Gowrie Junction

24.3% of Gowrie Junction's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

637 family households lived in Gowrie Junction; 51.0% were couple families and 7.2% were one-parent families.

40.2% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Gowrie Junction had 2,242 residents at the 2021 Census.

24.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

26.0% were 55 or older. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 99.4% of occupied private dwellings in Gowrie Junction.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

32.6% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

59.9% were buying their home with a mortgage.

7.5% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

The average household in Gowrie Junction had 3.0 people.

One-person households made up 11.6% of occupied homes. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Two-person households represented 36.0%, while 37.7% had four or more usual residents.

7.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

73.4% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

0.3% used only a train, tram or bus, while 0.0% walked or cycled.

1.3% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 14.6% of the total.

83.3% of households had two or more vehicles.

68.2% were at the same address five years earlier, while 31.8% reported a different address.

6.2% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

94.1% of residents used only English at home.

2.6% used a language other than English at home.

0.3% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.2% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

6.2% of Gowrie Junction's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 93.8% 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 94.2%.

English ancestry accounted for 40.8% of ancestry responses in Gowrie Junction.

Australian ancestry made up 45.5% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.3% of responses.

16.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 9.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 15.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 15.0% of workers, and education and training employed 10.7%.

The labour-force participation rate was 72.6%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

44.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 22.3% worked part time.

Unemployment was 2.8%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

61.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.0% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.3% reported asthma, 8.2% arthritis and 4.4% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

18.2% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 4.0% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.8%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 51.1%.

Median household income was $2,164 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,733.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $400 per week.

Working from home was 7.8% in Gowrie Junction, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 32.6% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 7.5% in Gowrie Junction, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.