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The South Western railway line forms the south western boundary of the locality, which is served by Drayton railway station
Mount Peel is in the north west of the locality rising to
To the west of Drayton, the southern part of ANZAC Avenue forms the axis of a growing industrial and commercial district extending west and north towards Glenvale. Drayton has a core of homes dating to the 19th century and a substantial number of homes and commercial premises dating from the mid years of the 20th century. More recently a large number of detached homes and growing numbers of multi unit dwellings were built in the 1990s and 2000s, mostly targeted at students from the nearby University of Southern Queensland.

The Drayton area was known as The Springs from around 1840 to 1847. The Drayton National School (later Drayton State School) established on 16 August 1851. It is one of the oldest state primary schools in Queensland. One of the oldest buildings in the Drayton area is the Royal Bull's Head Inn. The town also saw the area's first newspaper, the Darling Downs Gazette, in 1858. From 1887 to 1949, Drayton had its own local government, the Shire of Drayton. On Sunday 31 March 1940, 500 people attended a ceremony to place a cairn to mark the site of the first church on the Darling Downs in memory of its founder Canon Glennie. The Anglican church was on the corner of Rudd Street and Cambooya Street
In the , Drayton had a population of 1,710 people.

Drayton State School is a government primary (Prep 6) school for boys and girls at 71–89 Brisbane Street In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 321 students with 36 teachers (29 full time equivalent) and 16 non teaching staff (10 full time equivalent). It includes a special education program.

St Matthew's Anglican Church is at Glennie Street.