Virginia, Queensland

Virginia is a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located 10 km north of the Brisbane central business district. It is primarily a residential suburb with many timber and tin Queenslander style housing. The suburb was named after the Virginia Brick Company, founded in 1897, near the Virginia Railway Station, which the station opened in 1888.

One of Brisbane Transport's bus depots is based in Virginia.

Demographics

In the 2011 Census the population of Virginia is 2,061, 49.8% female and 50.2% male.

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

74.6% of people living in Virginia were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 4%, England 2.5%, India 1.6%, China 1.4%, Papua New Guinea 0.7%.

83.7% of people speak English as their first language 1.3% Mandarin, 1% Punjabi, 0.7% Japanese, 0.5% Filipino, 0.5% Spanish.

Transport

Virginia railway station and Bindha railway station provides access to regular Citytrain services to Brisbane and Shorncliffe.

References

↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Virginia (QLD, State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 16 July 2013.

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Coordinates: 27°22′34″S 153°03′54″E / 27.376°S 153.065°E / -27.376; 153.065 (Virginia)

v t e Suburbs of the City of Brisbane, Queensland

North side	Albion Alderley Ascot Aspley Bald Hills Banyo Boondall Bowen Hills Bracken Ridge Bridgeman Downs Brighton Brisbane Airport Brisbane CBD Carseldine Chermside Chermside West Clayfield Deagon Eagle Farm Enoggera Everton Park Ferny Grove Fitzgibbon Fortitude Valley Gaythorne Geebung Gordon Park Grange Hamilton Hendra Herston Kedron Kelvin Grove Keperra Lutwyche McDowall Mitchelton New Farm Newmarket Newstead Northgate Nudgee Nudgee Beach Nundah Pinkenba Sandgate Shorncliffe Spring Hill Stafford Stafford Heights Taigum Teneriffe Upper Kedron Virginia Wavell Heights Wilston Windsor Wooloowin Zillmere

West side	Anstead Ashgrove Auchenflower Bardon Bellbowrie Brookfield Carole Park Chapel Hill Chelmer Chuwar Corinda Darra Doolandella Durack Ellen Grove Enoggera Reservoir Fig Tree Pocket Forest Lake Graceville Heathwood Inala Indooroopilly Jamboree Heights Jindalee Karana Downs Kenmore Kenmore Hills Kholo Lake Manchester Middle Park Milton Moggill Mount Coot-tha Mount Crosby Mount Ommaney Oxley Pallara Paddington Petrie Terrace Pinjarra Hills Pullenvale Red Hill Richlands Riverhills St Lucia Seventeen Mile Rocks Sherwood Sinnamon Park Sumner Taringa The Gap Toowong Upper Brookfield Wacol Westlake Willawong

South side	Acacia Ridge Algester Annerley Archerfield Berrinba Burbank Calamvale Coopers Plains Drewvale Dutton Park Eight Mile Plains Fairfield Greenslopes Highgate Hill Holland Park Holland Park West Karawatha Kuraby Larapinta Macgregor Mackenzie Mansfield Moorooka Mount Gravatt Mount Gravatt East Nathan Parkinson Robertson Rochedale Rocklea Runcorn Salisbury South Brisbane Stretton Sunnybank Sunnybank Hills Tarragindi Tennyson Upper Mount Gravatt West End Wishart Woolloongabba Yeerongpilly Yeronga

East side	Balmoral Belmont Bulimba Camp Hill Cannon Hill Capalaba West Carina Carina Heights Carindale Chandler Coorparoo East Brisbane Gumdale Hawthorne Hemmant Kangaroo Point Lota Lytton Manly Manly West Moreton Island Morningside Murarrie Norman Park Port of Brisbane Ransome Seven Hills Tingalpa Wakerley Wynnum Wynnum West

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