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Annandale, Townsville — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Annandale spreads across the south-western side of Townsville, a residential suburb of the City of Townsville in tropical Queensland.
About Annandale
Where to stay in Annandale
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Townsville keeps the rooms. Annandale is residential, a south-western suburb of the City of Townsville where a stay means a quiet street rather than the run of hotels found closer to the centre of Townsville. The trade is space against distance.
Anyone choosing Annandale takes the south-western edge of the city and drives in, while central Townsville holds the beds for most visitors to this part of Queensland.
About Annandale
What are the main landmarks in Annandale?
No monument stands within Annandale itself. The suburb is residential ground on the south-western side of Townsville, and the sights that bring visitors to this part of Queensland belong to the city centre and the wider City of Townsville rather than to its streets. Townsville is the reference point.
Everything Annandale lacks in set pieces it makes up in proximity, with the whole of the City of Townsville within a short drive of its south-western streets.
What is the history of Annandale?
Annandale's written record is thin, a suburb of the City of Townsville whose story runs with the growth of the city on its south-western side rather than apart from it. Queensland records give no date. The 2021 census counted Annandale as a suburb in its own right within Townsville.
What the suburb has instead of a founding story is a place in the modern shape of Townsville, out on the south-western approaches to the city.
Where is Annandale?
Annandale lies on the south-western side of Townsville, well inside the tropics, part of the City of Townsville in Queensland, Australia.
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Updated September 2026