Mission Beach

13.5% of Mission Beach's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

282 family households lived in Mission Beach; 27.3% were couple families and 11.0% were one-parent families.

26.2% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Mission Beach had 1,014 residents at the 2021 Census.

23.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

39.9% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 82.4% of occupied private dwellings in Mission Beach.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 6.2% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 6.9% of occupied private dwellings.

39.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

23.8% were buying their home with a mortgage.

37.0% rented their home. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Mission Beach had 2.1 people.

One-person households made up 29.6% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 45.2%, while 13.5% had four or more usual residents.

9.4% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

63.7% drove a car as their only travel method. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 6.1% walked or cycled.

1.9% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 41.9% of the total.

56.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

43.1% were at the same address five years earlier, while 56.9% reported a different address.

17.9% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

85.0% of residents used only English at home.

4.5% used a language other than English at home.

0.0% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.7% spoke Hindi.

17.9% of Mission Beach's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 82.1% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.5% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 83.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 40.9% of ancestry responses in Mission Beach.

Australian ancestry made up 35.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.4% of responses.

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

Managers accounted for 14.3% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 9.2%.

Health care and social assistance employed 8.6% of workers, and education and training employed 8.4%.

The labour-force participation rate was 57.1%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

30.4% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 19.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.0%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

58.7% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

5.7% reported asthma, 10.4% arthritis and 4.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.3% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.8%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 40.6%.

Median household income was $1,326 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,341.

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

Working from home was 9.4% in Mission Beach, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 39.3% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 37.0% in Mission Beach, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.