Dayboro, QLD 4521

We moved here from Samford, the town itself is arguably better with some great cafes and restaurants being a short drive from the winery, clear mountain lodge and birches. Friendly community. Still reasonably close to the city and close to North Lakes.

We originally started our search for a family home in Samford and boy, are we glad it didn't work out!
Dayboro came recommended to us by a family real estate agent "it has everything you want AND it is a fraction of the price of Samford" she said, and we just rolled our eyes and said it is also another 20 mins out of town! Then a few properties came to the market which were just a little too hard to ignore. We had one look and made an offer the same day. And we are so glad we did!!!!! Dayboro's community spirit is strong. You see the same families over and over again - it's great because making friends is a breeze out here (coming from an introvert). The local community kindy, which is beyond beautiful with mud pits, flying fox, chicken coop and amazing teachers, is a great place to spread your social wings in the community. Bakery and butcher are THE BEST. Cafes and restaurants awesome! The local Iga needs a bit of love, but is good to have when you are missing only a couple ingredients or just need to pick up some milk. Otherwise dayborians get Woolworths/ Coles delivered, head to the Warner shopping complex (aldi!!) And many buy all their produce from the Lawnton country markets (also has bulk butcher, bakery, fish shop a short drive and chemist warehousing - we buy most hints from here, and do a top up buy from aldi every two weeks and SAVE so much money, for way better produce!). There is also a new shopping complex getting built in petrie. The water park, the mill, in petrie is amazing too! Dayboro has a tiny gym but most people go to the amazing genesis gym, which also has access to a large pool and a great creche. Town is still growing and offering more activities for kids/ teenagers every year. My husband used to commute to the valley, one hour trip. It's a pleasant drive to around Enoggera and then it becomes more stop and go as you get closer to the city. Local school is great. High school, not the best but definitely improving so many parents choose to drop their kids off to the bakery and onwards with the school bus to excellent private schools. Community spirit is strong and neighbours get along. The newer estates are all absolutely stunning, all on 6000ms, I don't think I could do city suburbia anymore. Kids playing outside, parents gardening. My tip, skip expensive Samford that unfortunately lost its country appeal and now feels more like a gold club and choose dayboro. Use the spare money on a caravan and have the best of both worlds - country life and epic weekend adventures at the beach with family. It's a good life. We accidentally once left our balcony doors open for a whole of two weeks 😂, like WIDE open while we were on holiday and noone broke in. So safe. Green. Family friendly. Got everything in town you can possibly ask for. So glad we moved here!

A gorgeous town, but since everyone wants their triple figure income jobs in the city and the country lifestyle, I guarantee over the next 20 years greed will get the better of developers and it'll be looking like Kallangur soon enough. Take photos of it while you still can. Getting more crowded by the day.

Dayboro is a hidden gem. About 40 minutes’ drive into the hustle and bustle of the CBD-so fully commutable, yet it SO nice to leave all the traffic, light pollution and noise of the city behind at the end of the day!

Great cafes, bakery, pizza takeaway, an IGA, country weekend market. It’s got a community swimming pool, gym. A petrol station, tennis courts, bowling club and lots of bush hiking tracks and horse riding trails in the environs.

15 minutes from Samford, yet (so far) without the hefty price tags (although as people are now beginning to realise how glorious and friendly Dayboro is, it’s getting harder to buy under $800k...)

The new USC university at Petrie is only 15 minutes away. Ferny Grove train station is 30 minutes away.

Swim in the natural waterhole. Cycle on quiet roads. Watch a movie in the village hall. Enjoy a glass of wine or a beer sat on your veranda watching the sunset disappear behind the mountain range...Ah Dayboro-My home :)

Dayboro is a fantastic place to live, I've been living here for 14yrs.

Now with the dayboro directory (dayborodirectory.com) and the dayboro events page (dayboroevents.com), you can find easy what is going on and support the local businesses.

