Separate houses at 94% of homes
Separate houses account for 94% of occupied homes in the Lockyer Valley council area, above the Queensland figure of 75%. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses come to 4%, below 12% across the state, and flats or apartments to 1%, below the state's 12%. Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 48%, above 39% across Queensland, and three-bedroom homes make up 38%, above the state's 37%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer make up 12%, below 22% statewide. On Census night 8% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the Queensland figure of 9%.
Mortgages, outright owners and renting in the Lockyer Valley
Paying off a mortgage is the position of 41% of households here, above 34% across Queensland, and 33% own their home outright, above the state's 29%. Renting households come to 23%, below the 33% recorded statewide. Of those renting households, 64% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 66% across Queensland.
The median mortgage repayment is $1,500 a month, below the Queensland median of $1,733, and the median rent is $300 a week, below the state's $365. Median household income is $1,457 a week, below $1,675 across Queensland. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median weekly rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below 22% across the state.
Who lives across the Lockyer Valley
Among people aged five and over in the Lockyer Valley council area, 53% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 48% across Queensland. That figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016. At the 2021 Census, 41,101 people lived in the Lockyer Valley council area. An average household held 2.7 people, above the Queensland figure of 2.5. The median age was 39 years, above 38 statewide.