Download coordinates as: Thornlands is a coastal residential locality in the City of Redland, Queensland, Australia.

[1] Thornlands is located approximately 32 kilometres (20 miles) by road south-east Brisbane, the capital of the Queensland.

[citation needed] Thornlands began as part of the area then encompassed by Cleveland, and was leased (along with most of the land between Ormiston and the Logan River), to Joseph Clarke.

The area was settled, like the surrounding suburbs, primarily by farmers, mostly growing fruit such as citrus, bananas and mangoes.

It was established by three Lutheran congregations from Cleveland, Redland Bay and Mount Cotton.

Land on Beveridge Road in Thornlands was purchased and the secondary campus of the renamed Faith Lutheran College, Redlands opened on 28 January 2003.

[7][12] It replaced Mount Carmel Catholic Secondary School College which opened in Wynnum in 1957 and closed on 31 December 1992.

The other top responses for country of birth were England 9.2%, New Zealand 5.6%, South Africa 2.1%, Scotland 1.2%, Finland 0.6%.

91% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.6% Afrikaans, 0.6% Finnish, 0.4% German, 0.3% Dutch, 0.3% Italian.

It offers tertiary education in theology, including preparation for the ministry in the Church of the Nazarene.