Regional guide · Brisbane
Where the businesses actually are in Brisbane
The precincts that hold the business base, and the industries that carry them.
Every figure on this page is sourced and dated. Where a figure is not published for this region, the page says so. Last updated 15 September 2026.
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Where the businesses actually are
The regional economic cluster mapped in ShapingSEQ, taking in Lytton, Hemmant, Murarrie, Colmslie, Eagle Farm, Pinkenba, Bulwer Island, Northgate, Virginia, Geebung, Nudgee, Banyo, Wynnum Central and Toombul. It is the freight and industrial heart of the north east.
In the year to 30 June 2025 the port moved 34.9 million tonnes of trade, up 7.8 per cent on the prior year, and a record 1.62 million TEU, on international cargo valued at $73.5 billion. It also took 154 cruise ship calls.
The Brisbane Airport 2026 Master Plan was approved by the federal Minister for Infrastructure in June 2026. It forecasts over 50 million passengers a year by 2046 and a third terminal operational by the early 2030s. Brisbane Airport Corporation also runs a leasehold Airport Industrial Park.
Council’s name for the industrial belt at Rocklea, Archerfield, Acacia Ridge, Coopers Plains, Salisbury, Moorooka, Darra, Wacol, Richlands and Ellen Grove, strung between the Ipswich, Logan and Centenary motorways.
The Brisbane Produce Market on Sherwood Road, the state’s central fruit and vegetable wholesaling site, and the anchor for a large part of the fresh produce trade in the industrial south.
Over 80 businesses on site and roughly 200 based aircraft, with more than 50 hectares available for aviation and non aviation development. Named estates include Transition, Archerfield Logistics Estate and the Beaufighter Ave, Archerfield Industrial Estate.
Brisbane’s interstate standard gauge rail freight terminal and the northern end of Inland Rail. Infrastructure Australia names it alongside Bromelton and the Brisbane Multimodal Terminal at the port.
Geebung, Virginia, Northgate, Nudgee and Banyo, the council’s second named major industry area, sitting between the Gateway Motorway and the northern rail line.
A council named productive area on the southern side of the city, and the southern terminus of the Brisbane Metro M1 route to Roma Street.
Named by council in its own right, on the lower Brisbane River. This is boat yard and marine services country, which is where the devolved boat maintenance environmental authority bites.
The Queen Street Mall, the Brunswick Street Mall and the Chinatown Mall are council controlled, with their own activity permissions and their own annual consent rates per square metre of trading area.
James Street in Fortitude Valley and New Farm, Boundary Street in West End, Given Terrace and Latrobe Terrace in Paddington, Racecourse Road in Ascot, Oxford Street in Bulimba, Park Road in Milton, Sandgate Road in Nundah and Logan Road in Mount Gravatt.
The City Centre, Fortitude Valley, Spring Hill, Kurilpa, Chermside and Upper Mount Gravatt, with major centres at Nundah, Toombul, Mitchelton, Toowong, Indooroopilly, Wynnum and Carindale, and 88 district centres.
Two of the four new Cross River Rail underground stations, both sitting inside declared priority development areas administered by Economic Development Queensland rather than by council.
The industries Brisbane is built on
Business counts are ABS Counts of Australian Businesses at 30 June 2024, indexed against the Queensland share. Where a figure is not published for this area, it says so.
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