Burnett Heads

13.1% of Burnett Heads's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

851 family households lived in Burnett Heads; 24.1% were couple families and 17.0% were one-parent families.

25.3% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Burnett Heads had 2,908 residents at the 2021 Census.

15.4% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

51.3% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 93.8% of occupied private dwellings in Burnett Heads.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 0.2% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.8% of occupied private dwellings.

49.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

27.6% were buying their home with a mortgage.

23.3% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Burnett Heads had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 26.1% of occupied homes. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

Two-person households represented 46.7%, while 14.4% had four or more usual residents.

7.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

71.7% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 2.7% walked or cycled.

4.6% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

One-car households formed 37.7% of the total.

57.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

56.1% were at the same address five years earlier, while 43.9% reported a different address.

14.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

92.0% of residents used only English at home.

3.2% used a language other than English at home.

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

14.5% of Burnett Heads's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 85.5% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.2% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 90.5%.

English ancestry accounted for 46.2% of ancestry responses in Burnett Heads.

Australian ancestry made up 40.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.3% of responses.

14.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 10.7% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 20.2% of workers, and education and training employed 6.6%.

The labour-force participation rate was 44.2%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

23.9% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 14.3% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.2%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

46.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

12.7% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.6% reported asthma, 17.6% arthritis and 8.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.3% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 49.5%.

Median household income was $1,053 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,300.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $290 per week.

Working from home was 7.2% in Burnett Heads, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 49.1% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 23.3% in Burnett Heads, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.