Peranga is a small town on the Darling Downs, 70 kilometres (43.5 mi) north-west of Toowoomba

Toowoomba, Queensland

Toowoomba is a city in Southern Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. With an estimated district population of 128,600, Toowoomba is Australia's second largest inland city and its largest non-capital inland city...

 and 55 km north-east of Dalby

Dalby, Queensland

Dalby is a town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, and is located approximately west of the state capital, Brisbane, at the junction of the Warrego, Moonie and Bunya Highways. Dalby is the administrative centre of the Western Downs Region and the centre of Australia's richest...

 in Queensland

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, Australia

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. At the 2006 census

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, Peranga and the surrounding area had a population of 183.

Once the prosperous hub of a rich dairy-producing area, Peranga went into sharp decline after the closure of the Oakey-Cooyar railway line

Oakey-Cooyar railway line, Queensland

The Oakey–Cooyar railway line was a branch line in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The small town of Cooyar is about half way to Kingaroy in the South Burnett region. A plan to connect Kingaroy to the south via Cooyar did not eventuate and left Cooyar at the terminus of a...

 in the mid-1960s. The hotel burnt down in 1967, followed by the school in 1973. Today, the township population numbers about fifty. The Peranga & District Bowls Club, opened in 1955, is still in operation. There is a post office and general store, a one-man police station and a town hall.

Together with Peranga, the surrounding towns of Quinalow

Quinalow

Quinalow is a town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The town is located in the Toowoomba Region local government area and on the bank of Myall Creek, north west of the state capital, Brisbane and north west of the regional centre of Toowoomba.Quinalow was affected by the...

 (10 km west), Maclagan (13 km north-west) and Kulpi (9 km south) are interdependent, having between them all the amenities of a small town. Kulpi has a hotel and tennis courts; Quinalow a garage, cafe, hotel, rural supplier, school, swimming pool, caravan park, library, tractor dealership, tennis courts, hall, and skate park; and Maclagan has a post office and general store, two wineries, a small museum, a butcher, a kindergarten and several parks.