Slacks Creek is a suburb of Brisbane,
Queensland and is about 20 kms south-
southeast of QLD's capital city of Brisbane. In
the 2011 Australian census the population of
Slacks Creek was 10,435 when there were 5,293
Females and 5,142 Males living there. The
median age for people living in Slacks Creek
was 33.
Slacks Creek is a suburb of Logan City,
Queensland, Australia. Much of the suburbs
eastern edge is aligned with the Pacific
Motorway.
The creek that gave its name to the district is
part of the Logan River catchment and was
named after the Slack family who had a cattle
run there before the days of closer settlement.
The Aboriginal name for it was Mungaree, place
of fishes, which is the name they gave to their
property. In September 2006 Queensland's
only IKEA store moved from its original home in
the nearby suburb Rochedale South to its new
location in Slacks Creek. IKEA Logan is now the
largest IKEA store in the southern hemisphere
and the third largest in the world