Miles

20.2% of Miles's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

446 family households lived in Miles; 35.0% were couple families and 18.8% were one-parent families.

38.1% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Miles had 1,874 residents at the 2021 Census.

23.5% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

31.2% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 78.6% of occupied private dwellings in Miles.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 16.5% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.9% of occupied private dwellings.

30.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

19.9% were buying their home with a mortgage.

50.1% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Miles had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 34.2% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 34.2%, while 18.3% had four or more usual residents.

6.7% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

65.9% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

1.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 8.1% walked or cycled.

5.2% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

One-car households formed 41.9% of the total.

53.0% of households had two or more vehicles.

45.4% were at the same address five years earlier, while 54.6% reported a different address.

9.9% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

80.8% of residents used only English at home.

5.6% used a language other than English at home.

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

9.9% of Miles's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 90.1% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

1.2% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 81.9%.

English ancestry accounted for 34.0% of ancestry responses in Miles.

Australian ancestry made up 42.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.6% of responses.

11.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 10.5% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 9.8%.

Health care and social assistance employed 10.5% of workers, and education and training employed 8.3%.

The labour-force participation rate was 55.2%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

34.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.5% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.1%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

49.6% reported no selected long-term health condition.

10.3% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.9% reported asthma, 10.2% arthritis and 6.1% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.6% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 0.9% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 11.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 42.7%.

Median household income was $1,263 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,020.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $200 per week.

Working from home was 6.7% in Miles, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 30.0% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 50.1% in Miles, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.