Mount Louisa, a residential and industrial suburb, is 10 km south-west of central Townsville and immediately west of Garbutt. The topographical Mount Louisa was named by a stockman in 1864.

During World War II Mount Louisa was an adjunct to the large Garbutt aerodrome, and had a large depot and a runway known as Stock Route Airstrip. Upwards of 4000 US personnel were stationed there.

Mount Louisa's urbanisation dates from the 1970s. The Assemblies of God established a church and the Calvary Christian College in Bayswater Road (1978). Housing areas have extended along the east-west Bayswater Road corridor and southwards toward the Mount Louisa range. A new suburb with low-set houses, it has attracted residents with better-than-average weekly earnings.

Mount Louisa's census populations have been:

Census DatePopulation
19862992
19963707
2001*3951
20064625
20117992

*including Bohle and Mount St John

Rodney Cardell, Wings around us: wartime memories of aviation in northern Australia: an autobiographical account of wartime memories of the Stock Route Air Strip, Mount Louisa, Townsville, Brisbane, Amphion Press, 1992

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