Sunnybank Hills

18.2% of Sunnybank Hills's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

4,752 family households lived in Sunnybank Hills; 47.9% were couple families and 16.0% were one-parent families.

39.1% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

Sunnybank Hills had 18,085 residents at the 2021 Census.

30.9% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

28.4% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Greater Brisbane average.

Separate houses made up 84.6% of occupied private dwellings in Sunnybank Hills.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 13.6% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.3% of occupied private dwellings.

36.8% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Greater Brisbane average.

31.9% were buying their home with a mortgage.

31.3% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Greater Brisbane average.

The average household in Sunnybank Hills had 3.0 people.

One-person households made up 17.1% of occupied homes. That is well below the Greater Brisbane average.

Two-person households represented 29.1%, while 33.8% had four or more usual residents.

14.0% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Greater Brisbane average.

59.1% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Greater Brisbane average.

6.8% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.4% walked or cycled.

5.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

One-car households formed 33.6% of the total.

61.1% of households had two or more vehicles.

56.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 43.4% reported a different address.

52.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about twice the Greater Brisbane rate.

40.1% of residents used only English at home.

54.9% used a language other than English at home.

23.8% spoke Mandarin at home, 6.3% spoke Cantonese and 1.0% spoke Hindi.

52.5% of Sunnybank Hills's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 47.5% was born in Australia.

15.1% of residents were born in China.

4.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 71.7%.

English ancestry accounted for 16.8% of ancestry responses in Sunnybank Hills.

Australian ancestry made up 15.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 32.3% of responses.

23.9% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

Managers accounted for 10.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 12.5%.

Health care and social assistance employed 15.1% of workers, and education and training employed 8.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 57.9%, compared with 64.5% across Greater Brisbane.

30.5% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 18.8% worked part time.

Unemployment was 7.0%, compared with 5.5% across Greater Brisbane.

66.7% reported no selected long-term health condition.

6.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

5.9% reported asthma, 6.3% arthritis and 5.5% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

33.3% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Greater Brisbane average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 15.1% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 21.3%.

Median household income was $1,725 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,853.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $410 per week.

Working from home was 14.0% in Sunnybank Hills, compared with 17.4% across Greater Brisbane.

Outright ownership was 36.8% locally and 26.7% across Greater Brisbane. That is well above the Greater Brisbane average.

Renting accounted for 31.3% in Sunnybank Hills, against 36.2% across Greater Brisbane.