It was gazetted on16 August 1975 and was named Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, who was an early land holder freeholder in the area.

[8] It comprises a mixture of small-lot and acreage residential homes along with a small number of remaining farms.

[11] John Oxley the first European visitor, named it Termination Plains when he landed in the Priors Pocket area in 1823.

[12] In 1849, The Moreton Bay Courier noted that land near "Moghill Creek" might be soon put up for sale, with settlers who arrived on The Fortitude given some assistance to help with a purchase.

[11] The Moggill State School opened on 12 February 1866,[14] with 53 students enrolled, and an average attendance of 31-24 boys and 13 girls.

[11] The school began as a two-room schoolhouse and remaining that way until 1970 when the population of the area started expanding rapidly.

There are parts of the district where the soil is patchy, and there are places where it is rather difficult to cultivate, but these disadvantages are more than counterbalanced by the richness of the remaining portions, from which crops of more than average yield are taken each successive season.

[19] In 1886 Colledge Brothers, a contracting firm, secured a 10-year lease with the option of a further 10-year extension from Thomas Sugars to open the Moggill Blue Metal Quarry,[20] four miles above the Bremer River, employing 20 men.

[19] In 1968, the original Moggill State School building was moved to an adjacent block of land to become the Anglican Church.

[19] The name of the creek is derived from 'Magil', from Yuggera (Jagera) Nation language meaning water dragon.

There was vocal opposition to the subdivision from Moggill residents[citation needed], who wished to preserve the rural amenity of the area with larger block sizes.

67.1% of people living in Moggill were born in Australia, similar to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were England 7.3%, South Africa 5.8%, New Zealand 3.6%, India 1.4%, Zimbabwe 0.9%.

86.3% of people spoke only English at home; the next most popular languages were 1.7% Afrikaans, 0.9% Sinhalese, 0.9% Mandarin, 0.7% Spanish, 0.6% Korean.

[34][35] Moggill is within the Brisbane West District of the Metropolitan North Region[36] of the Queensland Police Service.

Moggill is located within the City West Command of the Brisbane Region of the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service.

During the 2011 Brisbane River flood the Uniting Church, corner Moggill and Kangaroo Gully Roads, was used as an unofficial evacuation centre.

The communities on either side of the Brisbane River have for a long time been divided on the topic of replacing the ferry service with a bridge.

Those opposed to a bridge say: the ferry is historical; the rural lifestyle on the north side of the river will be replaced with urban sprawl; Moggill Road already suffers from congestion; and the cost would be too great.

The Council Cab is offered to a pre-defined list of residents who find it difficult to get to their local shops.

[67] From July 2010, Queensland Urban Utilities took over the management of Brisbane City Council's sewerage catchment system, which includes Moggill.

The Council's preferred augmentation works involve "developing a greenfield sewerage system in Moggill and Bellbowrie" with 10 pumping stations that connect to Wacol WWTP being switched off.

[70] If Queensland Urban Utilities adopted a Brisbane City Council treatment capacity strategy, its implementation will result in Wacol WWTP being able to treat 12 ML per day to meet ultimate flows from the catchment, which Moggill plays a small part in.

Moggill is located within the South East Queensland electricity distribution network owned and operated by Energex.

[73] From July 2007, Moggill residents and businesses were able to choose their electricity retailer due to the commencement of competition.

Due to the history of the Moggill area, there are several sports clubs that use the town's name in their title, they are located in neighbouring Bellbowrie and nearby Pullenvale.

In 2010, a cricket oval was constructed on the corner of Moggill and Priors Pocket Roads as part of a residential housing subdivision known as The Pitch.