Stafford

Stafford is a suburb in the City of Brisbane. It's home to 6,561 people as of the 2016 census.

Name
The area was originally named Happy Valley until a public movement in 1885–86 led to the area being renamed Stafford after the English county Staffordshire. It's theorised on Stafford's place name page on the Queensland Government website that it may be named after Staffordshire because both areas were known for clay quarries at the time.

Establishment as a suburb
Stafford was established as a suburb on August 11, 1975 by the Queensland Place Names Board. The suburb's boundaries have since been amended twice in 2006 and 2013.