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Town in Queensland, Australia

Nerang

Nerang is a town and suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Nerang
Nerang · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Nerang is a town and suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the suburb of Nerang had a population of 17,048 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nerang

4 places 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
    Carrara Stadium

    Carrara Stadium is a stadium located in the Gold Coast suburb of Carrara. It is primarily used for Australian rules football as the home ground of the Gold Coast Suns, which competes in the Australian Football League.

    3.6 km · stadium on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nerang National Park

    Nerang National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia situated on the Gold Coast. The protected area is located 12 kilometres from Surfers Paradise on Nerang’s north-west outskirts.

    3.8 km · national park in Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Aquinas College

    Aquinas College is an independent Catholic secondary school, located in the Gold Coast suburb of Southport in Queensland, Australia. Aquinas College has a current enrolment of 1,200 students from Year 7 to 12.

    4.9 km · Coeducational Catholic College, Gold Coast Queensland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    William Duncan State School

    William Duncan State School is a public co-educational primary school located in the City of Gold Coast suburb of Highland Park, Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Department of Education, with an enrolment of 570 students and a teaching staff of 45, as of 2023.

    2.7 km · government primary school in Highland Park, QLD, 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 Nerang

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 26 km · Brisbane (BNE), 71 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 157 km
Stations
Nerang railway station, 1.5 km · GCUH bus station, 5.5 km
  • Brisbane → Nerang
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · A$8–11
  • Maroochydore → Nerang
    150 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · A$21–28
  • Toowoomba → Nerang
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · A$21–28
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Nerang

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 Nerang. 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: Gold Coast, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    310 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,744 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,787 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,262 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,027 km

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

Around it

Next door to Nerang

Nerang is 9 km from Gold Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Carrarasuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia4.7 km
  • Gavenlocality in Queensland, Australia4 km
  • Worongarysuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia5.7 km
  • Molendinarsuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia3.1 km
  • Pacific Pinessuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia4.9 km
  • Parkwoodsuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia4.6 km