I have lived in dayboro for 10 years and love it. It is clean and always has the most amazing smell of Kamala (a local plant) the locals are friendly and the annual dayboro day is always a ball. The bakery is great as well. The only problems with dayboro is that there is no public transportation. There is a bus line that does only 2 busses in and out. Only for school kids. Also, IGA is the only shop until Petrie so the prices are rediculous.
Overall, dayboro is a great place to live. But it does have it downfalls

I have lived in Dayboro for 5 years and cannot rate it highly enough, if you like a peaceful and quiet existence with a strong community feel.
This is the only place I have lived where locals smile and say hello. I have young twins and almost every time I go out with them someone will ask me if I need help carrying groceries etc.

I often see koalas, wallabies, King Parrots, Rosellas, Kookaburras and families of ducks (just to name a few!) in my backyard.

There is an abundance of cafes however only 3 restaurants available for dining in. I’ll admit, we do need a bit of an uplift in regards to public transport out here. There is none that I am aware of or have seen (there may be a bus?) but driving is a must out here.
The local IGA is expensive, so is only used for emergencies.
I have heard great things about our primary school and day cares also.
Our nearest more developed suburbs are only 30 mins away by car and Woolworths delivers out here.

I have seen a lot of development in recent years in Dayboro, which I love. In my opinion this will continue to increase over the next 5 years or so with the major developments going forward in Ferny grove (train station upgrade) and Petrie University.

Overall, if you are looking for a picturesque town with a strong community, you cannot go wrong with Dayboro.

Pros:- Dayboro is a wonderful place to live. The views of the mountains, the country markets, the excellent bakery, the vintage car and bike scene. There is a great little primary school, several excellent places to eat, an amazing butchery, the cutest post office, and people who wave hello. The sky is extra blue and the property prices are still reasonable. You can go to the gym, have a swim and do your shopping all within 1km.
Cons:- No high school (kids bus out of town from the primary), the pub is average. We only have one Rediteller in the IGA.

I live here but I didn't grow up here. Over the years I've come to know several original Dayborian families - some friendly, some slightly less so. My immediate neighbours are the nicest people you could wish to meet, but it is true when they say that on the whole the 'old' families keep much to themselves. I have lived here long enough to observe why outsiders are viewed with suspicion. For many of these original inhabitants and citizens of Dayboro, their own families have grown up and left the area because of the lack of job availability, on the whole. Through growth and demand, housing prices have risen sharply over the years, making it impossible for many of these families to buy into or even return to the area to set up home. Perhaps the most annoying trend, courtesy of the newly formed and less involved Moreton Bay Regional Council, is the emerging culture to 'split and divide' the double lots around town. These minute and compromised parcels of land are shooting up all over town, and more houses are being squeezed onto these postage-stamp sized properties, leaving little or no wriggle room for kids or pets to play outside and enjoy a healthy outdoor lifestyle. With this new mindset comes lack of privacy and the space that's usually symbolic with making the move to the country and away from the suburbs in the first place! Sadly, with this culture comes another trend - investment properties! Don't get me wrong. Development has its place, provided it is done right and doesn't compromise the feel of the town or the values of the towns folk. The new developments do compromise the country feel of this town.

Unfortunately, what we're seeing in Dayboro is the growing trend to fill these rental properties with a steady flow of transient renters who are neither interested in laying down roots, nor have any desire to fit into the community. Landlords generally do not vet their renters; this is left to the real estate agents who have a vested interest is in filling these empty houses, regardless of turnover numbers or the impact it's having on a previously close community. Fortunately we do not experience the "weekender commute" of second-home owners - a problem that often plagues so many other communities these days, giving these townships the appeal of a "ghost town".

