Sumner is a south-western

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in the

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, Australia. In the , Sumner had a population of 595 people.

Geography

Sumner is south-west of the

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. Sumner is split between residential use in the west and the large industrial estate Sumner Park in the east.

History

The western part of the original land holdings that became the Centenary Suburbs were part of the Wolston Estate, consisting of 54 farms on an area of 3000 acres, offered for auction at Centennial Hall, Brisbane, on 16 October 1901. Wolston Estate is the property of M. B. Goggs, whose father obtained the land forty years previously in the 1860s and after whom Goggs Road is named. Only three of the farms sold at the original auction. In 1879, the local government area of

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was created. In 1891, parts of Yeerongpilly Division were excised to create Sherwood Division becoming a Shire in 1903 which contained the area of Wolston Estate. In 1925, the

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was amalgamated into the

. Sumner was developed as part of the Hooker Centenary Project in 1959. It and the surrounding suburbs such as Jindalee are known as the

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. It was officially named by the

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in 1969. The name came from Sumner Road, which marks the northern boundary. Sumner was a lawyer who visited his property at the end of Sumner Road on the weekends. Centenary Memorial Gardens was established in 2001. Spine Street flooded in the Brisbane suburb of Sumner

Spine Street flooded in the Brisbane suburb of Sumner

Parts of Sumner were flooded in the

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Demographics

In the , the population of Sumner was 539, 48.4% female and 51.6% male. The median age of the Sumner population was 29 years, 8 years below the Australian median. 61.6% of people living in Sumner were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were New Zealand 5.4%, England 4.4%, Sri Lanka 3.5%, India 2.8%, South Africa 2%. 75.4% of people spoke only English at home; the next most popular languages were 2.6% Vietnamese, 2% Sinhalese, 1.8% Punjabi, 1.8% Arabic, 1.1% Maori (Cook Island). In the , Sumner had a population of 595 people.

Education

There are no schools in Sumner. The nearest primary school is Middle Park State School in neighbouring Middle Park to the north-west. The nearest secondary school is

Centenary State High School Centenary State High School is a government secondary (7–12) school at 1 Moolanda Street, Jindalee, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is a co-curricular, co-educational school that opened in 1999. At that time, it catered for stud ...

in Jindalee to the north-east.

Facilities

Centenary Memorial Gardens is a crematorium and cemetery on a site at 353 Wacol Station Road ().

Amenities

There are a number of parks in the area: * Spine Street Park () * Wacol Station Road Park () * Wolston Road Park ()

References

External links

ourbrisbane.com website, Sumner section

Centenary Suburbs Historical Society Inc.
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