Download coordinates as: Dayboro is a rural town and locality in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.

The Garumngar language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Ipswich, Brisbane, Somerset and Moreton Bay councils, particularly the towns of Dayboro and Esk extending east towards Moggill.

[2] The creek and the adjoining area, which became known as Terrors Paddock, derived their names from a grey Arab stallion, Terah, owned in the 1850s by Captain John Griffin of the Whiteside run.

The failure of Day's sugar growing experiment within a few years brought about the gradual breaking up of his large land holdings and facilitated the further development of the area.

[5] In 1915, in an article urging the extension of the railway from Enoggera to Terror's Creek, the township was described as "being set prettily on a hillside, and being the centre of miles of agricultural, dairying and fruit lands".

2–3], there was "an up-to-date butter factory, bank, several stores, an excellent hotel, a large sawmill, public hall, etc., and a community ever ready to co-operate in the advancement of their district".

Although the first known inhabitant, John McKenzie, operated a pit sawmill just south of the townsite from 1866, the third and final name selected for Dayboro honours another notable early settler, William Henry Day.

[citation needed] St Aidan's Anglican Church was officially opened on Sunday 6 April 1930 by Archbishop Gerald Sharp.

96.2% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.1% Dutch, 0.4% German, 0.4% Swedish, 0.2% Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole).

[18] The Moreton Bay City Council operates a mobile library service which visits the Hay Cottage on William Street.

[21] The Dayboro branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the Moreton Bay City Council Building in Williams Street.

It was first held in 1991, and now over 20,000 visitors attend annually, attracted by the entertainment, demonstrations and market stalls in Williams St (the main street of Dayboro), as well as the Antique & Collectables Fair at the Showgrounds.