Stanthorpe Today

Profile

The region’s most popular community newspaper Stanthorpe Today offers local businesses the opportunity to get their advertising campaign into homes alongside the latest unique local news, sport results and features on topics of interest to locals.

Stanthorpe Today covers the Granite Belt region of the Southern Downs Shire. The Southern Downs has a more diverse economy than the significant majority of other local government areas across Queensland. The 'big five' industries in relation to Gross regional Product input are agriculture, construction, manufacturing, retail and health care and social services.

During the 2014-2015 year financial year, the local economy of the Southern Downs was $1,845 billion, and grew at an annual rate of 4.8%, which is significantly higher than the Queensland average (2.3 percent) during the same period.

Over 4,000 local businesses, with a recorded annual turnover of $1.3 billion in the 2014-2015 financial year operate in the Southern Downs.

According to the Queensland market monitor, the Southern Downs recorded a significantly higher gross rental yield for single residential houses (5.6 percent) than Brisbane (3.5 percent) in the September Quarter 2015.

Staffed and managed day to day by locals Stanthorpe Today is part of Star News Group, an Australian family owned publishing company with over 100 years’ experience – connecting people and communities.

Circulation List

Stanthorpe, Ballandean, Applethorpe, Dalveen, Glen Aplin, Wallangarra, Summit.

Industries

Almost 50% of businesses are involved in primary production, followed by construction (10%), retail (9%) and property and business services (8.7%).

Sections

House, Livestock, Gardening, Farming