Bentley Park

25.8% of Bentley Park's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

2,210 family households lived in Bentley Park; 44.2% were couple families and 22.3% were one-parent families.

47.8% of local families included children under 15. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Bentley Park had 8,360 residents at the 2021 Census.

29.5% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

18.2% were 55 or older. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 96.8% of occupied private dwellings in Bentley Park.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 0.9% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 2.0% of occupied private dwellings.

18.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

47.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

34.7% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Bentley Park had 3.0 people.

One-person households made up 15.4% of occupied homes. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 33.1%, while 33.3% had four or more usual residents.

9.6% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

62.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

0.9% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.2% walked or cycled.

2.9% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

One-car households formed 29.3% of the total.

67.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

51.5% were at the same address five years earlier, while 48.5% reported a different address.

16.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

79.2% of residents used only English at home.

13.4% used a language other than English at home.

0.2% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

16.7% of Bentley Park's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 83.3% was born in Australia.

0.1% of residents were born in China.

0.4% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 86.9%.

English ancestry accounted for 31.3% of ancestry responses in Bentley Park.

Australian ancestry made up 34.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.3% of responses.

14.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 8.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 13.2%.

Health care and social assistance employed 16.1% of workers, and education and training employed 8.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 67.9%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

39.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 19.9% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.3%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

64.0% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.7% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.3% reported asthma, 5.7% arthritis and 4.4% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.6% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 47.6%.

Median household income was $1,831 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,517.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $385 per week.

Working from home was 9.6% in Bentley Park, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 18.1% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Renting accounted for 34.7% in Bentley Park, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.