Welcome to the City of Townsville

As part of our 2019 Christmas Together celebrations, Council will be facilitating a Festive Flag competition with school students across the city.

School aged students are invited to submit a design celebrating Christmas in the tropics.

Townsville City Council is committed to providing infrastructure that is accessible by all.

With modern mapping technology, we can provide an accessibility rating system for our town.

Council wants you along for the ride, so help us to change the gears on Townsville’s travel options by filling out our transport survey.

Tell us your train of thought for a change to win one of five $100 vouchers!

Did you know that you can choose how you're billed for your water?

The Water Opt-in period commenced on Monday 29 July and runs until Sunday 25 August 2019.

Townsville Dashboards is a digital platform to access high quality, current data and information about Townsville, informing and enabling the Townsville community and those with an interest in investing in the region.

2019 Animal Registrations are now open. Register or renew your pet’s details before 31st August.

Visit our Animal Registrations page to find out more!

The Right to Information Act 2009 gives you the right to access and amend information held by public section agencies in QLD.

Find out what you can and can't access!

Council’s city-wide kerbside collection service is back in 2019. Select your suburb from the drop down on our Kerbside Collection webpage to find out when your suburb will be collected.

If you are 12-18 years old, are a budding artist, interested in art or just want to place to hang out, Loud Lounge on Monday afternoons is the place for you.

TicketShop at the Townsville Civic Theatre will be closed from Monday 5 August due to the works required from the recent monsoon event.

During this period, TicketShop will operate from:Customer Service Centre - 103 Walker St &
Townsville Stadium. EFTPOS only.

Ticketek only available at Townsville Stadium.

Pokemon and Lego!

What more could you want?

Join us for both and meet others with similar interests.

Learn to digitise your organisation’s slides, negatives, photographs, papers and books to conservation standards during this free class. A trainer will teach you how to identify the best format and device to use in our Digitisation Lounge to preserve and save your precious materials.

CityLibraries Flinders Street

Free though bookings required

A touring exhibition of works by Robert MacPherson explores language, related systems that seek to categorise knowledge, and how changes to both can affect the gradual disappearance of specialist knowledge as generations pass.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
11 July - 1 September

Join us every Tuesday afternoon for personalised help with a range of digital technology queries: mobile devices, emails, photos online learning, eBooks, apps and more.

CityLibraries Thuringowa Central

Get personalised help with a range of technology queries. Learn how to troubleshoot problems with portable devise, create an email account, search the internet and more!

Unleash the mess! Increase your child’s confidence and develop their fine and gross motor skills by exploring fun, sensory and creative Messy Play.

Various dates and locations.

We have three library branches and a mobile library so come in and explore your library.

Throughout the Townsville region we have over 300 parks and open space areas, four botanics gardens, a great many walkways and bikeways throughout the city and surrounds and a variety of camping and caravan locations to suit everyone.

Street Art as an important factor in creating a vibrant and lively city centre. Contributing to placemaking and urban living transformation.

Image - Leans Mother Earth 2017, street art mural painted in Odgen St, Townsville

Townsville has four botanic gardens: Anderson Gardens, Palmetum, Queens Gardens and Dan Gleeson Gardens and they are a beautiful sight to behold. Visit them today!

Council has a range of sports and leisure facilities to suit every taste including boating and fishing locations, pools, cricket, AFL, skateboard parks and more.

The 15-hectare heritage precinct commemorates the military and Aboriginal heritage of the Kissing Point headland through 32 specially commissioned public artworks, extensive interpretive signage and the restoration of significant elements of the Kissing Point Fort complex. Large-scale landscaping works have also opened up the area for public use.

Discover Townsville from its humble beginnings.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is Townsville's premier regional art gallery, offering a dynamic range of local, national and international exhibitions complemented by workshops, talks and a host of other programs.