Leyburn QLD, 4365
Leyburn Real Estate: Suburb Profile
Searching Leyburn, QLD 4365 for a new home? It's essential to establish if the area is a serious contender for your next home. The Homes.com.au suburb profile focuses on providing the best information on Leyburn median property prices, market trends & demographics so we can allow you to make informed decisions about your future property purchase.
If you're considering a move to Leyburn, have a little read of our history lesson to learn more about the amazing lifestyle and what makes this suburb so great.
Overview Leyburn is a locality in the Southern Downs Region. It is split between the South Downs Region and the Toowoomba Region. It is close to the suburbs of Karara, Thanes Creek, Ellangowan, Stonehenge, Tummaville, and Pratten. Currently, it has a population of 476 people.
Living in Leyburn Living in Leyburn means that you live in a suburb that passes from the north to the east with the Toowoomba Karara Word, also known as the State Route 48. In the east of the locality is the Leyburn State Forest.
History of Leyburn The history of Leyburn began in the 1840s when the person who discovered it, William Gray Sr, came to the area by bullock dray from Pitt Town on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales. The first name for the locality used to be Canal Creek, after the name of a market town in the county of Yorkshire.
The site of the town was only surveyed 12 years later, in November 1852, when Henry Kirby and another man named Collines applied for the licence. The post office at Leyburn opened on January 1, 1861, and continues to be a great office up to this day. The police force was established only in 1861, and the town only had 65 inhabitants.
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