".
When Europeans settled in Burpengary in the 1870s, the industry was mainly timber-cutting.
Burpengary Provisional School opened on 9 November 1876. On 1 January 1909 it became Burpengary State School. It closed and re-opened a number of times as student numbers fluctuated.
The town of Burpengary was initially founded as a large truckstop due to its strategic location on the North Coast Road (now the Bruce Highway) from Brisbane to the North Coast (now the Sunshine Coast). Burpengary is still home to a functional truck weigh-bridge.
St Eugene College (Burpengary's first secondary school) opened on 1 December 1989.
Burpengary Library opened in 1994 and had a major refurbishment in 2016.
Historically, Burpengary has been a predominantly blue-collar suburb with a significant proportion of the population directly employed in a labouring or trade-related jobs. However, with expanding planned communities, access to the M1 and council approving plans for mini city initiatives, more and more families are moving to the locality including those in the professions. This is fuelling economic growth with the expansion of the shopping precinct, local services and increasing pressure on the local transport infrastructure since 2005.
Burpengary Meadows State School opened in 2007.
Burpengary State Secondary College opened in 2015, offering years 7 and 8 initially.
Redwood College opened in 2018 for distance education only, but on completion of its campus, expects to enrol on-campus students from 2020.
In the 2016 census, the suburb of Burpengary had a population of 14,022 people, with 51% females and 49% males. The median age of the Burpengary population was 37 years of age, 1 year below the Australian median. Children aged under 15 years made up 20.7% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 13.6% of the population. 78.6% of people living in Burpengary were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 4.7%, New Zealand 4.2%, South Africa 0.7%, Philippines 0.7%, and Scotland 0.6%. 90.7% of people spoke only English at home; the next most popular languages were Samoan (0.4%), Mandarin (0.3%), Tagalog (0.3%), Dutch (0.3%), and Afrikaans (0.2%).
In the 2021 census, the suburb ofBurpengary had a population of 16,488 people.
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