Statistics and Facts

Logan is one of the largest and fastest growing cities in Australia. Logan City Council, a progressive leader in local government, provides community services and facilities to its residents, as part of its vision for Logan to be a "city of opportunities for families, lifestyle and business".

This page page shows information about the Logan region. A document of the information is also available below:

About Logan City

  • 63 suburbs
  • 957 square kilometres (229 square kilometres before March 2008. The area formerly part of the Gold Coast area was 49 square kilometres and the area formerly part of Beaudesert Shire was 635 square kilometres)
  • The city is divided into 12 divisions with each division being represented by a Councillor. Local government elections are held every four years usually on the last Saturday in March.

Queensland local government areas by population

Queensland local government areas ranked by population (2011 Census)
Local Government Areas
 Population
Brisbane City Council
 1,089,743
Gold Coast City Council
 513,954
Moreton Bay Regional Council
 389,661
Sunshine Coast Regional Council
 316,858
Logan City Council
 287,517
Townsville City Council
 180,389
Ipswich City Council
 172,147
Cairns Regional Council
 162,740
Toowoomba Regional Council
 154,931
Redland City Council
 143,628

Australian local government areas by population

Australian local government areas ranked by population (2011 Census)
Local Government Areas
 Population
Brisbane City Council
 1,089,743
Gold Coast City Council
 513,954
Moreton Bay Regional Council
 389,661
Sunshine Coast Regional Council
 316,858
City of Blacktown (NSW)
 301,099
Logan City Council
 287,517
City of Casey (Vic)
 252,382
Sutherland Shire (NSW)
 210,863
City of Greater Geelong (Vic)
 210,875
City of Wollongong (NSW)
 192,418

State and federal electorates in Logan:

  • State: Albert, Algester, Beaudesert, Lockyer, Logan, Redlands, Springwood, Waterford, Woodridge
  • Federal: Forde, Rankin, Wright

Our population

How many of us live here?

  • 287,517 residents (Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2011).
  • Before boundary changes in 2008, population was 175,000.
  • Our population is increasing by two per cent each year
  • We are the sixth largest local government area in Australia in terms of population

Where do we come from?

  • 215 ethnicities represented.
  • 26.1 per cent of people were born overseas (Queensland: 20.5 per cent; Australia: 25.7 per cent).
  • The top countries of birth (outside Australia) for people living in Logan include (in order from highest):
    • New Zealand
    • England
    • Philippines
    • South Africa
    • Samoa
    • Scotland
    • Fiji
    • India
    • Germany
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Netherlands
    • China
  • Top 11 languages other than English spoken at home in order from highest:
    • Samoan
    • Mandarin
    • Hindi
    • Spanish
    • Vietnamese
    • Arabic
    • Khmer
    • Cantonese
    • Tagalog
    • German
    • Romanian
  • Of the people born overseas, 27,115 or 37.3 per cent speak English and another language. This equates to approximately 13,800 households or 15.2 per cent where two or more languages are spoken.
  • From 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2012, 7,766 people were settled in Logan. Of these, 2,538 (32.7 per cent) were from the humanitarian migration stream.

How old are we?

  • Median age is 33 years
  • 31 per cent of the population is aged under 20 years

Want more information about our population?
Get more data from the Logan City Council's profile.id website

Our economy

  • Our city's input is $19.106 billion
  • More than 21,000 businesses employing 73,592 people
  • Gross regional product: $9.663 billion
  • 92.7 per cent of the labour force is employed either full-time or part-time
Get more data from the LOED Economic Profile.

Our history

Original inhabitants from the Yugambeh and Jaggera language groups

  • Logan area settled by Europeans in 1842
  • Logan Shire created on 8 June 1978
  • Logan Shire Council begins operations on 1 July 1979
  • Logan City proclaimed on 1 July 1981
  • Logan City's boundaries expand on 15 March 2008

Read a more detailed history of Logan.

