One Mile, Queensland

For the suburb of the same name in New South Wales, see One Mile, New South Wales.

One Mile
Suburb
Philip Street, 2016 Philip Street, 2016
Coordinates:
Country	Australia
State	Queensland
City	Ipswich
LGA	City of Ipswich
Location	3.4 km (2.1 mi) SW of Ipswich 47.0 km (29.2 mi) SW of Brisbane CBD
Government
• State electorate	Ipswich West
• Federal division	Blair
Area
• Total	1.9 km2 (0.73 sq mi)
Population
• Total	2,038 (2021 census)
• Density	1,073/km2 (2,780/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+10:00 (AEST)
Postcode	4305
Suburbs around One Mile Leichhardt Leichhardt West Ipswich Amberley One Mile Churchill Yamanto Yamanto Churchill

One Mile is a suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, One Mile had a population of 2,038 people.

History

The origin of the suburb name is from its approximate distance from the Ipswich CBD. It was one mile from the centre of Ipswich to the crossing of the Bremer River on the road to Toowoomba (now the Old Toowoomba Road). The bridge at this crossing was known as the One Mile Bridge until it was renamed the Don Livingstone One Mile Bridge in 2015 after Don Livingstone, a former Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for the local area.

Leichhardt Methodist Church was officially opened on Saturday 5 September 1953 by Reverend John Egerton Jacob. The church building was not new but the relocated Methodist Church from Birkwood (now within Coleyville / Warrill View) which opened 77 years earlier in 1876 but the congregation had subsequently declined. With the amalgamation of the Methodist Church into the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became Leichhardt Uniting Church. It was demolished in 2018. It was at 13 Chubb Street (), now within the suburb boundaries of One Mile.

Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church opened in 1958 at 22 Old Toowoomba Road. Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School opened on 23 January 1967 adjacent to the church. It was the first Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Brisbane to be opened without full-time religious staff as none of the teaching orders of Catholic nuns was able to provide staff. It was opened with two lay women teachers, Mrs Frances Elmore and Mrs Ellen Payne, with nursing sisters from the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at Villa Maria Nursing Home in Ipswich attending part-time to provide religious instruction. In 1982 the new brick Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic church was built and the old church was re-purposed for school classrooms.

Demographics

In the 2016 census, One Mile had a population of 2,077 people. At that time, One Mile had an unemployment rate of 12.2%, nearly double that of the Australian unemployment rate of 6.9%.

In the 2021 census, One Mile had a population of 2,038 people.

Education

Immaculate Heart Catholic Primary School is a Catholic primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at 22 Old Toowoomba Road (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 186 students with 16 teachers (14 full-time equivalent) and 10 non-teaching staff (6 full-time equivalent).

Amenities

Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church is at 22 Old Toowoomba Road ().