Bilinga

9.5% of Bilinga's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

478 family households lived in Bilinga; 23.6% were couple families and 15.7% were one-parent families.

22.4% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Bilinga had 1,883 residents at the 2021 Census.

29.5% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

41.1% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 23.1% of occupied private dwellings in Bilinga.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 3.6% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 72.4% of occupied private dwellings.

30.4% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

21.6% were buying their home with a mortgage.

48.0% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Bilinga had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 35.7% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 44.6%, while 10.8% had four or more usual residents.

15.3% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

58.9% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

1.4% used only a train, tram or bus, while 5.9% walked or cycled.

5.8% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

One-car households formed 48.1% of the total.

45.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

41.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 58.2% reported a different address.

18.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

85.5% of residents used only English at home.

6.6% used a language other than English at home.

0.6% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.2% spoke Hindi.

18.7% of Bilinga's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 81.3% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

0.7% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 82.5%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.5% of ancestry responses in Bilinga.

Australian ancestry made up 30.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.4% of responses.

22.1% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 13.7% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.1%.

Health care and social assistance employed 16.6% of workers, and education and training employed 7.1%.

The labour-force participation rate was 57.4%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

28.0% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.8%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

58.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

8.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.5% reported asthma, 9.5% arthritis and 3.2% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

24.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 18.2%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 30.5%.

Median household income was $1,435 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,000.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $428 per week.

Working from home was 15.3% in Bilinga, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 30.4% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 48.0% in Bilinga, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.