[3] Springwood is a significant activity centre in the region, with a major bus station, two hotels, a 24-hour McDonald's, two state primary schools, a state high school, a campus of Calvary Christian College, a public library, three shopping malls, ambulance, fire and police stations and many places of worship (including Church of Christ, Uniting and Seventh-day Adventist churches).

An increasing amount of commercial development is also occurring in the south-eastern parts of Springwood, an area unofficially known as Chatswood Hills.

[citation needed] Springwood is situated in the Yugarabul traditional Aboriginal country of the Brisbane and surrounding regions.

[4] Indigenous Australian people from the Yugambeh and Jaggera language groups inhabited the local area.

[6] Until September 2006, Springwood was home to an IKEA store, before moving to a new location in Slacks Creek, directly across the Pacific Motorway from Chatswood Hills.

[citation needed] From the 2000s, both the Queensland government and Logan City Council proposed that Springwood be redeveloped as a Principal Activity Centre (PAC).

The paper, in addition to its follow-up paper in 2009, cites multiple reasons for developing a PAC in Springwood: the area's close proximity to the Pacific Motorway, its strategic location between Brisbane City and the Gold Coast, existing urban infrastructure and availability of affordable housing.

[7] In October 2009, Logan City Council partnered with GHD to create a master plan for redeveloping Springwood as a PAC.

[8] The plan proposes a significant change in form and function of the suburb compared to its current state.

[3] These proposals offer a framework for future planning scheme amendments made by Logan City Council.

Springwood Summit was held in October 2016 to jumpstart further public interest and discussion of the suburb.

The most common countries of birth were New Zealand 8.4%, England 4.1%, India 1.6%, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 1.2% and Philippines 1.0%.

Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 1.4%, Korean 1.0%, Cantonese 0.9%, Romanian 0.6% and Punjabi 0.6%.