New Farm Suburb Profile and Insights

Detailed Insights

New Farm occupies a compact peninsula immediately east of Brisbane’s central business district, with the Brisbane River wrapping around its southern and eastern sides and Fortitude Valley and Teneriffe forming its principal land connections. The suburb is physically small but contains one of Brisbane’s most layered residential markets. Nineteenth-century cottages, Federation and interwar houses, purpose-built 1930s flats, post-war brick units, 1970s and 1980s apartment buildings, major early-2000s riverfront redevelopment and contemporary prestige residences all occur within a street network established long before modern inner-city density.

That layering is the defining property characteristic. New Farm is neither primarily a character-house suburb nor simply an apartment market. Detached houses account for a comparatively limited share of available property but occupy many of the suburb’s most recognisable streets, while apartments range from tiny heritage strata schemes to substantial modern riverfront buildings containing lifts, pools, secure parking and extensive common property.

The traditional subdivision pattern remains visible beneath both housing types. Lots around 405 square metres and 607 square metres recur throughout the residential grid, reflecting older Brisbane subdivision conventions, while larger sites around 800 square metres and occasional amalgamated parcels survive. The same original land dimensions can now support a detached house, duplex-style development, a small block of flats or a much larger apartment building depending on planning history and location.

Villiers Street provides a clear example of the traditional detached-house market. Houses on approximately 405 square metres remain part of the street, including extensively renovated and enlarged residences that use the compact site very differently from the modest cottages originally associated with this land pattern. Private gardens are naturally smaller than in outer Brisbane, but a well-positioned house can still provide a pool, courtyard, garage and several levels of accommodation.

The importance of the 405-square-metre block extends well beyond one street. Similar sites occur through Merthyr Road, Oxlade Drive, Sydney Street and the broader character grid, while some properties sit on even narrower or irregular historical parcels. Site frontage, rear access, existing house position and neighbouring development can therefore be as important as total area.

The 607-square-metre pattern is particularly visible around Sydney Street. Individual detached houses occupy this scale, but the same approximate parent-site area also supports older small unit buildings. A buyer comparing a house with an apartment in the same street can consequently be looking at properties created from the same underlying subdivision but now carrying completely different ownership structures.

Larger traditional holdings survive as well. Oxlade Drive includes houses on sites above 800 square metres, while selected properties elsewhere reflect double blocks or historical amalgamation. These larger sites are scarce enough to create a distinct property type, particularly where they retain detached housing and substantial private garden space close to the river and CBD.

House age varies considerably. New Farm contains some very early residential buildings, including modest workers’ cottages dating from the nineteenth century, together with substantial timber houses from later Victorian, Federation and interwar periods. These buildings demonstrate that residential development began long before the surrounding inner city reached its present scale.

Queenslander construction remains prominent. Raised timber houses with verandahs, lightweight walls and undercroft space occur throughout the character streets, although many have undergone major alteration. Raising and building beneath the original house has allowed owners to create two-level family residences while retaining the historic upper structure and traditional street presentation.

The quality and extent of these alterations differ considerably. One property may preserve extensive original joinery and verandahs, while another uses only the front portion or roof form of the earlier dwelling within a substantially contemporary house. Building inspection, approval records and the relationship between original and later work are consequently meaningful parts of comparison.

Contemporary replacement houses form another visible layer. Modern residences use concrete, masonry, steel, extensive glazing and highly developed indoor-outdoor spaces on sites originally subdivided for much smaller homes. Basement or semi-basement parking, internal courtyards and rooftop or upper-level recreation can compensate for the limited land available at ground level.

The scarcity of detached-house land has encouraged very efficient use of each site. Multiple living levels, integrated garages, pools positioned close to boundaries and compact landscaped areas are common in newer houses. A 405-square-metre New Farm property can therefore contain internal accommodation more closely associated with a much larger suburban site.

Parking remains one of the most practical differences between houses. Some original cottages were built without dedicated vehicle accommodation, while later Queenslanders gained carports or garages beneath the house. Contemporary residences may provide two, three or more secure spaces, making the vehicle arrangement a significant distinction in streets where public parking is shared with apartment residents, visitors and local businesses.

Character planning is central to the way this house market evolves. Parts of New Farm sit within Brisbane’s traditional building character framework, and the New Farm and Teneriffe Hill neighbourhood plan further differentiates low-density, low-medium-density, medium-density and mixed-use areas. A property’s planning context can therefore differ materially from another site only one street away.

The neighbourhood plan identifies low-density living through substantial parts of the character-house streets while allowing stronger medium-density patterns along selected corridors. Mixed-use precincts are concentrated around Brunswick Street, Merthyr Road, James Street and adjoining centres, while New Farm Park and other major open spaces have their own planning role.

This structure helps explain why redevelopment is incremental rather than uniform. A detached character street can remain largely intact while apartment redevelopment occurs nearby, and a small group of older flats can survive between newer buildings because its site, ownership and planning circumstances differ.

Traditional character controls also mean that the presence of an older house should not automatically be interpreted as a simple demolition opportunity. Building age, character contribution, heritage status, zoning and overlay mapping all matter, and local heritage listing applies to selected individual properties in addition to broader character controls.

New Farm contains a particularly rich collection of purpose-built interwar flats. During the 1930s, apartment living became increasingly established in Brisbane’s inner suburbs, and New Farm developed numerous masonry blocks designed in Art Deco, Spanish Mission, Mediterranean and related styles.

Lower Bowen Terrace contains several well-preserved examples. Repton and neighbouring Osmaston were constructed in 1935 and remain local heritage places, illustrating the two and three-storey masonry flat buildings that became fashionable during the interwar period. Their relatively small scale is characteristic of an era when a block might contain only six or eight residences rather than dozens of apartments.

Moray Street contains another important concentration. Delta Flats and Watsonia are among the heritage examples, while other interwar and later apartment buildings extend along the road. The street consequently demonstrates almost a century of apartment development within one corridor.

These older flats are materially different from contemporary apartment buildings. Stair access is common, lifts are rare, common recreation facilities are generally limited and individual parking may be absent or constrained. Common property is simpler, but the building fabric itself can require careful long-term maintenance because roofs, masonry, windows, balconies, plumbing and electrical infrastructure belong to an older construction era.

The apartments can nevertheless provide substantial internal proportions. Interwar flats were often designed as permanent homes rather than compact investment units, with separate kitchens, dining rooms, high ceilings and generous bedrooms appearing in many examples. Renovation can produce a highly contemporary interior while preserving a distinctive external building and shared stairwell.

Parking can be the strongest practical limitation. Some early buildings predate widespread private vehicle ownership and were constructed with no garage or only a small number of spaces added later. A character apartment with no secure parking therefore competes in a very different market from a similarly sized contemporary residence with two basement spaces.

