Mount Cotton is a suburb located south-east of
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in the Redland
City local government area.
Mount Cotton is a koala conservation area. In
the west, the Venman Bushland National Park
preserves a section of bushland along
Tingalpa Creek.

To the east, a wildlife corridor goes from the
mountain towards Eprapah scout
environmental site and Victoria Point, along
Eprapah Creek

In the 2011 Census the population of Mount
Cotton is 4,804, 50.8% female and 49.2% male.
The median/average age of the Mount Cotton
population is 32 years of age, 5 years below the
Australian average. 76.8% of people living in
Mount Cotton were born in Australia. The other
top responses for country of birth were England
7.8%, New Zealand 4.1%, South Africa 2.4%,
Scotland 0.7%, Ireland 0.5%. 93.7% of people
speak English as their first language 0.7%
Afrikaans, 0.3% German, 0.3% Dutch, 0.2%
Portuguese, 0.2% Japanese.