Beenleigh QLD

Beenleigh is a suburb in the Logan City area of Brisbane Queensland, Australia. Beenleigh and adjoining suburbs are located near the confluence of the Logan and Albert rivers. Whilst it was once a stand-alone town built on sugar and home to Australia's oldest rum distillery built in 1864, increasing development in South East Queensland since the 1980s has seen it enveloped by Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

At the 2011 Australian Census the suburb recorded a population of 8,244.

Demographics

In the 2011 Census the population of Beenleigh is 8,244, 49.5% female and 50.5% male.

The median/average age of the Beenleigh population is 34 years of age, 3 years below the Australian average.

66.9% of people living in Beenleigh were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 8.1%, England 3.4%, Philippines 1.1%, Brazil 0.6%, Germany 0.5%.

81.5% of people speak English as their first language 0.7% Portuguese, 0.6% Tagalog, 0.6% Vietnamese, 0.4% Spanish, 0.3% German.

History

Beenleigh was first colonised in the 1860s, with the first permanment European settlement occurring by John Davy and Frank Gooding who named their sugar cane plantation Beenleigh in memory of their family estate in Devonshire, England. The first sugar cane mill was built in 1867 and by 1885 another 29 were operational.