Where the businesses actually are in Moreton Bay

The large industrial estate on the eastern side of Narangba, bounded by the North Coast railway line and reached off Boundary Road and Potassium Street. It is the heavy end of industry for the council area. The Bruce Highway business case between Anzac Avenue and Uhlmann Road names Narangba directly and includes replacement of the Frawley Avenue and Potassium Street overpass, which is the estate’s own highway connection. Narangba held 20,910 residents at the 2021 Census. The estate area, its establishment date and its tenant list are not published in the sources checked, so none are stated here.

The industrial and commercial precinct at the southern end of the council area, between Strathpine and the South Pine River on South Pine Road. It carries light industrial, commercial, business and distribution uses serving Brisbane’s north, and it holds the Powerlink South Pine 275/110 kV substation and a waste treatment plant. Brendale held only 3,100 residents at the 2021 Census across 10.7 square kilometres, which tells you it is a workplace suburb rather than a residential one.

The regional centre of the northern half. Caboolture held 29,543 residents at the 2021 Census with a median age of 36 years. It carries Caboolture Square shopping centre, open since 4 November 1986, The Hub with the library and art gallery and fifteen event and business spaces, Caboolture Hospital on McKean Street, the Caboolture Satellite Health Centre at 15 Rowe Street, Caboolture railway station as the terminus of the electrified suburban network, and Caboolture Airfield.

Morayfield Road is the primary commercial thoroughfare of the northern half and carries the bulk of the area’s shops. Morayfield Shopping Centre opened on 14 April 1997 and was expanded in 2005, and Morayfield station sits on the Caboolture line. The population was 24,898 at the 2021 Census, up from 21,394 in 2016. In the ABS Regional population release for 2024-25, published 31 March 2026, Morayfield recorded 15 per cent growth, among the three fastest growing statistical areas level 2 in Queensland.

The corridor between Morayfield and Narangba, either side of Uhlmann Road and the Bruce Highway. Burpengary East holds the North Harbour estate on the Caboolture River, declared a priority development area on 30 July 2025 across approximately 420 hectares, with a marina component of 400 wet berths, a dry stacker for 500 boats and 511 private pontoons.

The master planned town centre and business park begun in April 1999 by Lend Lease and Lensworth, sold to Stockland in December 2004, planned for 8,500 dwellings plus a town centre, business park and community services across a 20 year build. North Lakes held 23,030 residents at the 2021 Census. It is the newest large retail and commercial centre in the council area, and part of it sits under the Mango Hill Infrastructure Development Control Plan rather than the planning scheme.

Strathpine Centre opened in 1983 and was known as Westfield Strathpine until 2015. It is the retail anchor of the southern half. The council keeps its Pine Rivers district administrative offices at Strathpine, continuing a role that dates to the Pine Rivers Shire Council in 1889. Gympie Road is the main road, Strathpine and Bray Park stations serve it, and Strathpine bus station connects to Albany Creek, Redcliffe and Chermside. Population was 10,647 at the 2021 Census.

The Amcor paper mill, formerly Australian Paper Manufacturers, occupied a 250 hectare site opened on 6 December 1957 by Prime Minister Robert Menzies and closed in 2013. Council acquired the site, partnered with the University of the Sunshine Coast in 2015, and the UniSC Moreton Bay campus opened in 2020. Petrie held 8,722 residents at the 2021 Census. The surrounding land is the Moreton Bay Central priority development area, and the Moreton Bay Indoor Sports Centre for the 2032 Games is to be built at Petrie.

The Anzac Avenue and Gympie Road corridor between Petrie and North Lakes, all on rail. Kallangur holds a Metro North satellite health centre at 9 Stoker Way, next to the railway station, running a minor injury and illness clinic from 8:00am to 10:00pm seven days a week. The southern part of the Moreton Bay Central priority development area runs to land south of the new Kallangur station.

Redcliffe is the central business district of a peninsula that also carries Margate, Woody Point, Clontarf, Scarborough, Newport, Kippa-Ring and Rothwell. Redcliffe held 10,460 residents at the 2021 Census across 4.2 square kilometres. The trading strip is Redcliffe Parade, alongside Redcliffe Jetty, Suttons Beach, Settlement Cove Lagoon, the Redcliffe Museum and Bee Gees Way, unveiled by Barry Gibb on 14 February 2013. The Redcliffe Markets run on Sundays along the Parade, and Redcliffe Hospital is on Anzac Avenue.

Heavy rail reached the peninsula on 3 October 2016, when the line from Petrie to Kippa-Ring opened with six new stations, roughly 130 years after a railway to Redcliffe was first proposed. It was announced at the 2010 federal election at an estimated $1.15 billion, with the design and construction contract awarded to Thiess at $650 million and a funding agreement signed on 3 December 2010. The peninsula was a road only destination until October 2016, which matters when you compare trading history across that date.

Connected to the mainland at Sandstone Point by a bridge opened by Premier Frank Nicklin on 19 October 1963, at the time the longest pre-stressed pre-cast concrete bridge in Australia at 2,736 feet. The urbanised southern end holds Bongaree, Woorim, Bellara and Banksia Beach, with shopping centres at Bellara and Banksia Beach, two hotels, clubs and golf courses. Bribie Island National Park covers 55.8 square kilometres, about one third of the island. Caboolture-Bribie Island Road is the only road access, and the Yarun satellite health centre is at 103 First Avenue, Bongaree.

Woodfordia is a 500 acre rural property about 7 kilometres north of Woodford and 72 kilometres north of Brisbane. It hosts the Woodford Folk Festival across six days and nights from 27 December to 1 January each year, drawing approximately 125,000 patrons in a standard year, more than 135,000 at the 2016-17 event, with roughly 2,000 performers and approximately 438 events across more than 25 venues. For a business at Woodford, Wamuran or D’Aguilar that is a December and January spike no other part of the council area has.

The horticultural belt north and west of Caboolture. The 2020-21 Agricultural Census recorded $299.7 million of gross agricultural production value for the council area, of which $212.9 million was crops, produced off 468 hectares of orchard fruit and nut trees and 82.3 hectares of vegetables across 31,045.5 hectares of holdings. That is one of the highest value per hectare horticultural footprints in the south east, from an agriculture business count of only 884.