Living in North Shore
North Shore has been designed with your convenience in mind. Everything you need is just a short stroll from your front door with schools, shopping, dining, parks, bushland trails and transport networks all located within this well-established community. Together with an abundance of nearby employment opportunities, North Shore is the perfect place to live, work, learn and play.
Community Highlights
North Shore is an established and well-connected Townsville community offering a
vibrant lifestyle surrounded by natural beauty, where family-friendly living is our foundation.
Convenience
All the essentials for a happy and healthy lifestyle are moments from home at North Shore. Enjoy interactive recreational areas, neighbouring bushland and conservation zones, education options, and numerous medical facilities. Add to this an existing bustling town centre offering a wealth of shopping, dining and essential services with more to come. Learn more about our future plans for North Shore here.
Community
Engage with your neighbours at the North Shore Community Centre’s Youth Activation Hub with a skate bowl and parkour course. Kick health goals with friends thanks to the community’s extensive trails, sports grounds, fitness programs and regular Farmers Market. Experience regular free events including outdoor movie nights and seasonal activities like Easter Egg hunts and Halloween street parties. To learn about upcoming events, register your details here.
Connection
Just a 13km drive from Townsville’s CBD and with easy access to pristine northern beaches, North Shore occupies a prime location. Iconic tourist hotspot The Strand is just 13km away while James Cook University, the Lavarack Barracks and the Townsville Hospital are all close by. With a local bus network, easy access to the Bruce Highway and Townsville Airport only 10km away, travelling further afield is a breeze.
Liveability
Liveability is measured by the balance of lifestyle features available to residents, with proximity to services, neighbourhood feel and overall convenience rating high on the scale of sought-after lifestyle attributes. Life at North Shore is the perfect balance of these qualities with land or house and land packages to suit many different life stages and surrounded by all the services you need.
Our North Shore Community
Discover why North Shore at is the perfect place to call home.
Recreation
North Shore provides all the ingredients for a healthy lifestyle. At the Northern Beaches Leisure Centre, take a dip in one of four swimming pools and explore learn-to-swim classes and aqua aerobics. On Saturday mornings, join runners of all abilities for parkrun – a free 5km event along North Shore’s bushland trails. Enjoy free family fun at 17 playgrounds among 130 hectares of lush parklands. There are also regular yoga sessions held at the Town Centre and vast sports fields to enjoy at The Green.
Education
Education opportunities are endless at North Shore with three modern schools and two childcare centres located within the community. North Shore State School and St Clare’s Catholic Primary School cater to students from Prep to Grade 6, and Townsville Grammar is a learning hub for students from Prep to Grade 12. Petit Early Learning Journey Childcare Centre also has two locations within North Shore, and a wealth of additional schooling is nearby including the world-class James Cook University.
Shopping
Our community is seamlessly connected to the thriving North Shore Town Centre which is the civic heart of Townsville’s northern beaches. The Town Centre offers the convenience of a Bunnings Warehouse, Woolworths, Dominos, McDonalds, a Caltex Star Mart and 13 specialty stores for everything you need on a daily basis. Future plans for this retail mecca include a Homemaker precinct, tavern and village centre, which will provide more than 8,000 full time jobs. To get the latest news about the Town Centre, register your details here.
Transport
While the award-winning North Shore community has been designed to ensure everything you need is minutes from home, heading further afield is also. With regular Sunbus public transport services, accessing the Townsville CBD, surrounding ports, James Cook University, Stockland Townsville and beyond is stress-free. With the Bruce Highway only minutes away, you can hit the road to head quick head north or south. For longer journeys, Townsville Airport is a short 10km from home.
Location
Enjoy being close to everything with Townsville CBD only 13km away. Take time out at our renowned Strand precinct of sail across to Magnetic Island. Home feels like a holiday at North Shore, with each residence no more than 200m from lush open space in a central location that enjoys coastal breezes and sweeping views to both Hervey Range and Castle Hill.
Liveability comes first at North Shore
Our latest liveability survey found 97% of North Shore residents agree they are satisfied with their standard of living. It found 90% agree they are proud to live at North Shore and 91% agree that it is a desirable community. Residents also give proximity to local parks and nature a 98% rating and ease of walking or cycling around North Shore is rated at 94%.
With leafy streetscapes, well-equipped parklands and expansive green zones, it’s no wonder North Shore residents are so proud of their community.
Learn more about North Shore
Take the first step in making the next decade yours at North Shore. Enquire with us today. To discover more about the North Shore community, register your details to stay updated with the latest news, event invitations, land releases, and house and land packages sent straight to your inbox.
Call 07 4774 3844
Visit the North Shore Sales and Information Centre at Barramundi Circuit in Burdell, Queensland.
Open daily from 10am – 5pm
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