St Lucia is a riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the St Lucia had a population of 12,574 people. The University of Queensland is the main attraction of St Lucia, with the university, and residential colleges covering a large proportion of the suburb. St Lucia is home to a diverse range of people and families. Typically, the student population of St Lucia is high, especially in dwellings in the immediate vicinity of the university, but the suburb is also home to wealthy professionals and families. Geography St Lucia is located by road southwest of the Brisbane GPO. The suburb sits on a peninsula, bounded on the north, east and south by the median in a bend of the Brisbane River. The eastern third of the suburb is occupied by the main campus of the University of Queensland. The flatter area on the northern side is primarily medium to high density residential including some high-rise apartments on the river-front. The more hilly area in the centre and south is mainly low-density, family-occupied residential. The south-west is occupied by the St Lucia Golf Course. Ironside is a neighbourhood within the suburb (). The Elbow is the name for the easternmost part of the suburb (), where the Brisbane River makes a sharp bend. There are two reaches of the Brisbane River surrounding the suburb: St Lucia Reach (), to the north of the suburb Cemetery Reach (), to the east of the suburb, with the name referring to the South Brisbane Cemetery on the opposite side of the river in the suburb of Dutton Park Six Mile Rocks are rocks in Brisbane River to the south of the suburb (). Three creeks flow through the suburb: Toowong Creek (), which enters the river in the north-west of the suburb Carmody Creek (), through the University of Queensland campus entering the river in the east of the suburb Sandy Creek (), flows easterly from Robertson Park, through the St Lucia Golf Course to enter the river in the south-west of the suburb History The area was originally part of Indooroopilly and later part of Toowong. Originally known as Indooroopilly Pocket, for a short time it was called Toowong South and part of the area was hived off as Lang Farm. Sugar plantations were established in the area in the 1860s. William Alexander Wilson, born in St Lucia in the