About Logan City Council

General information

  • 2012/2013 budget: $715.3 million (2011/2012: $446.9 million - excludes water and wastewater services)
  • $3.4 billion in assets (excluding water and sewerage)
  • 110,000 rateable properties (80,000 properties connected to water services and 78,000 properties connected to wastewater services)
  • 1,600 employees, including full-time, part-time, casual and temporary employees (1,400 employees before 1
  • July 2012 when we resumed responsibility for water and wastewater services)

What we provide for the community

Infrastructure

  • 2,136 kilometres of roads (including 85 kilometres of unsealed roads)
  • 171 kilometres of bikeways
  • 1,012 kilometres of footpaths
  • 1,898 kilometres of water mains and 1,928 kilometres of sewer mains; 29 pump stations and five water treatment plants
  • 924 parks - total area is 6,480.5 hectares, of which 1,261.7 hectares is bushland
  • 195,200 tonnes of waste handled each year (42,000 tonnes is recycled, including 23,100 tonnes of green waste). The Browns Plains landfill also produces enough energy from its gas-powered cogeneration plant to
    power approximately 2,000 homes.
Road infrastructure by division
Division
 Sealed Roads (km)
 Unsealed Roads (km)
 Bridges*
1
 102
 0
 0
2
 115
 0
 0
3
 131
 0
 3
4
 279
 12
 6
5
 146
 0.2
 4
6
 119
 0.5
 2
7
 206
 1.4
 4
8
 138
 1.2
 3
9
 248
 14
 1
10
 145
 2.7
 1
11
 364
 23
 22
12
 140
 0
 2
Total
 2,136
 85
 48

*includes boundary bridges, which are captured in both divisions

Community facilities

  • Six aquatic centres
  • Three indoor sports centres and 116 sporting facilities
  • Seven community venues
  • Nine libraries - in 2011/2012, almost 1.3 million people visited our libraries
  • One art gallery - in 2011/2012, more than 15,000 people visited the gallery
  • 30 community and neighbourhood centres
  • Six cemeteries (Beenleigh, Eagleby, Parkhouse, Maclean, Chambers Flat and Logan Village) - we also
    maintain several historic cemeteries around the city.

Health and community wellbeing

  • With six immunisation clinics, in 2011/2012, we:
    • vaccinated 3,042 people at our community immunisation clinics (1,759 were infants to 6 years old, 422 were school students, 677 were adults and 184 were Council staff).
    • A further 389 people were vaccinated in their homes as part of the new outreach program.
    • 11,180 Year 8 and 10 high school students were vaccinated during school clinics.
    • Approximately 90 - 95 per cent of the population is covered by vaccination.
  • We support local community events every year with $200,000 in funding
  • In 2010/2011, more than 4,000 points of contact, including 470 individual meetings with businesses and 231 workshops, were made with small or home-based businesses through the BizConnect Centre.
  • We actioned 5,169 graffiti removal customer service requests in 2011/2012.
  • We had the following audits/renewals of licensed premises in 2011/2012:
    • ERA licences (including motor vehicle workshops, boiler making, metal fabrication, poultry farms): 468
    • Dangerous goods licences: 113
    • Food business licences: 1,347
    • Higher risk personal appearance services licences: 17
    • Prescribed activity licences: 19
  • In 2011/2012, our animal management centre:
    • Sold 188 cats, 315 dogs and 44 birds.
    • Impounded 2,797 cats (153 were returned to their owner/s, 161 were sent to welfare organisations and 2,101 were euthanised).
    • Impounded 4,576 dogs (2,187 were returned to their owner/s, 410 were sent to welfare borganisations and 1,504 were euthanised).
    • Registered 6,639 cats and 43,549 dogs.
  • Our sister cities
    • Hirakata City, Japan
    • Shibukawa City, Japan
    • Suzhou City, China
    • Taoyuan City, Taiwan
    • Wenling City, China
    • Xuhui District, China