Stafford Heights, Queensland

Stafford Heights is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Geography.
Stafford Heights is north of the Brisbane central business district.
History.
Stafford Heights is named because it is on higher ground than its neighbouring Stafford. The "Heights" name was used locally as a neighbourhood name from the 1950s but it became a gazetted suburb in 1975. "Stafford" was a name adopted by local consent in 1885–1886, after Staffordshire in England.
Stafford Heights State School opened on 3 April 1956.
Somerset Hills State School opened on 24 January 1966.
In 2002 Queen of Apostles Catholic Primary School opened its lower campus for younger students. Its original "upper" campus opened on 30 January 1962 in Stafford to the south.
Education.
Queen of Apostles Catholic Primary School is a Catholic primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls. The school has two campuses. The lower campus (Prep-2) is at 46 Chuter Street in Stafford Heights (), while the upper campus (3-6) is at 10 Thuruna Street in neighbouring Stafford to the south. In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 486 students with 40 teachers (28 full-time equivalent) and 35 non-teaching staff (17 full-time equivalent).
Demographics.
In the , the population of Stafford Heights was 6,780, 51.8% female and 48.2% male.
The median age of the Stafford Heights population was 38 years, 1 year above the Australian median.
76.9% of people living in Stafford Heights were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were New Zealand 3.8%, England 2.6%, Italy 1.7%, Philippines 1%, India 0.5%.
84.7% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 2.9% Italian, 0.5% Greek, 0.4% Tagalog, 0.4% Cantonese, 0.4% Arabic.
Furthermore, since the 1970s the population of this suburb has been slowly declining as is shown by the census figures for population.