Cooloola Cove

10.3% of Cooloola Cove's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

898 family households lived in Cooloola Cove; 18.7% were couple families and 12.6% were one-parent families.

16.7% of local families included children under 15. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Cooloola Cove had 2,921 residents at the 2021 Census.

12.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

61.6% were 55 or older. That is about twice the Rest of Qld rate.

Separate houses made up 96.0% of occupied private dwellings in Cooloola Cove.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 0.4% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.3% of occupied private dwellings.

59.4% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

25.8% were buying their home with a mortgage.

14.8% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

The average household in Cooloola Cove had 2.1 people.

One-person households made up 26.4% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 53.8%, while 10.0% 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.

61.9% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

0.7% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.4% walked or cycled.

1.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 39.5% of the total.

59.1% of households had two or more vehicles.

55.7% were at the same address five years earlier, while 44.3% reported a different address.

15.8% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

91.0% of residents used only English at home.

2.0% used a language other than English at home.

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

15.8% of Cooloola Cove's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 84.2% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 89.4%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.7% of ancestry responses in Cooloola Cove.

Australian ancestry made up 37.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.3% of responses.

9.5% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Managers accounted for 8.3% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.2%.

Health care and social assistance employed 11.2% of workers, and education and training employed 5.2%.

The labour-force participation rate was 29.3%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

11.3% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 12.6% worked part time.

Unemployment was 7.4%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

40.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

14.2% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.0% reported asthma, 21.8% arthritis and 9.1% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

8.4% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 1.1% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 53.1%.

Median household income was $808 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,172.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $300 per week.

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

Outright ownership was 59.4% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 14.8% in Cooloola Cove, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.