Dutton Park

Dutton Park is a residential suburb in the City of Brisbane. It's home to 2,024 people as of the 2016 census.

Name
Dutton Park's name is derived from a park in the area which was named in 1884 after Charles Boydell Dutton, pastoralist, politician and Secretary for Public Lands at the time. An estate within the suburb named Dutton Park opened in 1910 and that's when the area began to be known as such.

Establishment as a suburb
Dutton Park 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 2002 and 2008.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Dutton Park recorded a population of 2,024 people, 48.2% female and 51.8% male. The median age of the Dutton Park population was 32 years, 6 years below the national median. 58.4% of people living in Dutton Park were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England (2.7%), Greece (2.2%), New Zealand (2.1%), China (2.1%) and Vietnam (1.8%).

Dutton Park is a predominantly family suburb with 55.9% of households being family households. Of these family households, 57.8% have children. The other households are single-person households (30.3%) and group households (13.8%).