[1] Condon is part of the Upper Ross District and is the first of three suburbs along Riverway Drive.

Townsville's Ring road (now part of the Bruce Highway) runs through Condon with the Vickers Bridge across the Ross River connecting Condon with Douglas and the southern suburbs.

It was named by Queensland Place Names Board on 1 March 1969[2] after the Irish Condon family (William Condon) who had settled on the Ross River and had a dairy farm.

[6][7][8] In 2018 Carinity purchased the school from the Uniting Church with the intention of re-instating its secondary education program.

[11][14] Shalom Christian College is a private primary and secondary (Prep-12) school for boys and girls at 190 Hervey's Range Road (19°19′11″S 146°42′40″E / 19.3197°S 146.7110°E / -19.3197; 146.7110 (Shalom Christian College)).