Post-war apartment development added another large housing layer. Two and three-storey brick walk-ups from the 1950s through the 1980s are distributed through Sydney Street, Moreton Street, Oxlade Drive, Merthyr Road, Moray Street and many smaller roads.

A typical example can contain six to twelve one or two-bedroom units on an original 405 or 607-square-metre parent site. Buildings from around the 1970s and 1980s often provide a single garage or carport per residence, external or internal stairs and balconies without lifts or major recreation facilities.

Moreton Street retains examples of this straightforward unit market, including buildings from around 1980. Their ownership structure is generally much simpler than a large riverfront development, and residents share relatively little beyond the building, driveway and basic landscaped areas.

Sydney Street has similar small-unit stock. Buildings from around the mid-1980s sit beside much older houses and larger contemporary residences, reinforcing the street’s highly mixed built form. A two-bedroom walk-up can therefore occupy a parent site almost identical in land size to the detached house next door.

These walk-ups remain significant because they provide one of the more accessible forms of New Farm ownership while retaining the suburb’s strongest lifestyle advantages. Residents can be close to ferries, parks and shopping without paying for lifts, concierge facilities or elaborate recreation areas through the body corporate.

The trade-off can be older building infrastructure, fewer parking spaces and greater reliance on stairs. Ground-floor units may gain easier access or private courtyards, while upper-floor residences can receive better breezes, outlook and privacy without lift convenience.

Oxlade Drive brings almost every major New Farm housing type together. Detached houses remain on traditional and larger sites, small older apartment buildings sit between them, and larger modern apartment complexes occupy substantial parent parcels.

Recent sales demonstrate apartments ranging from compact one-bedroom residences around 50 square metres to three-bedroom homes well above 150 square metres and prestige apartments exceeding 250 or 300 square metres. This range makes bedroom count alone a poor guide to the type of property available along the road.

The older apartment buildings usually have simpler shared infrastructure, while later developments introduce lifts, basement parking, pools and extensive landscaped areas. Contemporary prestige buildings can contain only a small number of very large residences despite their substantial scale, creating a boutique body corporate rather than a high-volume apartment community.

Detached houses on Oxlade Drive are equally varied. Property evidence includes sites around 405 square metres as well as holdings above 800 square metres, reflecting the mix of traditional blocks and larger historical parcels. Some houses sit behind mature gardens, while others have been redeveloped into high-end contemporary homes making intensive use of the land.

The road’s relationship with New Farm Park is another important property distinction. Houses and apartments near the park gain immediate access to a 15-hectare public landscape, allowing residents with limited private outdoor space to use major lawns, gardens and recreation areas only a short distance from home.

New Farm Park itself occupies a large portion of the south-eastern peninsula and interrupts what might otherwise have become continuous residential development. The park’s scale gives surrounding streets an open edge and preserves mature trees, lawns and river frontage within one of Brisbane’s most intensively developed inner suburbs.

Sydney Street is especially closely tied to the park. The road links the interior residential grid with the river and Sydney Street ferry terminal, while its southern end reaches the New Farm Park environment. Houses, small apartment blocks and later attached housing coexist along the street.

Traditional 607-square-metre house sites are well represented here, allowing substantial family residences with larger gardens than the 405-square-metre blocks elsewhere. Some have been comprehensively redeveloped into multi-level homes with pools and secure parking, while other properties retain older building forms.

The presence of smaller apartment buildings on the same street creates a different kind of density from a purpose-built high-rise precinct. A block of four or six units can sit within a streetscape still dominated visually by houses and mature trees.

Merthyr Road provides another major transition between detached housing, apartments and commercial uses. Houses on traditional 405-square-metre sites remain part of the road, while apartment buildings and Merthyr Village introduce much higher levels of activity at selected locations.

This makes street position particularly important. A house or apartment immediately beside the shopping centre offers exceptional convenience but experiences more traffic and customer movement than a property several blocks away on a quiet parallel street.

Merthyr Village is the principal supermarket-based shopping centre within New Farm. Coles anchors the centre, while fresh-food retailers, medical, pharmacy, dental, pathology, post and professional services give it a substantial everyday role beyond grocery shopping.

The centre is integrated directly into the existing street network rather than sitting behind a large suburban arterial. Entrances from Merthyr Road, Brunswick Street and Welsby Street make it part of the surrounding neighbourhood, and several residential streets remain only a few minutes away on foot.

Brunswick Street is the principal mixed-use spine through New Farm. It connects the Fortitude Valley side with Merthyr Road and New Farm Park and carries buses, local traffic, shops, cafés, restaurants and residential development.

The street has several distinct sections. Closer to Fortitude Valley, the commercial environment is stronger and the surrounding building pattern becomes denser. Farther into New Farm, detached houses, small unit buildings and local businesses remain interwoven before the road reaches the large green space of New Farm Park.

Properties fronting Brunswick Street consequently have a different daily environment from those in side streets. Public transport and dining are immediately available, while local traffic, business activity and pedestrian movement are correspondingly more visible.

The James Street precinct immediately beside New Farm adds another major shopping and dining environment. Much of the recognised James Street commercial strip lies in Fortitude Valley, but its proximity is highly relevant to western New Farm streets, where residents can walk to restaurants, boutiques, supermarkets and professional services without those businesses needing to occupy New Farm residential land itself.

The New Farm and Teneriffe Hill neighbourhood plan recognises this mixed-use interface through precincts around James Street, Arthur Street, Brunswick Street and Merthyr Road. The result is a gradual transition between residential New Farm and the more intensive inner-city centres beyond it rather than a hard suburb boundary in everyday use.

Moray Street forms another highly distinctive residential corridor. Interwar flats remain an important architectural layer, while post-war units, detached houses and contemporary prestige apartment buildings provide a broad range of ownership within the same street.

Elevation and river orientation become more important toward parts of Moray Street. Suitable apartments and houses can gain city, district or river outlooks depending on exact position and surrounding buildings, while other addresses are more enclosed by mature trees and neighbouring development.

The street also provides strong walking access toward the river, Merthyr Road, Brunswick Street and the western inner city. This makes it a particularly urban form of residential property despite the presence of substantial heritage architecture.

Lower Bowen Terrace contains another concentrated mix of heritage houses and interwar flats. Its established masonry apartment buildings are significant because they show that New Farm’s high proportion of apartment living is not simply the result of recent redevelopment.

The street also sits close to the western connection toward Howard Smith Wharves and the CBD. Residents can use the riverwalk and surrounding inner-city pedestrian network rather than depending solely on buses or private cars for city access.

New Farm’s major contemporary riverfront redevelopment occurred on the former Colonial Sugar Refining Company site at the eastern end. Cutters Landing was completed in 2003 and created 264 apartments and 85 homes within a planned residential precinct around Lamington Street and Refinery Parade.

