Download coordinates as: Rocklea is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

It was renamed Rocklea after a town in Dorset, England, with the opening of the Beenleigh railway line in 1884 as it was felt the original name was too long.

[13][14] In September 1884, 238 subdivided allotments of Rocky Waterholes Township Proper were auctioned by John Cameron.

[21][22] Show Ground Estate Rocklea was offered for sale in the late 1920s by Queensland Development Company, consisting of 104 allotments.

The Estate was adjacent to the Rocklea Showground and included Goburra, Corella, Boobook and Galah Streets.

[24][25] A congregation of the Church of Christ was formed in 1934, following some years of operating a Sunday school in the local Masonic Hall.

On Saturday 7 November 1953, a new church building was opened on the corner of Short Street and Granard Road.

[30][31] In November 1941 during World War II, the Rocklea Munitions Works was opened to make small arms ammunition and artillery shells for the Australian Army.

In 1943, it was repurposed to overhaul engines for the US Army Air Force operating in the South-West Pacific against the Japanese.

[34] The Brisbane Markets on a 53 hectares (130 acres) were officially opened on 31 August 1964 by the Premier of Queensland, Frank Nicklin.

69.4% of people spoke only English at home; the next most popular languages were 2.9% Russian, 2.8% Vietnamese, 2.1% Mandarin, 1.8% Tamil, 1.7% Arabic.

The Nyanda State High School in adjacent suburb Salisbury was closed by the Queensland Government in 2014,[45] with the property purchased by (and turned into a high-school campus of) Brisbane Christian College.

Many of the companies situated in Rocklea are part of the transport sector, with the proximity to Archerfield Airport being a drawcard.

The district park replaces the former Inala wastewater treatment plant and has a number of indoor and outdoor community spaces, playgrounds with water features, and picnic and barbeque facilities.

Flooding in Rocklea is particularly harmful to the coastal ecosystem because of the oil and other toxic chemicals which are washed downstream.

[51] The effect of flooding on the Brisbane Markets was minor in 1974 but since then the site has grown five times and in 2011 35 buildings were inundated.