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Suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Algester

Algester is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Algester
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The place

Algester is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Algester had a population of 9,020 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Algester

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Stretton State College

    Stretton State College is an independent public, co-educational, P-12 school located in the Brisbane suburb of Stretton, Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Queensland Department of Education, with an enrolment of 3,491 students and a teaching staff of 256 as of 2024.

    3.7 km · public, college in Stretton, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Algester

Airports
Brisbane (BNE), 27 km · Gold Coast (OOL), 77 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 113 km
  • Gold Coast → Algester
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · A$8–11
  • Maroochydore → Algester
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · A$15–21
  • Toowoomba → Algester
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · A$15–19
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Algester

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Algester. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTranslink is responsible for all trains, buses, ferries and trams in South East Queensland and regional urban buses.
  • Get aroundBuses and ferries have validators to touch as you board and alight.

From Wikivoyage: Greater Brisbane, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    267 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,743 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,819 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,313 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,979 km

If you know how people move in Algester – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Algester

Algester is 8 km from Logan City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sunnybank Hillssuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2 km
  • Acacia Ridgesuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia3.2 km
  • Calamvalesuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2.1 km
  • Strettonstate electoral district of Queensland, Australia3.3 km
  • Pallarasuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia1.7 km
  • Willawongsuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia3.6 km