The project is significant because it introduced a large coordinated housing layer into a suburb otherwise characterised by incremental redevelopment. Rather than placing a single tower on one block, Cutters Landing transformed a substantial former industrial site into apartments, houses, landscaped open space and riverfront connections.

The former refinery heritage was incorporated into the redevelopment, giving the precinct an industrial layer distinct from New Farm’s timber houses and interwar flats. Parts of the original site and its history remain visible within the contemporary residential landscape.

Apartments at Cutters Landing are generally larger and more comprehensively serviced than the small walk-ups elsewhere in the suburb. Two and three-bedroom residences can exceed 140 or 190 square metres, with balconies, secure basement parking, storage, pools, gyms and landscaped common grounds available within various buildings.

The body corporate structure consequently has more moving parts. Lifts, pools, security systems, gardens, basement infrastructure and substantial building envelopes require long-term funding and maintenance, making sinking funds and scheme records particularly relevant to apartment comparison.

The precinct also contains freehold homes along Lamington Street and adjoining roads. These provide a rare newer detached-housing product within New Farm, combining contemporary construction with riverfront paths and the Powerhouse-New Farm Park setting.

Some of these houses occupy comparatively compact sites and use pools, courtyards and multiple building levels to provide private outdoor living without a large lawn. The ownership experience is therefore closer to a low-maintenance inner-city house than a traditional Queenslander on a 607-square-metre block.

The distinction between a Cutters Landing house and apartment can be substantial despite both belonging to the same broader precinct. The house owner controls the individual site and private exterior, while apartment residents share larger amounts of building and landscape through body corporate ownership.

Lamington Street itself extends beyond the planned development and includes older New Farm housing as well. This creates another point where the early-2000s precinct meets the historic street grid rather than existing as a completely separate estate.

Brisbane Powerhouse is positioned beside New Farm Park and the river at this eastern end. The former power station has been established as a major performing-arts venue, creating cultural activity within a precinct that is otherwise strongly residential and park-oriented.

For nearby property, the Powerhouse and park provide substantial amenity without introducing a conventional entertainment district of bars and nightclubs into every surrounding street. Event activity is concentrated around the venue, park and access roads, while residential streets return quickly to a quieter pattern.

New Farm Park is one of Brisbane’s largest established inner-city parks and covers approximately 15 hectares. Its rose gardens, mature trees, lawns, playgrounds, sporting facilities, river frontage, New Farm Library and ferry terminal allow apartment residents and small-lot house owners to access a scale of outdoor space that would be impossible within most private properties in the suburb.

The park therefore affects property decisions in a similar way to private land. A compact apartment or house can feel less constrained when major recreation is immediately nearby, while direct park-edge property gains a relationship with open space that is scarce elsewhere in inner Brisbane.

New Farm Library sits within the park and adds a civic function to the recreation precinct. The combination of library, sporting facilities, playgrounds, river access and cultural activity makes New Farm Park more than ornamental green space.

The river is another major property influence. Waterfront and near-water apartments are concentrated around the eastern and southern sides, while elevated streets can gain outlooks without direct frontage. Orientation toward the river, city, park or internal gardens differentiates apartments even within the same building.

Direct riverfront ownership should be distinguished from access to public riverwalk. Many properties without private river frontage can reach the water within minutes through New Farm Park, Merthyr Park, the riverwalk and public streets.

Flood planning is relevant to lower river-adjacent land and selected overland-flow areas, but conditions vary substantially within the suburb. Elevated parts of the peninsula have a different relationship with river flooding from lower waterfront sites, and individual buildings can also differ through floor level, basement design and site works.

Current Brisbane City Council flood mapping is therefore more useful than applying one river-risk description to New Farm as a whole. An upper-floor apartment can still share basement or common infrastructure on lower levels, while a detached house may have habitable rooms, parking and services positioned at different elevations within the same site.

The river also shapes transport. New Farm has two important ferry locations, Sydney Street and New Farm Park, giving residents direct access to the CityCat and ferry network along the Brisbane River.

Sydney Street terminal is particularly convenient to the central-eastern residential streets and Merthyr Road area. Residents can reach city, university, South Bank and other riverside destinations without travelling first through Fortitude Valley.

New Farm Park terminal serves the park, Powerhouse and eastern residential precinct. For Cutters Landing and neighbouring properties, the ferry can function as an ordinary commuting option rather than simply recreational transport.

Bus access is strongest through Brunswick Street, Merthyr Road and the connecting central streets. Frequent services provide direct travel toward the CBD, Fortitude Valley and surrounding inner suburbs, while individual residential streets remain largely free of bus traffic.

There is no railway station within New Farm. Fortitude Valley station is the nearest major rail hub for much of the suburb and is within walking, bus or short cycling distance from the western side.

This means New Farm residents have several public transport choices but no single dominant mode. A western apartment owner may walk to Fortitude Valley station, a Brunswick Street resident may rely mainly on buses and a Sydney Street or Cutters Landing household may find the ferry particularly convenient.

Walking is one of New Farm’s strongest practical attributes. The residential grid connects directly with shopping, schools, parks, ferries and surrounding inner-city precincts, and many households can complete a substantial portion of everyday errands without a car.

The New Farm Riverwalk extends that pedestrian network beyond the suburb. Residents can travel along the river toward Howard Smith Wharves and the CBD in one direction and toward Teneriffe and Newstead in the other, creating a continuous recreation and commuting route largely separated from ordinary street traffic.

Cycling benefits from the same connection. The riverwalk and surrounding bikeway network provide a direct path toward central Brisbane, while internal streets allow shorter trips to Merthyr Village, schools and the park.

Topography is modest compared with Brisbane’s steeper inner suburbs but still relevant locally. Parts of Moray Street, Lower Bowen Terrace and the western side gain elevation, while the New Farm Park and riverfront areas are generally flatter. A property can consequently have excellent walking access but still involve a noticeable climb on the return journey from the river.

Private vehicle use remains practical, but parking is one of the suburb’s most variable property features. Character houses can have narrow driveways or garages fitted beneath later alterations, older apartments may have no dedicated space and post-war units commonly provide only one garage.

Contemporary apartments generally provide secure basement parking, although one-bedroom residences may have fewer spaces and visitor capacity varies between buildings. Prestige apartments can include two, three or more car spaces and substantial storage, making parking a material component of value rather than a minor inclusion.

On-street parking demand is strongest around commercial areas, New Farm Park, schools and apartment-heavy streets. A residence with secure off-street parking can therefore provide a different day-to-day experience from an otherwise similar property relying on permits or street availability.

New Farm State School is located within the suburb and provides government education from Prep to Year 6. It has operated since 1901 and occupies the established school site around James and Heal streets. The school operates under an enrolment management plan, making current catchment status relevant to families comparing addresses.

