Mount Morgan

14.6% of Mount Morgan's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

446 family households lived in Mount Morgan; 25.3% were couple families and 25.6% were one-parent families.

29.1% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Mount Morgan had 2,018 residents at the 2021 Census.

16.6% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

47.2% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 97.2% of occupied private dwellings in Mount Morgan.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 1.2% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.1% of occupied private dwellings.

51.9% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

21.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

26.8% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Mount Morgan had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 43.2% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 34.1%, while 11.5% had four or more usual residents.

3.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

67.5% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

0.8% used only a train, tram or bus, while 5.2% walked or cycled.

11.7% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about twice the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 47.1% of the total.

41.2% of households had two or more vehicles.

62.2% were at the same address five years earlier, while 37.8% reported a different address.

7.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

84.6% of residents used only English at home.

1.6% used a language other than English at home.

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

7.7% of Mount Morgan's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 92.3% 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 84.9%.

English ancestry accounted for 39.1% of ancestry responses in Mount Morgan.

Australian ancestry made up 39.0% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.3% of responses.

10.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 6.5% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 9.2%.

Health care and social assistance employed 20.6% of workers, and education and training employed 7.3%.

The labour-force participation rate was 32.9%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

14.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 9.9% worked part time.

Unemployment was 15.8%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

31.9% reported no selected long-term health condition.

16.3% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

16.7% reported asthma, 19.3% arthritis and 11.5% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

7.8% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 1.1% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 9.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 43.7%.

Median household income was $779 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $758.

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

Working from home was 3.8% in Mount Morgan, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 51.9% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 26.8% in Mount Morgan, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.