Calamvale is a suburb on the south side of the city of Brisbane, Australia with a population of approximately 11,000. A relatively large suburb, it adjoins Stretton, Parkinson, Sunnybank Hills, Acacia Ridge, Algester and Drewvale. It is 18 kilometres from Brisbane’s central business district.
Calamvale is close to the Karawatha nature reserve. The suburb has a medium – high average income per household. The schools in Calamvale include Calamvale Community College, which combines a primary and secondary school, Stretton State College, which starts from prep to Year 10 and Calamvale Special School.
The size of Calamvale is approximately 7 square km. It has nine parks covering nearly 1% of the total area. There are three childcare centres located in Calamvale, and the predominant age group in Calamvale is 20 – 29 years.
Households in Calamvale are primarily couples with children who are likely to be repaying between $1000 and $1200 per month on mortgage repayments. In general, people in Calamvale work in professional occupations.
Calamvale has shopping centres at each end of Kameruka Street, and a larger marketplace with a Woolworths supermarket on the the corner of Nottingham Road.
A new shopping centre, Calamvale Central has recently opened opposite the Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown Complex and next to the Calamvale Hotel. It contains a Big W discount department store and another Woolworths supermarket. Directly across from Calamvale Central is Sunnybank Hills Shoppingtown, which contains another Woolworths and a Pick and Pay Hypermarket.
There are no train stations in Calamvale, although Altandi and Runcorn train stations are only about a five minute drive away. Travel to the Brisbane CBD is roughly 30 minutes by car, 40-45 minutes by bus, and 30-45 minutes by train from Runcorn and Altandi railway stations.
Calamvale is serviced by nine bus routes operated by Brisbane Transport and Park Ridge Transit. It is in Zone 5 of the TransLink zoning scheme.
There is a police station and several churches including Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Joseph, Salvation Army Worship Centre and Trinity Independent Baptist Church.