Regency Downs is a mixed-use

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in the

Lockyer Valley Region The Lockyer Valley Region is a local government area (LGA) in the West Moreton region of South East Queensland, Australia. The region is located between the cities of Ipswich and Toowoomba, and is bordered by the Somerset and Southern Downs ...

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, Australia. In the , Regency Downs had a population of 2,623 people, an increase of 12% from the (2,306 people).

Geography

Regency Downs is located in the

Lockyer Valley The Lockyer Valley is an area of rich farmlands that lies to the west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and east of Toowoomba. The Lockyer Valley is rated among the top ten most fertile farming areas in the world, and the intensively cultiv ...

and is immediately north of the

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and Plainland and east of Glenore Grove. It is approximately 75 kilometres from

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and 55 kilometres from

Toowoomba Toowoomba ( ), nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar', is a city on the border of South East Queensland and Darling Downs regions of Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital, Brisbane. The urban population of Toowoom ...

. The Lockyer Valley Regional Council is the local government authority for Regency Downs. Historically a rural area, it has increasingly been subdivised into

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house sites reducing the agriculture in the locality. The predominant land use is housing with the remainder of the land used for

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on native vegetation.

History

The locality was named and bounded on 3 June 1994 and amended on 26 May 2000. The district was re-

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on 29 August 2008 due to local council amalgamations under the ''Local Government Reform Implementation Act 2007.''

Demographics

The population of Regency Downs has consistently grown from 2006 to 2021.

Education

There are no schools in Regency Downs. The nearest government primary schools are: * Glenore Grove State School in neighbouring Glenore Grove to the west * Lockrose State School in neighbouring Lockrose to the north * Hatton Vale State School in neighbouring

Hatton Vale Hatton Vale is a rural locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Hatton Vale had a population of 1,555 people. Geography Hatton Vale is in South East Queensland and on the Warrego Highway, west of the state capit ...

to the south The nearest government secondary schools are Laidley State High School in Laidley to the south and Lockyer District State High School in Gatton to the west.

References

{{Lockyer Valley Region Lockyer Valley Region Localities in Queensland