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Algester is an outer suburb of City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is south-west of the central business district. The suburb's population was estimated in the 2011 census at 8,262.〔 The suburbs of Algester, Calamvale and now Parkinson, sit on the southern border or boundary of the City of Brisbane local government area with suburbs of Logan City such as Browns Plains and Regents Park. The suburb's name is a corruption of the name of the English town of "Alcester". Briefly in the mid to late 1970s the suburb was colloquially named Ridgewood Heights after the Ridgewood Heights property development that then made up most of its land area, but had officially been known as Algester from 1972. ==Demographics== In the 2011 Census the population of Algester is 8,262, 51.3% female and 48.7% male. The median/average age of the Algester population is 34 years of age, 3 years below the Australian average. 58.5% of people living in Algester were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 7.1%, England 4%, China 2.9%, Philippines 1.8%, India 1.5%. 70.9% of people speak English as their first language 4% Mandarin, 2.2% Cantonese, 1.2% Spanish, 0.9% Hindi, 0.8% Vietnamese. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Algester, Queensland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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