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Wacol

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

Wacol
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The place

Wacol is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Wacol had a population of 4,253 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wacol

3 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
    St Francis Xavier Church, Goodna

    St Francis Xavier Church is a heritage-listed Roman Catholic church at 6 Church Street, Goodna, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Andrea Giovanni Stombuco and built in 1881 by William Hanley.

    3.7 km · Roman Catholic church in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wolston House

    Wolston House is a heritage-listed museum and former homestead at 223 Grindle Road, Wacol, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1852 to 1860s.

    1.9 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Luxury Paints Stadium

    Lions Stadium is a soccer stadium located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It has lights for night matches and can seat up to 5000 people.

    3.1 km · soccer stadium in Brisbane, 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.

Go there

Getting to Wacol

Airports
Brisbane (BNE), 29 km · Gold Coast (OOL), 87 km · Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 111 km
Stations
Darra railway station, 3.7 km · Gailes railway station, 2.1 km · Goodna railway station, 3.4 km · Richlands railway station, 3 km · Wacol railway station, 800 m
  • Gold Coast → Wacol
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · A$10–14
  • Toowoomba → Wacol
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · A$13–18
  • Maroochydore → Wacol
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · A$14–19
  • 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 Wacol

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 Wacol. 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

    265 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,736 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,820 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,322 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,968 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wacol

Wacol is 17 km from Brisbane, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Goodnasuburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia3.7 km
  • Richlandssuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia3.5 km
  • Riverhillssuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2.8 km
  • Carole Parksuburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia3.9 km
  • Gailessuburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia3.1 km
  • Middle Parksuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia3.7 km