Holy Spirit School provides Catholic co-educational primary education from Prep to Year 6 within New Farm. Established in 1930, it adds a second local primary-school option within the compact suburb.

There is no mainstream government secondary campus within New Farm. Fortitude Valley State Secondary College is nearby and operates under an enrolment management plan, while other government and non-government secondary schools are distributed through the inner-Brisbane area.

The absence of a local secondary campus is less geographically significant than it would be in an outer suburb because surrounding inner-city schools are close and public transport is extensive. Enrolment eligibility and school choice nevertheless need to be treated separately from simple walking distance.

The suburb has no large industrial precinct today, but its eastern riverfront preserves evidence of an earlier industrial role through Brisbane Powerhouse and the former CSR refinery site. Their established adaptive reuse explains two of New Farm’s most distinctive modern precincts without defining the everyday streets as industrial.

This history is important because it created development opportunities different from the small residential lots elsewhere. The Cutters Landing site allowed coordinated riverfront redevelopment at a scale impossible within a street of individually owned 405-square-metre character blocks.

The same contrast continues to shape future property expectations. Large strata schemes, heritage sites, traditional-character streets and mixed-use corridors each respond differently to redevelopment pressure, so the presence of expensive underlying land does not imply a uniform development path.

Older apartment buildings can be particularly complex in this respect. A small interwar block may occupy valuable land but contain multiple independently owned strata lots and heritage or character significance. Redevelopment therefore involves ownership, planning and heritage considerations that are entirely different from replacing a single detached house.

New Farm’s property market is consequently best understood through individual layers. The character-house streets offer scarce freehold land and substantial architectural diversity. Moray Street and Lower Bowen Terrace preserve a deep interwar apartment market, while Sydney Street and Moreton Street add post-war walk-ups among houses.

Oxlade Drive combines detached houses, older units and contemporary prestige apartments. The New Farm Park neighbourhood places traditional residential streets beside exceptional public open space, while Cutters Landing provides a coordinated early-2000s riverfront environment of apartments and newer homes.

These distinctions mean two properties with identical bedroom counts can have almost nothing else in common. A two-bedroom Art Deco flat may have no lift and limited parking but exceptional architectural character. A 1980s walk-up can provide simple body corporate ownership and a garage. A contemporary riverfront apartment may include extensive common amenities and basement infrastructure, while a detached 405-square-metre house transfers almost all maintenance responsibility to the individual owner.

New Farm’s enduring residential character comes from the fact that all of these forms remain visible at once. The suburb has evolved continuously rather than replacing one era wholesale with the next, allowing Brisbane’s early suburban development, interwar apartment architecture, post-war intensification and contemporary riverfront living to coexist within a highly walkable inner-city peninsula.

Lifestyle

Life in New Farm is strongly shaped by the ability to move between home, river, park, shops and the city without making every trip by car. The suburb is compact enough for many daily routines to happen on foot, but the experience differs noticeably between residents living beside Merthyr Village, in the western character streets, around New Farm Park or within the riverfront developments at the eastern end.

The Merthyr Road area provides one of the easiest everyday routines. Merthyr Village contains a full supermarket together with fresh food, medical, pharmacy, postal and professional services, allowing residents of nearby streets to complete substantial household shopping within the neighbourhood.

The centre is surrounded directly by residential property rather than isolated in a regional retail precinct. Houses and apartments around Welsby Street, Merthyr Road, Sydney Street and nearby roads can therefore place groceries and routine appointments only a short walk from home.

Brunswick Street extends this convenience through cafés, restaurants and smaller businesses. The street connects the western side with New Farm Park and carries regular buses, giving households along the corridor a distinctly urban routine while quieter residential streets begin almost immediately behind it.

The James Street precinct on the adjoining Fortitude Valley edge broadens the dining and retail environment further. Western New Farm households can walk to a major concentration of restaurants, food businesses, boutiques and services without needing to live directly within a commercial strip.

This creates several levels of activity within a small area. A house in a side street can remain residential in atmosphere while cafés and shops sit only a few minutes away, whereas an apartment directly on Brunswick Street has a much stronger relationship with passing buses, customers and evening activity.

The traditional house streets offer the most private version of New Farm living. Queenslanders and contemporary houses provide individual entrances, private gardens and pools within an area otherwise strongly associated with apartment housing.

Land is limited enough that outdoor space is used carefully. A 405-square-metre property may have only a compact courtyard or pool garden, while a 607-square-metre block can provide broader lawns, decks and landscaping. Larger historical holdings create significantly more private recreation but are comparatively scarce.

Raised Queenslanders provide another form of usable space. Garages, storage, secondary living areas and indoor-outdoor rooms are frequently incorporated below the original floor, allowing households to expand without consuming the entire backyard.

The mature tree canopy is an important part of these streets. Large established trees soften the relatively dense inner-city housing pattern and create shade over roads, gardens and footpaths, while the architectural variety prevents the neighbourhood from feeling like a uniform prestige estate.

Older flats create a very different lifestyle within the same streets. Residents may have little private outdoor area beyond a balcony or shared garden, but the compact building scale can make the property feel more intimate than a large apartment complex.

An interwar building containing six or eight apartments often has no pool, gym or elaborate common lounge. The wider neighbourhood provides the recreation instead, with cafés, river paths and major parkland performing many of the functions that newer apartment buildings attempt to provide internally.

The same principle applies to post-war walk-ups. A two-bedroom unit with one garage can offer a straightforward home base in one of Brisbane’s most walkable districts without the facilities and management structure of a large tower.

Stairs, smaller balconies and limited visitor parking are part of that housing type, while residents gain a scale of common ownership that can be relatively simple. The appeal depends on whether a household values building facilities or prefers to use the suburb itself as the wider living environment.

New Farm Park is central to that environment. Its approximately 15 hectares of lawns, mature trees, gardens and river frontage give residents access to a scale of green space far beyond what most private inner-city properties can provide.

The park works as a shared backyard for apartment households and small-lot houses. Picnics, children’s play, running, informal ball games and quiet garden walks all occur within the same space, while sporting and community facilities extend its use beyond passive recreation.

New Farm Library sits within the park precinct, allowing a library visit to be combined naturally with playground, ferry or riverside activity. This concentration of civic and recreational facilities is a major part of the day-to-day usefulness of the park rather than simply its visual appeal.

Brisbane Powerhouse adds a cultural routine that is rare within a residential suburb. Theatre, music, comedy, exhibitions and other performances take place beside the park, giving residents direct access to a major arts venue without travelling into the CBD or South Bank.

The venue also supports markets and other community activity around the riverfront precinct. Busy periods bring visitors to the eastern end, but activity remains concentrated enough that internal residential streets preserve a different pace.

