Petrie

Not to be confused with Petrie Terrace.

Petrie is a suburb in the Moreton Bay Region. It's home to 8,674 people as of the 2016 census.

Name
Petrie is named after Petrie railway station which was in turn named after Thomas Petrie on July 7, 1911. Thomas Petrie was an explorer and grazier who resided in the area.

Establishment as a suburb
Petrie was established as a suburb on November 17, 1979 by the Queensland Minister for Survey and Valuation. The boundaries have since been adjusted on February 17, 2006 and the suburb was regazetted on June 19, 2009 due to council amalgamations at the time.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Petrie recorded a population of 8,674 people, 50.8% female and 49.2% male. The median age of the Petrie population was 36 years, 2 years below the national median. 76.8% of people living in Petrie were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England (5.5%), New Zealand (4.2%), South Africa (1.3%), Scotland (0.7%) and India (0.6%).

Petrie is a predominantly family suburb with 80.3% of households being family households. Of these family households, 63.1% have children. The other households are single-person households (16.9%) and group households (2.9%).

Real estate
When the 2016 census was held, the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,733 and median weekly rent was $335.

At the time, Petrie was home to 3,349 private dwellings. 93.4% of the dwellings were occupied. Of these occupied dwellings, 89.4% were separate houses, 4.2% were apartments and 6.4% were semi-detached houses (such as townhouses). The average number of a dwelling's bedrooms was 3.4 and the average number of people in a Petrie household was 2.7.