Logan is a city of its own, not a Brisbane suburb, and it sits between Brisbane, Ipswich and the Gold Coast. It was declared a city on 1 January 1981 and grew to more than three times its old area in 2008, absorbing the Beenleigh–Eagleby district and part of the former Beaudesert Shire. The Logan Office of Economic Development (LOED), part of council, puts the city at 957 square kilometres and 70 suburbs, with 403,515 residents in June 2025, the second-fastest growth rate of any Queensland council that year at 3.1%, and more than 500,000 people expected by 2036. Springwood is about 22 km south-east of the Brisbane CBD and Jimboomba close to 49 km by road, so many Logan firms work on both sides of the boundary. If you do, our pages on Brisbane's southside and web design in Brisbane cover the suburbs over the line.
Construction is the largest part of the local economy. LOED's figures for the year to June 2025 put Logan's gross regional product at $20.62 billion, up 4.9%, with 137,224 local jobs. Construction added $2.22 billion in value and health care and social assistance $2.17 billion, followed by manufacturing at $1.35 billion and wholesale and retail trade at $1.34 billion each. Among the growth industries LOED lists, transport, postal and warehousing rose by $92 million to $1.02 billion. The ABS business counts tell the same story: 7,166 construction businesses and 4,933 in transport in June 2025, well ahead of any other group. Many of these firms sell to builders, developers and other businesses, so their sites need to show licences, equipment and the areas they cover, with a quote form that asks for plans or job details up front. Our pages for transport and logistics and manufacturers go into those buyers.
Shoppers and commuters gather in a handful of centres. Logan Central, Browns Plains and Shailer Park, home of the Logan Hyperdome, are the main commercial hubs. Springwood, beside the Pacific Motorway, is a centre for car sales, and in 2009 council commissioned a master plan to turn it into a principal activity centre, with offices, apartments and shops near the busway station. Beenleigh, about 33 km south-east of central Brisbane, began as a sugar town: its first cane mill went up in 1867, the heritage-listed Beenleigh Rum Distillery dates from 1864, and the abattoir set up there in 1952 for beef production is still one of the town's largest industries. Trains on the Beenleigh line stop at stations including Woodridge, Kingston and Loganlea, and Gold Coast services stop at Loganlea and Beenleigh. A café, salon or shop near any of these places should put its hours, parking and nearest station where a phone shows them first.
Health is the other big employer. Health care and social assistance employed 20,695 Logan residents at the 2021 Census, 13.6% of employed residents and more than any other industry. Logan Hospital at Meadowbrook opened in 1990, and LOED describes its expansion, which will lift existing bed capacity by 48 per cent, as one of the state's largest-ever hospital expansions. Griffith University's Logan campus is also in Meadowbrook. LOED lists a $30 million, seven-storey health hub at Springwood on the M1, where Brisbane South Private Hospital is to take two floors, and Yarrabilba Health City, which opened in 2023. Practices around these sites need practitioner profiles, a plain list of what they treat and a booking link or built-in booking; our pages for Logan allied health and Logan NDIS providers go further.
Logan's customers are young and come from all over the world. Council says the city is home to people from more than 234 cultures and that about half of its residents are 34 or younger, with housing that runs from leafy suburbs to bushland acreage. LOED expects the Yarrabilba and Greater Flagstone priority development areas in the south to house 170,000 people within 20 to 30 years, slightly less than half the city's total growth. New arrivals look for a plumber, a dentist or a mechanic by the name of their suburb or estate, so we name the places you actually serve in headings and sentences, and if your team speaks other languages we say so near the top. WebCraft Studio works from Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide: Logan clients deal with us by phone and email, and we don't hold meetings in person.