Rainbow Beach

11.6% of Rainbow Beach's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

310 family households lived in Rainbow Beach; 21.9% were couple families and 12.6% were one-parent families.

21.9% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Rainbow Beach had 1,220 residents at the 2021 Census.

16.5% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

51.5% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 70.9% of occupied private dwellings in Rainbow Beach.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 16.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 8.5% of occupied private dwellings.

46.9% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

21.4% were buying their home with a mortgage.

31.7% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Rainbow Beach had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 34.7% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 46.5%, while 8.8% had four or more usual residents.

14.6% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

48.7% 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 11.3% walked or cycled.

5.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

One-car households formed 39.5% of the total.

56.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

51.1% were at the same address five years earlier, while 48.9% reported a different address.

14.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

85.7% of residents used only English at home.

3.3% used a language other than English at home.

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

14.5% of Rainbow Beach's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 85.5% 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 83.9%.

English ancestry accounted for 39.6% of ancestry responses in Rainbow Beach.

Australian ancestry made up 36.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

14.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 19.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 7.8%.

Health care and social assistance employed 5.4% of workers, and education and training employed 7.4%.

The labour-force participation rate was 45.7%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

21.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.9% worked part time.

Unemployment was 2.2%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

52.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

8.4% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

6.1% reported asthma, 12.7% arthritis and 5.2% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.9% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.8% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 13.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 42.6%.

Median household income was $972 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,605.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $280 per week.

Working from home was 14.6% in Rainbow Beach, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 46.9% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 31.7% in Rainbow Beach, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.