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Upper Coomera is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021

Census, Upper Coomera had a population of 27,180 people.

Upper Coomera is located on the northern side of the Gold Coast on the western side of

the M1 Pacific Motorway. It borders Willow Vale in the north, the Coomera River on the

south, which separates it from Oxenford and the Pacific Highway on the east, which

separates it from Coomera. Tamborine-Oxenford Road (State Route 95_ runs through from

south-west to south-east.

Upper Coomera and Coomera have long been the main centre of urban development on

the Gold Coast and are considered to be, along with Southport and Robina, one of the Gold

Coast’s three urban centres. Upper Coomera is a heavily suburbanised suburb consisting

of many large residential developments and commercial centres. Despite already being

heavily developed and having a large population, Upper Coomera is predicted by both the

Queensland Government and Gold Coast City Council to grow and develop at an

exponential rate well into the next decade. Upper Coomera is a popular place of residence

for dual-city commuters as it is located roughly halfway between the central commercial

districts of Southport and Beenleigh and within reasonable travelling distance to Brisbane

CBD.

History:

The name Coomera comes from the Yugambeh word kumera, a species of wale. In 1864,

the British surveyed the land along the Coomera River, with 15,000 acres reserved for

agricultural purposes. In 1865, William Alfred Binstead became the first white man to take

up land in the Upper Coomera area near a ford in the river that later formed part of a mail run. A ferry service was set up downstream, which later became known as Coomera.

The sugar industry was soon established in the region with the Otmoor plantation of

Arthur Ardagh produced the first refined sugar in 1870. South Sea Islander labour was

utilised at Otmoor from its formation, and by 1881 was the only type of labour used on the

property.