Hay Point

17.5% of Hay Point's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

365 family households lived in Hay Point; 39.5% were couple families and 11.5% were one-parent families.

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

Hay Point had 1,306 residents at the 2021 Census.

25.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

33.2% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 95.0% of occupied private dwellings in Hay Point.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 2.4% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.9% of occupied private dwellings.

32.8% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

43.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

24.2% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Hay Point had 2.5 people.

One-person households made up 20.3% of occupied homes. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 42.2%, while 20.3% had four or more usual residents.

5.5% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

70.6% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

1.5% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.4% walked or cycled.

1.6% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 29.6% of the total.

69.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

61.5% were at the same address five years earlier, while 38.5% reported a different address.

9.1% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

85.1% of residents used only English at home.

2.8% used a language other than English at home.

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

9.1% of Hay Point's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 90.9% 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 83.5%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.0% of ancestry responses in Hay Point.

Australian ancestry made up 37.7% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.3% of responses.

11.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 5.7% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.7%.

Health care and social assistance employed 7.2% of workers, and education and training employed 4.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 56.9%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

38.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 11.6% worked part time.

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

56.0% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.7% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

6.9% reported asthma, 9.4% arthritis and 5.2% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

7.6% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 1.5% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 9.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 51.7%.

Median household income was $1,983 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,600.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $350 per week.

Working from home was 5.5% in Hay Point, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 32.8% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 24.2% in Hay Point, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.