Mount Pleasant (Mackay - Qld)

19.0% of Mount Pleasant (Mackay - Qld)'s residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

1,280 family households lived in Mount Pleasant (Mackay - Qld); 38.7% were couple families and 14.0% were one-parent families.

36.6% of local families included children under 15. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

Mount Pleasant (Mackay - Qld) had 4,694 residents at the 2021 Census.

25.4% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

34.3% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 92.5% of occupied private dwellings in Mount Pleasant (Mackay - Qld).

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 6.5% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.8% of occupied private dwellings.

37.6% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

37.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

25.4% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Mount Pleasant (Mackay - Qld) had 2.4 people.

One-person households made up 27.6% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 36.9%, while 21.8% had four or more usual residents.

6.1% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

72.6% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

1.1% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.6% walked or cycled.

4.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

One-car households formed 37.7% of the total.

58.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

56.7% were at the same address five years earlier, while 43.3% reported a different address.

14.6% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

85.1% of residents used only English at home.

8.3% used a language other than English at home.

0.8% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.6% spoke Cantonese and 0.1% spoke Hindi.

14.6% of Mount Pleasant (Mackay - Qld)'s population was born outside Australia, while roughly 85.4% was born in Australia.

0.4% of residents were born in China.

0.8% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 88.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 38.9% of ancestry responses in Mount Pleasant (Mackay - Qld).

Australian ancestry made up 36.7% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 2.3% of responses.

20.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 9.4% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 12.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 15.9% of workers, and education and training employed 8.4%.

The labour-force participation rate was 59.5%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

37.4% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 16.5% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.7%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

57.6% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.6% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.4% reported asthma, 10.1% arthritis and 5.1% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

21.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 4.2% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.2%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 42.9%.

Median household income was $1,686 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,668.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $390 per week.

Working from home was 6.1% in Mount Pleasant (Mackay - Qld), compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 37.6% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 25.4% in Mount Pleasant (Mackay - Qld), against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.