Mansfield

Mansfield is a suburb in the City of Brisbane. It's home to 8,695 people as of the 2016 census.

Name
Mansfield is named after Sir Alan James Mansfield, Governor of Queensland from 1966 to 1976.

Establishment as a suburb
Mansfield was established as a suburb on August 1, 1967 by the Queensland Place Names Board. The boundaries have since been amended three times in 2000, 2009 and 2011.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Mansfield recorded a population of 8,695 people, 51.8% female and 48.2% male. The median age of the Mansfield population was 38 years, same as the national median. 64.3% of people living in Mansfield were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand (3.4%), China (2.8%), India (2.8%), England (2.6%) and Sri Lanka (1.6%).

Mansfield is a predominantly family suburb with 80.5% of households being family households. Of these family households, 67.6% have children. The other households are single-person households (16.4%) and group households (3.1%).