Mount Ossa

18.8% of Mount Ossa's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

64 family households lived in Mount Ossa; 39.1% were couple families and 6.3% were one-parent families.

37.5% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Mount Ossa had 250 residents at the 2021 Census.

23.2% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

34.4% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 91.9% of occupied private dwellings in Mount Ossa.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 4.1% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

39.7% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

44.8% were buying their home with a mortgage.

15.5% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

The average household in Mount Ossa had 2.8 people.

One-person households made up 13.5% of occupied homes. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Two-person households represented 43.2%, while 27.0% had four or more usual residents.

16.1% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

50.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 5.9% walked or cycled.

0.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 17.6% of the total.

75.7% of households had two or more vehicles.

63.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 36.4% reported a different address.

5.6% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

82.0% 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 0.0% spoke Hindi.

5.6% of Mount Ossa's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 94.4% 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 82.0%.

English ancestry accounted for 33.2% of ancestry responses in Mount Ossa.

Australian ancestry made up 40.8% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

6.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Managers accounted for 18.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.2%.

Health care and social assistance employed 7.6% of workers, and education and training employed 8.5%.

The labour-force participation rate was 57.4%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

37.8% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 2.6%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

56.8% reported no selected long-term health condition.

2.4% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

6.0% reported asthma, 9.6% arthritis and 3.2% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

13.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 0.0% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 6.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 48.9%.

Median household income was $1,770 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,451.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $228 per week.

Working from home was 16.1% in Mount Ossa, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 39.7% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 15.5% in Mount Ossa, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.