Holland Park is an older suburb made of largely post-World War II wooden homes.

There are a number of schools and parks in the suburb and a retail zone with shops and a public bar.

[6][7] In the early 1880s, almost 300 First Nations persons from afar as Ipswich would meet on a creek bank in the suburb for a corroboree.

[11][12] Framont Estate on Logan Road was advertised for auction on 30 Oct 1926, 55 allotments were for sale.

Estates had "all perfect building blocks, nice slope, high and breezy, extra large areas, well drained, ideal surroundings, graded and formed roads".

[17][18] In 1908, on the peripheral of today's suburb with Mount Gravatt, a mosque was built for 'Brisbane's Mohammedan community'.

[20] The imam of the 1930s, Fazal Abdul, was from Afghanistan, and served mostly the residents of Brisbane, but this was extended to 'Travellers, Indian hawkers, and Afghan bushmen from the far inland, and farmers and storekeepers from the country'.

In 1918, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, James Duhig purchased 3 acres (1.2 ha) of land in the Yuletide Estate for a church and school.

The new church was 30 by 18 feet (9.1 by 5.5 m) and was an old building that they had acquired and removed from another site and reconstructed at 10 Yuletide Street off Logan Road, now in Holland Park West.

[33] During World War II, the United States Army established the 42nd General Hospital with over 2000 beds on Logan Road in 1942.

After the war, Brisbane had a housing shortage and people began squatting in some of the American army hospital huts, then owned by the Australian Government.

[39] Following complaints that police stations were not readily identifiable, the Queensland Department of Works was asked to supply conspicuous illuminated signs showing 'POLICE' in black letters on a white background.

77.3% of people living in Holland Park were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%.

85.1% of people only spoke English at home, while the next most commonly spoken languages were Greek (1.2%), Somali (1.1%), Spanish (0.9%), Arabic (0.8%), and Hindi (0.7%).

[58][64] The Brisbane City Council operates a public library at 81 Seville Road.