A wide range of facilities and services can be found nearby to the Goodna Shopping Centre. Common amongst these, there are a variety of government services, multiple medical services as well as large number of financial service providers, supermarkets, multiple sporting clubs, an aquatic centre, retirement villages, football clubs and the local Goodna Scout Group.
Goodna is well known for the annual Jacaranda Festival. This is held near the end of October each year. This festival is held when the local Jacaranda trees, located throughout Goodna and Ipswich, are into their flowering cycle. This is a very popular event each year, with more than 10,000 residents and tourists attending the Jacaranda Festival annually, which has been run since 1968. The festival can be found in Evan Marginson Park near the Goodna train station.