Banksia Beach real estate

Separate houses make up 93% of occupied homes in Banksia Beach, above the 75% across Queensland. Flats or apartments account for 1% of occupied homes, against 12% for the state, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 6%, against 12%. Together these shares suggest that, at the 2021 Census, living in an apartment building was rare in this suburb compared with Queensland as a whole.

Bedroom counts at the 2021 Census show 58% of homes in Banksia Beach with four or more bedrooms, above the 39% across Queensland, while 4% have two bedrooms or fewer, against 22% for the state. Three-bedroom homes sit at 37%, the same as Queensland. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings in Banksia Beach were unoccupied, below the 9% recorded across the state.

A smaller share of households rent here: 14% in Banksia Beach, below the 33% across Queensland. Median rent is $440 a week, above the state's $365, while median household income is $1,283 a week, below the state's $1,675. Dividing the median rent by the median income of all households, renters or not, gives 34%, against 22% across Queensland. That ratio is this page's own arithmetic from two medians, not a measure of what renters pay.

Among renting households, 77% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 66% across Queensland; the rest rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. 27% of households in Banksia Beach are paying off a mortgage, below the state's 34%, and the median mortgage repayment is $1,950 a month, above the $1,733 across Queensland.

7,180 people lived in the suburb of Banksia Beach at the 2021 Census. Their median age was 59 years, above the median of 38 across Queensland, which suggests a population older than the state's as a whole. An average household in Banksia Beach holds 2.3 people, below 2.5 across Queensland, suggesting smaller households here than across the state.

46% of people aged five and over in Banksia Beach were living at the same address five years earlier, below the 48% across Queensland. That figure comes from a single 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, so it covers those five years and no others.