Sydney Street sits at the intersection of many of these routines. Residents can walk toward Merthyr Village, New Farm Park, the ferry, riverwalk and local cafés while remaining within a street containing substantial detached houses and small apartment buildings.

The larger traditional blocks in parts of Sydney Street also allow more private family living than many people associate with New Farm. Pools, lawns and multi-level houses can sit within walking distance of major public transport and riverfront recreation.

Oxlade Drive provides another varied daily environment. Some residents occupy detached houses with private gardens, while others live in older units or large contemporary apartments. All share direct access to the park, Merthyr services and the surrounding riverfront network.

The apartment experience changes sharply between buildings. A one-bedroom residence in an established complex may use New Farm Park as its principal recreation space, while a large prestige building can provide pools, gyms, landscaped areas and several secure car spaces within the property itself.

The riverfront Cutters Landing precinct has the strongest managed-residential lifestyle. Landscaped common grounds, riverfront paths, secure parking and apartment facilities create a cohesive environment around Lamington Street and Refinery Parade.

Residents can move directly from their building into walking and cycling routes along the river and toward New Farm Park. This creates a quieter recreational edge to the suburb while Merthyr Village and Brunswick Street remain close enough for ordinary errands.

The freehold houses within Cutters Landing provide a different balance. Private pools, courtyards and garages give households individual space, while the surrounding riverfront precinct supplies the broader landscaped environment.

These homes can work particularly well for residents wanting the independence of a house without maintaining the large garden associated with older 607 or 810-square-metre New Farm sites. Their early-2000s construction also provides a different building and maintenance profile from a raised timber Queenslander.

The Brisbane River is present in daily life even for residents without views. New Farm’s peninsula shape puts public river access within a relatively short walk of most streets, and the riverwalk extends beyond local recreation into practical travel.

Walking west along the river connects New Farm with Howard Smith Wharves and the city centre. The same network continues north through Teneriffe and Newstead, giving residents a long continuous route for running, walking and cycling.

This is particularly valuable for people working in the CBD. Commuting can involve a riverside walk or cycle rather than a bus or car, and the journey itself remains largely separated from the busiest inner-city roads.

Ferries provide another daily option. Sydney Street and New Farm Park terminals allow residents to reach other river precincts directly and make CityCat travel a practical part of work, university and leisure routines.

A household close to Sydney Street terminal can combine the ferry with ordinary errands around Merthyr Road. Cutters Landing and park-side residents have equally strong access to New Farm Park terminal.

Bus travel remains more important for properties away from the river. Brunswick Street and Merthyr Road connect directly with the CBD and Fortitude Valley, allowing residents to use public transport without first reaching a rail station.

The western side can also walk toward Fortitude Valley station. This creates a genuine choice between rail, bus, ferry, cycling and walking that differs by pocket rather than one transport mode dominating the entire suburb.

For households that keep a car, secure parking can strongly influence convenience. An older apartment without a space creates a different routine from a contemporary building with two basement bays, particularly when visitors and local business customers are also using nearby street parking.

Detached houses often provide better private parking but not universally. Narrow historical blocks, early cottages and older under-house alterations can constrain garages, while modern rebuilds frequently devote substantial ground-level space to secure vehicle accommodation.

Families benefit from having two primary schools within the suburb. New Farm State School and Holy Spirit School both provide Prep to Year 6 education, keeping primary-school routines highly local for enrolled households.

New Farm State School’s position toward the western side gives nearby character-house and apartment streets direct access to a local government campus. Holy Spirit School provides a Catholic primary option farther into the suburb.

Secondary schooling generally extends into neighbouring inner-city areas. Fortitude Valley State Secondary College is nearby, while a broad range of independent and Catholic schools can be reached through Brisbane’s inner suburbs.

The absence of a local high school does not create the long travel distances associated with an outer suburb because the surrounding education network is dense and public transport is extensive. Catchment and individual school entry requirements nevertheless remain important.

Healthcare is equally local for routine needs. Merthyr Village includes medical, pharmacy, dental, pathology and related services, while additional practitioners operate throughout New Farm and neighbouring Fortitude Valley, Teneriffe and Newstead.

Major hospital services are available through Brisbane’s inner-city health network rather than one local hospital precinct. The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Mater precinct and other specialist facilities can be reached by road or public transport from the suburb.

New Farm’s restaurant and café environment also has several distinct centres. Brunswick Street has a long-established local role, Merthyr Village provides food and everyday shopping, the James Street precinct expands the western choice and the Powerhouse end adds event and market activity.

This dispersal is useful because no single street needs to carry all local social activity. Residents can choose a quieter home pocket while remaining close to several different dining environments.

The mix of long-term neighbourhood institutions and contemporary hospitality gives New Farm a settled inner-city character. The suburb functions as a place where residents complete ordinary school and grocery routines as well as a destination visited from elsewhere in Brisbane.

Housing choice determines how much of that environment sits inside the property boundary. A detached house can provide a private pool and garden, an interwar flat may offer little more than a balcony and shared entrance, while a contemporary apartment can include extensive recreation facilities.

The public realm reduces the practical gap between them. New Farm Park, riverwalks, ferries, cafés and cultural venues are shared by residents across all housing types, meaning a compact unit can still support a highly outdoor and connected routine.

New Farm therefore offers several forms of inner-city living rather than one prestige lifestyle. Character-house streets emphasise private land and architecture, older flats combine low-rise density with heritage, contemporary apartments provide managed amenity and Cutters Landing adds a planned riverfront setting.

The common advantage is the ability to live close to the centre of Brisbane while retaining a neighbourhood with schools, supermarkets, major parkland and its own strong everyday identity. The property choice determines whether that life is centred on a private garden, a small heritage strata building or a large managed apartment community, but the surrounding suburb remains consistently accessible on foot, bicycle, bus and ferry.

Travel

New Farm has one of inner Brisbane’s broadest combinations of walking, cycling, bus and ferry transport, although there is no railway station within the suburb itself. Brunswick Street and Merthyr Road carry the principal bus network, Sydney Street and New Farm Park provide ferry access, and the riverwalk connects directly toward the CBD and Teneriffe. Private driving remains practical, but road and parking conditions vary considerably between the commercial corridors, traditional house streets and apartment precincts.

Brunswick Street is the main internal transport spine. It enters from the Fortitude Valley side, passes through the centre of New Farm and continues toward New Farm Park, connecting commercial areas, residential streets and public transport within one route.

Frequent buses use the corridor and provide direct connections toward the CBD and surrounding inner suburbs. This gives apartments and houses near Brunswick Street strong public transport access without requiring a transfer at a railway station.

The road also carries substantial local traffic and activity generated by cafés, restaurants and shops. A property directly on Brunswick Street consequently has a more urban frontage than a house or apartment only one block away on an internal residential road.

