Yatala

Yatala is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Yatala is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census Yatala had a population of 1,312 people.

St Joseph's School opened on November 1875 and closed on December 1877.In 1988, Bernie Powers operating as Power's Brewery opened a new brewery in Yatala. Powers entered a joint venture with Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) in 1992 and then sold completely to them in 1993. For CUB, it provided a modern efficient plant on a large site, ideal for their northern brewing operations. By 2010, CUB had expanded by the plant to over 20 times its original size, enabling it to produce one quarter of Australia's beer.Rivermount College opened on 1992.Since 2006 development has been rapidly occurring within the suburb, with over 300 businesses now established within its boundaries. This type of urban development is predicted to eventually encompass all the semi-rural land currently separating the Brisbane Metropolitan Area and Gold Coast City. Currently, there is approximately 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) of this land remaining between the two cities.

At the 2011 census Yatalahad a population of 1,346 people.In the 2016 census Yatala had a population of 1,312 people.

Yatala is home to the Yatala Pie Shop which claims to have been "a landmark in the Yatala area" for "more than 130 years" as of 2011. The restaurant is considered a common stop-over for travellers between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.