Ipswich (suburb), Queensland

Ipswich is the innermost suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. The suburb situated on the Bremer River. It is split between the Ipswich CBD in the north, parkland to the east and a mixture of health, educations and residential areas to the south.

Ipswich CBD

The Ipswich CBD is centred around Brisbane and Limestone Streets, and the Ipswich Mall, and includes major supermarkets and chain stores, specialties stores and the many government agencies. Most street parking is controlled by parking meters in business hours.

Heritage listings

Ipswich has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

• Brisbane Street: Former Council Offices, Brisbane Street Ipswich^[1]
• 5 Brisbane Street: Queensland Country Women's Association Girls' Hostel^[2]
• 25 Brisbane Street: Ulster Hotel^[3]
• 89 Brisbane Street: Queensland National Bank - Bank of Queensland^[4]
• 93 Brisbane Street: Action Realty^[5]
• 116 Brisbane Street: Old Town Hall, Ipswich^[6]
• 124 BrisbaneStreet: St Pauls Anglican Church and Rectory^[7]
• 169-175 Brisbane Street: Bostock Chambers^[8]
• 188 Brisbane Street: Baptist Church and Memorial Gate (former), Ipswich^[9]
• 231 Brisbane Street: Flour Mill^[10]
• 277 Brisbane Street: City View Hotel^[11]
• 68 Chermside Road: St Michaels Nursing Home^[12]
• 82 Chermside Road: Ipswich Girls' Grammar School^[13]
• 82 Chermside Road: Lime Kiln Remains^[14]
• 48 d'Arcy Doyle Place (formerly Nicholas Street): St Paul's Young Men's Club - Art Gallery^[15]
• Ellenborough Street: Ipswich Central Mission - Wesleyan Chapel^[16]
• Ellenborough Street: Railway Signal Cabin and Turntable^[17]
• 45 East Street: Ipswich & West Moreton Building Society^[18]
• 59 East Street: Old Ipswich Courthouse^[19]
• 86 East Street: Uniting Church Central Memorial Hall^[20]
• 1 Ginn Street: Ginn Cottage^[21]
• 14 Gray Street: Ipswich Club House^[22]
• Limestone Street: Liberty Hall - Mary Tregear Hostel^[23]
• 22 Limestone Street: St Stephen's Church & Hall^[24]
• 88 Limestone Street: Queen Victoria Silver Jubilee Memorial Technical College^[25]
• 103 Limestone Street: Residence, 103 Limestone St (1879)^[26]
• Mary Street: St Marys Roman Catholic Church Precinct^[27]
• Milford Street: Queen's Park, Ipswich^[28]
• 1A Milford Street: Claremont, Ipswich^[29]
• 10A Milford Street: Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator (former)^[30]
• 11 Murphy Street: Brickstone^[31]
• 63 Nicholas Street: Soldiers' Memorial Hall, Ipswich^[32]
• North Street: North Ipswich Railway Workshops Complex^[33]
• 3 Parker Avenue: Challinor Centre^[34]
• 21 Quarry Street: Central Congregational Church Manse^[35]
• 30 Quarry Street: Toronto, Ipswich^[36]
• 43 Quarry Street: Gooloowan^[37]
• Rockton Street: Rockton, Ipswich^[38]
• 20 Roderick Street: Keiraville, Ipswich^[39]
• 66 Roderick Street: Ozanam House^[40]
• Woodend Road: Ipswich Grammar School^[41]

Transport

Local transport

There are three forms of public train transport servicing the Ipswich region.

• Queensland Rail's Citytrain offers regular services to and from Ipswich CBD to Brisbane, Brisbane Airport, the eastern suburbs, and western suburbs (as far as Rosewood).
• Westside Buslines is the prominent bus company in Ipswich, linking all sides of town to Ipswich CBD; Redbank; Springfield; or Forest Lake (in Brisbane).
• Southern Cross Citilink is a bus which operates between Ipswich and Indooroopilly via Riverlink, Karalee, Chuwar, Karana Downs, Anstead, and Kenmore.
• Queensland Rail buses offer direct daily services to Gatton, Helidon, Fernvale, Lowood, Coominya, Esk, and Toogoolawah.
• An Airport Express Bus operates from Ipswich to Brisbane Airport on a regular basis. Bookings are essential.

Ipswich also has direct access to the Ipswich Motorway (linking to Brisbane); the Cunningham Highway (linking to Warwick); the Warrego Highway (linking to Toowoomba); and the Centenary Highway (linking Springfield and the Ripley Valley to Brisbane).

Long distance transport

• The Westlander train pasts through Ipswich Station once a week to Toowoomba and Charleville.
• Greyhound Australia (coaches) and McCafferty's offer daily direct services to Toowoomba, Mount Isa, Charleville and Sydney from the Ipswich Transit Centre.
• Crisps coaches offer daily direct services to and from Warwick, Queensland and Stanthorpe.

Education

• University of Queensland, Ipswich Campus
• Ipswich Girls' Grammar School, established 1892
• Ipswich Central Primary
• Ipswich Special School
• Auto Trade College
• St Peter Claver College

Health

• Ipswich Hospital Chelmsford Avenue
• St Andrews Private Hospital, Roderick Street

Many GPs and specialists can be found in Brisbane and Limestone Street, and near both hospitals.

Parks and sports facilities

• Queens Park
• Limestone Park (AFL, running track, velodrome, netball)
• Sandy Gallop Golf Course
• BMX track
• Denmark Hill Conservation Park
• Ipswich Show Ground (including indoor sports centre)

Places of worship

• St Mary's Catholic Church, Elizabeth Street
• St Paul's Anglican Church, Brisbane Street
• Calvary Baptist Church, Chermside Street
• Uniting Church, Ellenborough Street
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, cnr Hunter and Haig Streets
• The Salvation Army, South Street
• Jehovah's Witnesses, Salisbury Street
• St John's Lutheran Church, Roderick Street
• Centro Church, Pring Street

Demographics

In the 2011 Census the population of Ipswich is 2,536, 51.6% female and 48.4% male.

The median/average age of the Ipswich population is 37 years of age.

76.5% of people living in Ipswich were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 3.7%, England 3.4%, India 0.9%, Papua New Guinea 0.6%, Malaysia 0.6%.

85.3% of people speak English as their first language 0.7% Cantonese, 0.6% Kirundi (Rundi), 0.6% Malayalam, 0.5% German, 0.4% Mandarin.

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