Merthyr Road is the second major local corridor and is particularly important for everyday household travel. It links the Merthyr Village area with Brunswick Street, Moray Street, Oxlade Drive and surrounding residential pockets.

Bus services and local traffic use the road, while the shopping centre creates periods of greater vehicle and pedestrian activity around its entrances. Residents close to Merthyr Village gain exceptional convenience but should distinguish the immediate retail frontage from quieter parallel streets.

Oxlade Drive follows the southern and eastern residential side close to New Farm Park and the river. It serves a mixture of detached houses and apartment buildings and provides vehicle access toward the park, Merthyr Road and the eastern end of the suburb.

The road is important to apartment residents because many larger buildings rely on basement access directly from it. Vehicle queues, visitor access and garage design can affect individual buildings differently even when they share the same street.

Sydney Street connects the internal residential grid with the Brisbane River and ferry terminal. It also provides straightforward access toward New Farm Park, making it an important local route without functioning as a major cross-city arterial.

This balance supports strong walkability. Residents can use Sydney Street for ferries and local trips while the principal regional traffic remains concentrated elsewhere.

Moray Street is another significant north-south residential connection. Apartments, houses and heritage buildings line the road, while its position provides access toward the western inner city and the riverfront pedestrian network.

Parts of Moray Street are more elevated than the park-side streets, introducing modest gradients for walking and cycling. Properties on higher sections can gain outlook and greater separation from lower river land while remaining close to the city.

New Farm has no motorway within its boundary and no large regional arterial cutting through the residential centre. Vehicle travel toward broader Brisbane generally moves through Fortitude Valley, Newstead or the surrounding inner-city road network before joining major routes.

This preserves a large number of internal streets as local residential roads. Villiers Street, Annie Street, Hawthorne Street, Welsby Street, Moreton Street and many smaller streets carry mostly neighbourhood traffic despite their proximity to the CBD.

The western edge naturally has the quickest road relationship with Fortitude Valley and the city centre. Eastern properties around the Powerhouse and Cutters Landing add several minutes of local road travel but remain geographically close to central Brisbane.

Parking can be more influential than driving distance. Traditional streets were laid out before modern levels of private vehicle ownership, and older houses and flats were not always designed to accommodate several cars per household.

Character houses vary from properties with no original off-street parking to residences with multiple secure garages created through raising, excavation or contemporary reconstruction. Narrow lot frontage can limit driveway width even where the house itself is large.

Older apartment buildings show even greater variation. Interwar flats may have no dedicated parking at all, while post-war walk-ups more commonly provide one garage or carport per residence.

Visitor parking is often limited in small strata schemes. Residents may rely partly on public street spaces, making local parking controls and nearby commercial demand relevant to the everyday use of the property.

Contemporary apartment developments generally provide secure basement parking. One-bedroom residences may have one space or occasionally none, while larger apartments can include two or more spaces and separate storage cages.

Prestige riverfront apartments can provide three or four car spaces within a single title, creating a markedly different ownership experience from a character flat only a few streets away.

Cutters Landing was planned around secure residential parking and internal pedestrian connections, so its transport environment differs from older streets where garages were added incrementally. Houses within the precinct also tend to have integrated contemporary parking arrangements.

Public ferry access is one of New Farm’s strongest transport distinctions. Sydney Street ferry terminal sits on the southern riverfront and provides a practical CityCat and ferry connection for the central and eastern residential streets.

The terminal links New Farm with destinations along the Brisbane River, allowing residents to travel toward the city, South Bank, university precincts and other riverside neighbourhoods without using inner-city roads.

New Farm Park ferry terminal provides a second water-transport option farther east. It serves New Farm Park, Brisbane Powerhouse, Cutters Landing and surrounding residential streets.

For households close to the park, ferry travel can form part of normal commuting and recreation. The terminal’s position means apartment residents can reach public transport while walking through parkland rather than along a major road.

The two terminals also spread ferry access across the suburb. Sydney Street is more convenient to the central grid and Merthyr Road, while New Farm Park is particularly useful to the eastern end.

Walking provides an equally important city connection. The New Farm Riverwalk links the suburb westward through the riverside corridor toward Howard Smith Wharves and the CBD.

The route allows pedestrians to avoid much of the road network and provides a direct relationship with the river throughout the journey. It is used for commuting, running and everyday recreation rather than functioning only as a tourist path.

The riverside network also extends north and east toward Teneriffe and Newstead. This makes New Farm part of a much longer active-transport corridor linking several inner-Brisbane residential and employment precincts.

Cycling benefits from the same infrastructure. Residents can reach the CBD, Teneriffe and other riverfront areas by bicycle without relying entirely on Brunswick Street or other traffic-heavy roads.

Internal cycling conditions vary. Quiet residential streets are generally suitable for short local trips, while the commercial corridors carry more buses, parked vehicles and pedestrian activity.

The relatively compact suburb means cycling distances to most internal amenities are short. Merthyr Village, New Farm Park, schools and ferry terminals can all be reached quickly from most residential streets.

Walking for daily errands is particularly practical around Merthyr Village. Grocery shopping, pharmacy, medical services, food businesses and post services are concentrated within the same centre and surrounded by residential streets.

Brunswick Street adds further walkable dining and services, while the James Street precinct immediately beyond the suburb boundary gives western New Farm another large commercial destination within pedestrian distance.

School travel can also remain local. New Farm State School and Holy Spirit School are both within the suburb, and many nearby households can walk rather than drive depending on age and individual circumstances.

School-day traffic is naturally more concentrated around the campuses during arrival and departure periods. Streets immediately beside New Farm State School have a different weekday pattern from riverfront apartment precincts despite their close geographic proximity.

There is no railway station in New Farm. Fortitude Valley station is the principal nearby heavy-rail hub and provides access to Brisbane’s suburban and regional rail network.

The western part of New Farm can reach Fortitude Valley station on foot from suitable addresses, while residents farther east can use buses, bicycles or other local transport to connect with rail.

The absence of a station within the suburb is less limiting than it would be in a less connected area because buses and ferries provide direct alternatives. A household can choose its transport mode according to destination rather than using rail for every longer trip.

CBD commuting is particularly flexible. Residents can walk along the river, cycle, catch a bus, use the ferry or drive, and each option is practical from different sections of New Farm.

This diversity also reduces the importance of suburb-wide travel-time estimates. A resident near Lower Bowen Terrace can have a very short walking journey into the city, while a New Farm Park apartment owner may find the ferry or bicycle path more convenient despite living farther east.

Airport travel generally begins through the surrounding inner-city road network or by connecting with rail at Fortitude Valley. New Farm’s location keeps Brisbane Airport within the normal inner-city travel environment without airport infrastructure affecting the suburb itself.

Major employment destinations in the CBD, Fortitude Valley, Newstead and Teneriffe are particularly close. Many residents can reach these areas without using a motorway or travelling across the wider metropolitan network.

