Greater Springfield, Queensland

Greater Springfield
Queensland
Greater Springfield is located in Queensland
Greater Springfield
Greater Springfield
Coordinates27°41′08″S 152°54′15″E / 27.6855°S 152.9041°E / -27.6855; 152.9041
Population47,000 (2021)[1]
Postcode(s)4300
Location
LGA(s)City of Ipswich
State electorate(s)
Federal division(s)

Greater Springfield is a private development undertaken by the Springfield City Group and one of the fastest-growing developments in Australia; it is located in Ipswich, in the south-west of the Brisbane metropolitan area in Queensland, Australia. It is the first privately built city in Australia and the country’s largest master planned community (tenth largest globally), encompassing 2,860 hectares (7067 acres).

In 2021, the population of Greater Springfield was estimated around 47,000, with a projection to grow to 105,000 residents by 2030.[1] Community development is managed and coordinated by Springfield City Group. The plan is to have a group of suburbs with the population of Darwin by 2030.

In 2019, Springfield City Group was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame in recognition of their visionary entrepreneurship in establishing Springfield, as a nation-building project and Australia's first privately-constructed city.[2]

  1. ^ a b Key Facts About Springfield. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  2. ^ "2019 Hall of Fame". Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame. State Library of Queensland. 2019. Archived from the original on 19 July 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.