Wights Mountain, Queensland


Wights Mountain is a rural locality in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Wights Mountain had a population of 793 people.

Geography

Wights Mountains is from Brisbane.

History

The locality was named after selector George Wight who settled in the area in the late 1860s.
Samford Valley Steiner School opened on 18 February 1987.
In the Wights Mountain had a population of 725 people.

Education

Samford Valley Steiner School is a private primary and secondary school for boys and girls at Narrawa Drive. In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 339 students with 29 teachers and 29 non-teaching staff.

Demographics

In the, Wights Mountain recorded a population of 725 people, 50.3% female and 49.7% male. The median age of the Wights Mountain population was 41 years, 4 years above the national median of 37. 75.2% of people living in Wights Mountain were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 8.6%, New Zealand 2.5%, Canada 1.2%, United States of America 1.1%, Switzerland 1.1%. 93.5% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.8% German, 0.6% Hindi, 0.4% French, 0.4% Cantonese, 0.4% Italian.