Carters Ridge is a suburb of South Eastern,
Queensland and is about 116 kms north-northwest
of QLD's capital city of Brisbane. In the 2011
Australian census the population of Carters Ridge
was 401 when there were 198 Females and 203
Males living there. The median age for people
living in Carters Ridge was 42.
Carters Ridge (QLD) is in the Shire of Cooloola
which was a local government area located about
170 kilometres (106 mi) north of Brisbane – the
state capital of Queensland, Australia. The shire
covered an area of 2,968.8 square kilometres
(1,146.3 sq mi), and was the product of a merger in
1993 between the City of Gympie and the Shire of
Widgee, which had both existed since 1879-1880. It
merged with several other LGAs to form the
Gympie Region on 15 March 2008.