Wishart

Wishart is a suburb in the City of Brisbane. It's home to 10,700 people as of the 2016 census.

Name
Wishart is named after an early European settler with the surname of Wishart. It's unknown who this settler specifically was. It was first used as a name for the suburb in 1967.

Establishment as a suburb
Wishart was established as a suburb on August 1, 1967 by the Queensland Place Names Board. The boundaries have since been amended once in 2005.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Wishart recorded a population of 10,700 people, 52.9% female and 47.1% male. The median age of the Wishart population was 39 years, 1 year above the national median. 61.4% of people living in Wishart were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were China (4.1%), India (3.4%), New Zealand (2.9%), South Korea (2.5%) and England (2.4%).

Wishart is a predominantly family suburb with 80.4% of households being family households. Of these family households, 65.9% have children. The other households are single-person households (16.7%) and group households (2.9%).

Schools
Public schools
 * Wishart State School

Private schools
 * St Catherine's Catholic Primary School