Regional guide · Redlands
Where the businesses actually are in the Redlands
The centres 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
One of the two Principal Centre zoned locations in the city, and the industrial anchor. The industrial land runs along Redland Bay Road, Old Cleveland Road East, Ney Road and Moreton Bay Road. Capalaba bus station is the eastern terminus for a large share of Redland bus routes, and the retail anchors are Capalaba Central, Capalaba Park and Capalaba Town Centre.
The administrative and retail centre, holding the council administrative centre, Redland Hospital on Weippin Street and the Cleveland railway terminus. Council has a Health Precinct Master Plan for the Wellington Street and Weippin Street area, developed with Metro South Hospital and Health Service and Mater Health Services, to identify industry clustering opportunities around the hospitals.
The ferry gateway to Minjerribah, at 12 Emmett Drive. It has been a declared Priority Development Area since 21 June 2013, covering 67 hectares, being 17.5 hectares of land and 49.5 hectares of water in Moreton Bay. The private development partner withdrew on 24 April 2026 and the future of the precinct is undetermined.
The two council managed canal estates, at Cleveland and Birkdale, maintained to 1.9 metres and 1.5 metres navigable depth. Those draft limits are a hard constraint on the size of vessel a marine business can service or berth there. Birkdale also holds the 62 hectare Birkdale Community Precinct, bought from the Commonwealth in December 2019 for $4.1 million, where the Redland Whitewater Centre is proposed.
The passenger ferry terminal for the Southern Moreton Bay Islands, on Banana Street. SeaLink runs roughly half hourly departures across an 18 hour per day service, every day of the year, using four jet boats. The terminal, car parking, boat ramp and commercial precinct sit inside the Weinam Creek Priority Development Area.
A District Centre zoned location and the southern end of the mainland. Shoreline, a Lendlease master planned community with preliminary approval granted on 18 November 2015, is planned for approximately 10,000 new residents with a wastewater treatment plant servicing 13,500 equivalent persons.
The city’s only Major Centre zoned location, serving the southern mainland. Council operates boat ramps at Colburn Avenue, Masters Avenue and Orana Esplanade here, part of the 26 ramps it names across the city, 13 on the mainland and 13 on the islands.
Alexandra Hills and Birkdale carry District Centre zoning. The Cleveland railway line runs through Thorneside, Birkdale, Wellington Point, Ormiston and Cleveland, and stops there. There is no rail to Victoria Point, Redland Bay, Mount Cotton or Capalaba.
Declared a Priority Development Area on 4 April 2025, covering 890 hectares with an expected yield of approximately 8,000 new homes for around 24,000 residents. Because it is a state declared PDA, Economic Development Queensland drives the planning rather than council alone.
A rural locality of approximately 3,000 residents, and the site of the Barro Group hard rock quarry. Key Resource Areas are protected under the State Planning Policy and require separation distances between quarries and sensitive uses, which constrains what can be approved nearby.
Rural land makes up approximately 11,647 hectares, about 54 per cent of the mainland area, of which only 2,595 hectares is zoned specifically for rural purposes. Council’s Rural Redlands strategy names poultry production at $50.8 million, alongside nurseries, cut flowers, potatoes, sweet potatoes and tomatoes.
The Queensland Government facility at 26 to 40 Delancey Street, incorporating the Queensland Crop Development Facility. It serves the nursery, cut flower, parks and gardens, landscape and turf industries, with five glasshouses holding 1,350 square metres of environmentally controlled space and 5 to 6 hectares of red soil field trial ground.
Russell, Macleay, Lamb and Karragarra Islands, plus Coochiemudlo off Victoria Point. The Department of Transport and Main Roads and council committed $34.1 million to upgrade the four SMBI ferry terminals, and the Russell Island terminal opened in June 2023. Every good sold on these islands crosses water on a vehicle ferry or barge.
Sand mining ran from 1949 and was phased out under legislation passed in May 2016, with a final deadline of 31 December 2019. More than 90 per cent of the island is subject to native title following two Federal Court consent determinations on 4 July 2011, and Naree Budjong Djara National Park covers about half the island under joint management since 2011.
The industries Redlands 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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