West Indies, purchased the Coldridge Plantation in 1882 and renamed it St Lucia Sugar Plantation. It was subdivided in 1883 for housing and the name was transferred to the subdivision. Toowong Mixed State School opened on 10 October 1870. It was renamed Indooroopilly State School in 1879 and then Indooroopilly Pocket State School in 1888. It was renamed Ironside State School in October 1904 after the neighbouring estate of John Dunmore Lang. In the , St Lucia had a population of 11,19 5people. In the , St Lucia had a population of 12,574 people, 52.0% were female and 48.0% were male.. The median age of the St Lucia population was 23 years, 15 years below the Australian median. Children aged under 15 years made up 8.6% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 8.3% of the population. The most notable difference was in the group aged between 15 and 24 years; in St Lucia this group comprises 47.2% of the population, compared to 12.8% nationally. 46.2% of people living in St Lucia were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 66.7%; the next most common countries of birth were China (9.9%), Malaysia (5.9%), Singapore (3.6%), England (2.6%), and Indonesia (2.5%). 55.1% of people spoke only English at home; the next most popular languages were Mandarin Chinese (14.0%), Malay (3.4%), Indonesian and Cantonese (2.4% each), and Vietnamese (2.1%). The most common response for religion in St Lucia was No Religion (39.7%), followed by Catholicism (14.8)%, "Not stated" (10.4%), Anglicanism (8.6%), and Islam (7.1%). In St Lucia, just over half of all households (50.1%) were family households, 21.7% were single person households and 28.3% were group households. The median weekly household income was $1,385, similar to the national median of $1,438. Heritage listings St Lucia has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: 12 Upland Road (): Great Court, University of Queensland 38 Upland Road (): Union College 99 Sir Fred Schonnel Drive (): Vida and Jayne Lahey's House 378 Swann Road (): Ironside State School 396 Swann Road (): Langer House Although never heritage-listed, one of St Lucia's most iconic homes was the so-called The Pink Palace at 272 Swann Rd until it was demolished in 2016. Education Ironside State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 2 Hawken Drive (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 1,486