Cooktown

19.3% of Cooktown's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

638 family households lived in Cooktown; 35.6% were couple families and 19.4% were one-parent families.

40.0% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Cooktown had 2,746 residents at the 2021 Census.

21.6% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

36.1% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 85.8% of occupied private dwellings in Cooktown.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 8.4% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.7% of occupied private dwellings.

37.5% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

23.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

39.2% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Cooktown had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 34.0% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 34.7%, while 20.1% had four or more usual residents.

8.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

60.3% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

0.3% used only a train, tram or bus, while 8.8% walked or cycled.

7.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

One-car households formed 41.0% of the total.

51.3% of households had two or more vehicles.

51.3% were at the same address five years earlier, while 48.7% reported a different address.

12.6% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

74.7% of residents used only English at home.

9.1% used a language other than English at home.

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

12.6% of Cooktown's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 87.4% was born in Australia.

0.1% of residents were born in China.

0.3% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 81.2%.

English ancestry accounted for 31.1% of ancestry responses in Cooktown.

Australian ancestry made up 33.9% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.7% of responses.

20.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 13.1% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.9%.

Health care and social assistance employed 19.0% of workers, and education and training employed 10.6%.

The labour-force participation rate was 50.6%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

29.3% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 13.5% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.4%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

58.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

6.0% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

4.6% reported asthma, 7.8% arthritis and 3.9% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.9% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.5% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 10.6%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 37.4%.

Median household income was $1,215 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 $230 per week.

Working from home was 8.2% in Cooktown, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 37.5% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 39.2% in Cooktown, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.