Charters Towers City

19.1% of Charters Towers City's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

499 family households lived in Charters Towers City; 26.1% were couple families and 24.4% were one-parent families.

35.9% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Charters Towers City had 2,219 residents at the 2021 Census.

21.3% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

34.1% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 85.8% of occupied private dwellings in Charters Towers City.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 12.8% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.6% of occupied private dwellings.

34.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

22.7% were buying their home with a mortgage.

43.0% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Charters Towers City had 2.1 people.

One-person households made up 38.6% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 35.5%, while 13.9% had four or more usual residents.

5.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

60.7% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

2.5% used only a train, tram or bus, while 10.1% walked or cycled.

13.5% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about twice the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 42.9% of the total.

44.1% of households had two or more vehicles.

57.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 42.1% reported a different address.

7.8% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

82.1% of residents used only English at home.

4.4% used a language other than English at home.

0.1% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.4% spoke Hindi.

7.8% of Charters Towers City's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 92.2% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.5% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 83.6%.

English ancestry accounted for 34.1% of ancestry responses in Charters Towers City.

Australian ancestry made up 41.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.8% of responses.

17.4% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 6.5% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 8.9%.

Health care and social assistance employed 17.2% of workers, and education and training employed 15.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 50.4%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

26.7% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.6% worked part time.

Unemployment was 8.2%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

49.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

9.6% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.1% reported asthma, 10.0% arthritis and 6.5% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.6% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.2% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 10.1%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 38.6%.

Median household income was $1,078 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,009.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $220 per week.

Working from home was 5.2% in Charters Towers City, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 34.3% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 43.0% in Charters Towers City, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.