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Suburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Parkwood

Parkwood is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Parkwood
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The place

Parkwood is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Parkwood had a population of 8,837 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Parkwood

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 27 km · Brisbane (BNE), 68 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 154 km
  • Brisbane → Parkwood
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · A$8–11
  • Maroochydore → Parkwood
    147 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · A$21–28
  • Toowoomba → Parkwood
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · A$21–27
  • 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 Parkwood

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 Parkwood. 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

    306 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,748 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,791 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,264 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,027 km

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

Around it

Next door to Parkwood

Parkwood is 8 km from Gold Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.