South Bank, universities and riverfront employment precincts are also well connected by ferry and active transport. This broadens the practical reach of New Farm beyond the CBD alone.

Flood conditions can occasionally affect low riverfront transport infrastructure, but established ferry and pedestrian networks are designed as permanent parts of Brisbane’s transport system. Property-level flood considerations remain separate from the general usefulness of these connections.

The suburb’s internal gradients are moderate overall, but local elevation still matters. Returning from the river toward Moray Street or some western streets can involve a climb, while the New Farm Park and Merthyr areas are generally easier for level walking.

For mobility-limited households, building access can matter as much as street gradient. An older walk-up apartment may require several flights of stairs even where the surrounding neighbourhood is flat, while a contemporary building can provide lift access from basement parking to the residence.

This is another reason transport should be considered as part of the property rather than only the suburb. A lift, secure car space, level street entry and proximity to a ferry or bus can materially change the daily accessibility of an apartment.

New Farm’s transport strength ultimately comes from choice. Brunswick Street and Merthyr Road provide frequent buses, Sydney Street and New Farm Park connect to river transport, Fortitude Valley station sits nearby and the riverwalk gives direct pedestrian and cycling access toward the city and Teneriffe. Detached-house and apartment parking varies widely, but residents who prefer to reduce car use have one of Brisbane’s most complete inner-city networks available around them.

Schools & Amenities

New Farm contains two primary school campuses within the suburb: New Farm State School and Holy Spirit School. Secondary education is provided through surrounding inner-Brisbane communities, while the suburb itself has a substantial network of shopping, healthcare, parks, cultural facilities, library services and public transport concentrated within a compact area.

New Farm State School provides Queensland Government primary education from Prep to Year 6. The school has operated since 1901 and occupies its established campus within the western residential side of New Farm.

The school operates under an enrolment management plan. Current in-catchment eligibility should therefore be confirmed for the individual residential address through Queensland Department of Education mapping rather than inferred simply from living within or close to New Farm.

Its position among established houses and apartments makes it strongly integrated with the surrounding neighbourhood. Students from suitable nearby streets can have a short walking journey, while Brunswick Street and surrounding public transport provide broader access.

Holy Spirit School is also physically located within New Farm and provides Catholic co-educational primary education from Prep to Year 6. The school was established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1930 and remains part of Brisbane Catholic Education.

Holy Spirit adds a second local primary-school option within a suburb small enough that most residential pockets remain geographically close. Its enrolment framework is separate from the government catchment system and should be considered according to the school’s current admissions requirements.

There is no mainstream Queensland Government secondary school within New Farm. Fortitude Valley State Secondary College is located nearby in Fortitude Valley and provides Years 7 to 12.

Fortitude Valley State Secondary College operates under an enrolment management plan with a negotiated catchment. Current eligibility should be checked for the individual New Farm address because proximity to the campus does not by itself establish an enrolment entitlement.

A broad range of independent and Catholic secondary education is available across Brisbane’s inner suburbs. New Farm’s bus, ferry, cycling and nearby rail connections make several surrounding school communities practical without requiring long outer-suburban travel.

Merthyr Village is the principal supermarket-based shopping centre within New Farm. Coles anchors the centre and is supported by fresh-food retailers, cafés and a range of everyday services.

Medical, pharmacy, dental, pathology, optical, postal and professional services are also located within the centre. This gives Merthyr Village a role closer to a complete local service hub than a simple grocery centre.

Its entrances from Merthyr Road, Brunswick Street and Welsby Street integrate the centre closely with surrounding residential neighbourhoods. Many apartment and house residents can reach it on foot rather than treating grocery shopping as a car trip.

Brunswick Street broadens the commercial environment. Cafés, restaurants, smaller retailers, personal services and professional businesses extend through the central spine, with residential property continuing above, behind and between commercial sites.

The James Street precinct immediately adjoining New Farm in Fortitude Valley supplies another substantial concentration of dining, specialty retail, groceries and services. It is particularly accessible from the western side of New Farm and forms part of ordinary local life despite being beyond the suburb boundary.

Teneriffe and Newstead add further dining, supermarkets and professional services to the north. The compact inner-city geography means these adjoining centres often function as part of New Farm residents’ everyday service network rather than distant destinations.

Routine healthcare is well provided locally. Merthyr Village contains a medical centre, pharmacy, pathology, dental and other health services, while additional general practitioners and allied-health providers operate within New Farm and surrounding inner suburbs.

Major hospital services are available through the broader inner-Brisbane health network. The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and Mater hospital precinct are among the significant public and private health environments accessible from New Farm by road or public transport.

New Farm Park is the suburb’s defining public recreation facility and one of Brisbane’s major inner-city parks. It covers approximately 15 hectares beside the Brisbane River and provides a scale of open space far larger than the private gardens available to most New Farm households.

The park includes extensive lawns, mature trees, rose gardens and the historic rotunda together with playgrounds and sporting facilities. Its size allows quiet recreation, organised activity and major community use to coexist within the same landscape.

New Farm Library is located within the park precinct and forms part of the Brisbane City Council library network. This places a permanent civic and learning facility directly beside playgrounds, sport, the river and public transport.

The New Farm Park ferry terminal sits on the river edge and gives the park a direct public transport connection. Residents can combine a park visit with ferry travel, while nearby apartment and house owners use the same terminal for ordinary journeys.

The New Farm Park River Hub adds recreational river access for private and commercial vessels, including kayaks and other small craft under the facility’s operating conditions. It broadens the park’s relationship with the Brisbane River beyond passive waterfront views.

Brisbane Powerhouse is positioned beside New Farm Park and is one of Brisbane’s major arts and performance venues. Theatre, comedy, music, exhibitions and other cultural activity are presented within the converted former power station.

The venue gives New Farm a cultural institution of metropolitan significance within walking distance of residential streets. Its industrial architecture also preserves an important layer of the suburb’s riverfront history beside contemporary housing and parkland.

Markets and community events around the Powerhouse and park add regular activity to the eastern end. These uses are concentrated around major public facilities rather than dispersed through the residential grid.

The Brisbane River provides another extensive recreation network. The New Farm Riverwalk connects the suburb toward Howard Smith Wharves and the CBD and continues through riverside paths toward Teneriffe and Newstead.

Walking, running and cycling can therefore extend far beyond the boundary without requiring residents to use major roads. This makes the riverfront a practical transport corridor as well as recreation space.

Sydney Street ferry terminal provides another direct river-transport point within New Farm. Its position is especially convenient to Sydney Street, Merthyr Road, Moray Street and the surrounding central residential area.

Together with New Farm Park terminal, it gives different parts of the suburb practical access to CityCat and ferry services. This is a major amenity for households that prefer public transport or work and study at riverside destinations.

