North Lakes is a suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, North Lakes had a population of 23,030 people.
North Lakes is situated in the Yugarabul traditional Indigenous Australian country.
North Lakes State College opened on 1 January 2002.
The Lakes College opened on 24 January 2005.
Originally part of Mango Hill, North Lakes was gazetted as a separate suburb by the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Water in February 2006. The origin of the suburb name is from the name given to the estate development.
North Lakes Business Park started construction in 2007 and is planned to take more than ten years to fully complete.
Bounty Boulevard State School was opened on 1 January 2009.
The North Lakes Library opened in 2014.
Plantation Road Bridge over the Bruce Highway linking North Lakes to Dakabin along Plantation Road opened on 12 December 2014.
The North Lakes Golf Club closed on 11 August 2019 with the land to be sold for a retirement village. Residents were upset by the decision as they chose to live in the area because of the green space of the golf course.
In the 2011 census, North Lakes had a population of 15,046 people, 51.6% female and 48.4% male. The median age of the North Lakes population was 31 years, 6 years below the national median of 37. 63% of people living in North Lakes were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 9.2%, New Zealand 8.7%, South Africa 3.9%, Philippines 1.3%, Scotland 1%. 86.6% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.5% Afrikaans, 0.8% Hindi, 0.7% Tagalog, 0.7% Spanish, 0.5% German.
In the 2016 census, North Lakes had a population of 21,671 people. North Lakes includes the largest South African Australian community of any suburb in Queensland, numbering 809 individuals and making up 3.7% of the suburb's population.
In the 2021 census, North Lakes had a population of 23,030 people.
History info courtesy of Wikipedia
