Cooya Beach

15.5% of Cooya Beach's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

146 family households lived in Cooya Beach; 27.4% were couple families and 27.4% were one-parent families.

31.5% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Cooya Beach had 523 residents at the 2021 Census.

19.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

38.2% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 85.0% of occupied private dwellings in Cooya Beach.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 10.8% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 6.1% of occupied private dwellings.

31.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

37.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

31.8% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Cooya Beach had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 30.9% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 42.4%, while 14.3% had four or more usual residents.

9.7% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

73.7% 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 2.0% walked or cycled.

5.5% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

One-car households formed 35.2% of the total.

56.2% of households had two or more vehicles.

63.0% were at the same address five years earlier, while 37.0% reported a different address.

15.1% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

81.5% of residents used only English at home.

7.8% used a language other than English at home.

0.8% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

15.1% of Cooya Beach's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 84.9% 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 84.7%.

English ancestry accounted for 34.4% of ancestry responses in Cooya Beach.

Australian ancestry made up 32.7% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

14.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 6.9% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 7.7%.

Health care and social assistance employed 13.4% of workers, and education and training employed 8.5%.

The labour-force participation rate was 56.5%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

27.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 25.3% worked part time.

Unemployment was 1.6%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

56.8% reported no selected long-term health condition.

6.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

5.9% reported asthma, 9.4% arthritis and 4.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

13.8% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.8% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 43.5%.

Median household income was $1,154 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,325.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $265 per week.

Working from home was 9.7% in Cooya Beach, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 31.3% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 31.8% in Cooya Beach, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.