Springfield Lakes is one of the suburbs created within Greater Springfield,[9] a 2,850 hectare site which is Australia's largest master planned community.[10] For comparison purposes this is more than half the size of Cairns. The suburb was specifically located to reduce growth along the Brisbane-Gold Coast corridor in South East Queensland.[citation needed] It was officially named and bounded in 2000.[2]

Springfield Lakes State School opened in 2007.[11]

Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School was established in 2013 by the Catholic Education division of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.[12]

In the 2016 census Springfield Lakes had a population of 15,318 people.[1]

On Friday 1 September 2017, Our Lady of the Southern Cross Catholic Church was officially opened and blessed by Archbishop Mark Coleridge, as the first Catholic church in Greater Springfield. Prior to its opening, Catholic services had been held at St Augustine's College in Augustine Heights