Morayfield

Morayfield is a metropolis and suburb of Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. It is 44 kilometres north of Brisbane, the country capital. In the 2016 census, Morayfield had a population of 21,394 human beings. Morayfield is a more often than not residential vicinity, consisting particularly of low-set brick houses and a few semi-rural acreage. The fundamental business region is focused alongside Morayfield Road and consists of the Morayfield Shopping Centre, which opened in 1997.

The suburb is located inside the Burpengary Creek catchment location. The Bruce Highway passes from south to north through the suburb. In 1868 Brisbane guy George Raff sold a number of the land held through the failed Caboolture Cotton Company, calling it "Moray Field", derived from Raff's local Morayshire in Scotland. It become often written as "Morayfields" and, from 1881, became "Morayfield".

Until the mid-1980s, Morayfield remained a rural place which include a small dairy protecting and small crop farming organizations. However, with the populace stress due to the rapid growth of the extra Brisbane place, it has when you consider that suffered to a few degree from random or unplanned residential development and speedy population boom. It is a thriving retail and carrier enterprise business middle. In January 2011 components of Morayfield had been flooded at some point of the 2010-2011 Queensland floods.