Surfers Paradise

7.8% of Surfers Paradise's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

5,891 family households lived in Surfers Paradise; 21.4% were couple families and 13.7% were one-parent families.

20.8% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Surfers Paradise had 26,412 residents at the 2021 Census.

34.5% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

34.7% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 10.0% of occupied private dwellings in Surfers Paradise.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 7.4% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 81.2% of occupied private dwellings.

27.8% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

18.9% were buying their home with a mortgage.

53.2% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Surfers Paradise had 1.9 people.

One-person households made up 39.9% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 40.7%, while 8.8% had four or more usual residents.

13.9% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

49.4% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

5.7% used only a train, tram or bus, while 9.8% walked or cycled.

13.3% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about twice the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 54.0% of the total.

32.6% of households had two or more vehicles.

33.3% were at the same address five years earlier, while 66.7% reported a different address.

39.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about twice the Rest of Qld rate.

62.2% of residents used only English at home.

24.6% used a language other than English at home.

1.8% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.5% spoke Cantonese and 0.7% spoke Hindi.

39.7% of Surfers Paradise's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 60.3% was born in Australia.

1.3% of residents were born in China.

3.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 63.0%.

English ancestry accounted for 30.5% of ancestry responses in Surfers Paradise.

Australian ancestry made up 19.9% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 3.0% of responses.

18.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

Managers accounted for 13.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 11.6% of workers, and education and training employed 5.2%.

The labour-force participation rate was 55.7%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

24.5% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.6% worked part time.

Unemployment was 7.1%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

58.3% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

5.8% reported asthma, 7.6% arthritis and 3.1% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

24.8% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 7.9% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 16.6%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 24.3%.

Median household income was $1,323 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,606.

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

Working from home was 13.9% in Surfers Paradise, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 27.8% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 53.2% in Surfers Paradise, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.