I will add that the increased volume of new builds around Dayboro is putting a huge strain on the water supply in this township. Dayboro draws water locally from a bore. Sounds good? To a certain degree, yes it is. However, during periods of high rainfall or flooding, the bore has to be shut down due to contamination. In these circumstances water has to be trucked in! When people move into the area they automatically assume that because they're on town water, there is a never-ending supply of water being pumped into the town from the nearest dam. Wrong! Leave that logic back in the suburbs. During adverse times our water travels a long way and is therefore a precious commodity - a fact often not recognized nor appreciated by newcomers. With the new split-and-divide blocks blighting our landscape, thus creating "Little Brisbane" outside of Brisbane, we could end up facing higher water rates from more frequent droughts - if global warming has anything to do with it. It's therefore incredibly naive and short-sighted of this Council to push for further development in this area. There is another downside with the water in Dayboro. Due to the risks involved with bore water, higher than usual doses of chlorine are pumped into the holding tanks on a regular basis. This has led to an increase in health problems in the area, particularly with those who suffer from asthma and skin issues. The water company that services this area does not respond favourably to complaints! At great out-of-pocket cost to ourselves, my husband purchased a water filtration system which is plumbed into our own water supply. This is primarily because we both suffer with skin problems and myself with asthma. Now that the chlorine has for the most part been removed from our water supply, we regard our household water as if it's tank water - bearing in mind that tank water creates scum build-up on porcelain household items such as toilet bowls, baths, basins, sinks, making them harder to keep clean - an issue which chlorine usually addresses. The benefits outweigh this minor hiccup, and we are experiencing cleaner drinking water and taking showers that don't overwhelm us with sulphur fumes from the chlorine! A worthy investment.

And here's a thought, when many of us make the move to the country it is with the intention of escaping the rat race of the suburbs and the cramped, unnatural conditions of living on top of our neighbours. We make the tree change looking for the new sense of 'belonging' that comes from living and intermingling with a much smaller community, and giving our kids the right to roam freely and enjoy a healthy outdoors life, safe from 'predators' and peer influence. It does beg the question of why we swap one way of living for an 'identikit' lifestyle by opting to buy into these smaller, divided plots of land? Do we like living on top of one another? Do we need to move to the country to replicate the lifestyle we enjoyed in the suburbs? Are we genuinely looking to change our lifestyles and integrate ourselves fully into an old and established community? These are questions I would urge anyone thinking of making the change to ask themselves. I'd also ask them to bear in mind that they will be swapping a short commute for a much longer one, which in turn is exhausting over a period of time and leaves one with little or no inclination and time to mingle with the community. If you really want to make the move to Dayboro, you have to change your mindset, embrace the culture and adapt to the slower pace of living in a small community. Make time to make friends.

if you want fresh air, Dayboro isn't the place for you. It is full of dust, smoke and Diesel fumes. My father was diagnoised with a lung problems, non smoker but was caused from environmental problems. Lived only in Dayboro.
The people if you are part of the "clan" are friendly but if your not part of the "clan" they are rude and nasty.
The school is the only thing that saves the area, really nice teachers and a good place for your kids to learn.
There is no public transport but a non exsisting bus service that comes in twice a day. From a bus stop you can't find.
Eating out at night, unless you like the fish and chip shop or the rude customer service from the local cafe is non existing.
Pub is over priced, Shopping option is only IGA and the food is always outdated. Internet access has problems on windy days.
It is not at all clean and green. The locals seem to cut down all the trees in replace of sparse lawns, and cattle.
I have lived in country areas before and Dayboro certainly does not have that "country" spirit.
I would not suggest anyone to live there even my worst enemy.
There are much nicer areas in Brisbane outer suburbs, don't waste your time on this little town of yesteryear.
High rentals also on poor quality houses.
Crime has gotten quite bad in some parts of the area. And drug use with "bored" teenagers is becoming a problem also.
There is no jobs for teenagers who have left school, and if you don't have use of a car, you are basically stranded in this town.
There is nothing for teenagers to do.
Town is more suited for retired people. Those who love the sitting around and being bored.
Medical center has improved somewhat over the years.
If you live an alternative lifestyle you are not welcomed at all.
Redneck, Rude and Racist is how i sum up this town