Hermit Park

17.4% of Hermit Park's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

872 family households lived in Hermit Park; 34.2% were couple families and 23.3% were one-parent families.

39.9% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Hermit Park had 3,512 residents at the 2021 Census.

29.5% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

25.8% were 55 or older. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 54.9% of occupied private dwellings in Hermit Park.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 35.6% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 9.5% of occupied private dwellings.

21.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

29.6% were buying their home with a mortgage.

49.3% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Hermit Park had 2.1 people.

One-person households made up 37.6% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 33.0%, while 15.2% had four or more usual residents.

5.3% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

68.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

1.7% used only a train, tram or bus, while 3.9% walked or cycled.

10.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about twice the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 44.2% of the total.

44.8% of households had two or more vehicles.

49.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 50.1% reported a different address.

15.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

81.7% of residents used only English at home.

9.3% used a language other than English at home.

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

15.5% of Hermit Park's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 84.5% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

1.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 84.6%.

English ancestry accounted for 37.3% of ancestry responses in Hermit Park.

Australian ancestry made up 33.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.7% of responses.

23.2% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 9.9% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.5%.

Health care and social assistance employed 18.8% of workers, and education and training employed 9.1%.

The labour-force participation rate was 65.2%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

38.5% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 19.5% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.2%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

55.4% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.6% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.8% reported asthma, 7.3% arthritis and 3.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

22.2% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 7.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.1%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 34.3%.

Median household income was $1,382 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,406.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $255 per week.

Working from home was 5.3% in Hermit Park, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 21.1% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 49.3% in Hermit Park, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.