Merthyr Park provides additional riverfront open space away from the scale of New Farm Park. Smaller parks, reserves and landscaped river edges are distributed through the peninsula and support neighbourhood recreation closer to individual residential pockets.

The riverfront around Cutters Landing provides another important public-space relationship. Paths and landscaped areas connect the early-2000s residential precinct with New Farm Park and the wider riverwalk network.

This is particularly significant for apartment households. Residents can have little private garden but still reach extensive public parkland and riverside paths immediately beyond the building.

New Farm’s sporting environment is anchored strongly by New Farm Park, with tennis, croquet, playing fields and informal recreation available within the park. Additional gyms and sporting facilities are distributed through New Farm and adjoining inner suburbs.

The suburb’s mature streets also support everyday walking independent of formal parks. Tree cover, short blocks and the concentration of destinations allow residents to use walking for errands and social visits rather than only exercise.

Public transport functions as an amenity in its own right. Frequent buses through Brunswick Street and Merthyr Road connect residential areas with the CBD, Fortitude Valley and surrounding inner suburbs.

Fortitude Valley railway station is outside New Farm but close to the western side and provides heavy-rail access across Brisbane and South East Queensland. Residents can reach it on foot, by bus or bicycle depending on their address.

The absence of a railway station within New Farm is consequently balanced by the suburb’s two ferry terminals, bus network and active-transport connections. Different housing pockets have different preferred transport modes rather than one central interchange serving everyone.

New Farm’s amenity pattern closely mirrors its property geography. Houses and apartments around Merthyr Road gain the strongest everyday shopping convenience, western streets sit close to Fortitude Valley and James Street, and Sydney Street combines ferry access with traditional housing and small apartment buildings.

The New Farm Park and Oxlade Drive area places major open space immediately beside detached houses and apartments, while Cutters Landing and Lamington Street provide direct riverwalk and Powerhouse access within an established contemporary residential precinct.

This breadth allows the suburb to support very different ownership types without separating them from community infrastructure. A resident in a 1930s flat, a Queenslander, a 1980s walk-up or a large contemporary riverfront apartment can use the same schools, supermarket, park, library, ferries and local commercial streets.

For prospective property buyers, that shared amenity is one of New Farm’s most durable strengths. The important differences lie less in whether services are available and more in how close the chosen property sits to the particular combination of river, park, shopping, school and transport that best suits the household.

Local Schools

Holy Spirit School (New Farm)
Distance: 0.49 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 277
36 Villiers Street, New Farm
Phone: (07) 3358 2344
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Lourdes Hill College (Hawthorne)
Distance: 0.92 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Year 5 – Year 12
Students: 1,069
86 Hawthorne Road, Hawthorne
Phone: (07) 3399 8888
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New Farm State School
Distance: 0.94 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 539
Cnr James & Heal Streets, New Farm
Phone: (07) 3358 7333
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Norman Park State School
Distance: 1.45 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 364
68-88 Agnew Street, Norman Park
Phone: (07) 3900 5888
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Anglican Church Grammar School (East Brisbane)
Distance: 1.58 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Prep Year – Year 12
Students: 1,887
Oaklands Parade, East Brisbane
Phone: (07) 3896 2200
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Music Industry College (Fortitude Valley)
Distance: 1.61 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Year 11 – Year 12
Students: 90
38 Berwick Street, Fortitude Valley
Phone: (07) 3852 3074
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Sts Peter and Paul's School (Bulimba)
Distance: 1.68 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 609
33 Alexandra Street, Bulimba
Phone: (07) 3399 1281
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Morningside State School
Distance: 1.72 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 475
67 Pashen Street, Morningside
Phone: (07) 3908 2333
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All Hallows' School (Brisbane)
Distance: 1.85 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Year 5 – Year 12
Students: 1,702
547 Ann Street, Brisbane
Phone: (07) 3831 3100
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St James College (Brisbane)
Distance: 2.09 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Year 5 – Year 12
Students: 903
201 Boundary Street, Brisbane
Phone: (07) 3230 8600
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Coorparoo Secondary College
Distance: 2.13 km
State High School
Sector: State
Years: Year 7 – Year 12
Students: 407
Cnr Stanley Street East & Cavendish Road, Coorparoo
Phone: (07) 3394 8888
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Brisbane School of Distance Education
Distance: 2.15 km
School of Distance Education
Sector: State
Years: Early Childhood – Year 12
Students: 3,100
Cnr Stanley Street & Cavendish Road, Coorparoo
Phone: (07) 3727 2444
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Angelorum College (Fortitude Valley)
Distance: 2.15 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Prep Year – Year 10
Students: 64
377 St Pauls Terrace, Fortitude Valley
Phone: 1 800 749 247
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Bulimba State School
Distance: 2.18 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 612
Oxford Street, Bulimba
Phone: (07) 3395 9666
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Fortitude Valley State Secondary College
Distance: 2.21 km
State High School
Sector: State
Years: Year 7 – Year 12
Students: 822
585 St Pauls Terrace, Fortitude Valley
Phone: (07) 3016 8888
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Humanitas High School (Fortitude Valley)
Distance: 2.25 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Year 7 – Year 11
Students: 62
148 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
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East Brisbane State School
Distance: 2.33 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 231
56 Wellington Road, East Brisbane
Phone: (07) 3823 0444
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St Joseph's Primary School (Kangaroo Point)
Distance: 2.40 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 305
26-36 Leopard Street, Kangaroo Point
Phone: (07) 3391 5397
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Brisbane Central State School
Distance: 2.43 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 508
85 Rogers Street, Spring Hill
Phone: (07) 3230 4333
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Balmoral State High School
Distance: 2.59 km
State High School
Sector: State
Years: Year 7 – Year 12
Students: 929
Cnr Thynne & Lytton Roads, Balmoral
Phone: (07) 3823 8588
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The Industry School - Brisbane (Spring Hill)
Distance: 2.69 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Independent)
Years: Year 10 – Year 12
Students: 228
88 Leichhardt Street, Spring Hill
Phone: (07) 3153 5100
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St Joseph's College (Brisbane)
Distance: 2.76 km
Non-State School
Sector: Non-State (Catholic)
Years: Year 5 – Year 12
Students: 1,555
285 Gregory Terrace, Brisbane
Phone: (07) 3214 5200
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Seven Hills State School
Distance: 2.78 km
State School
Sector: State
Years: Prep Year – Year 6
Students: 487
152 D'Arcy Road, Seven Hills
Phone: (07) 3909 8333
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Queensland Children's Hospital School
Distance: 2.94 km
Specific Purpose School
Sector: State
Years: Early Childhood – Year 12
Level 8 Children's Hospital, Raymond Terrace, South Brisbane
Phone: (07) 3004 7888
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