Tara

17.5% of Tara's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

453 family households lived in Tara; 27.6% were couple families and 22.1% were one-parent families.

34.2% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Tara had 1,980 residents at the 2021 Census.

19.3% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

40.3% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 93.6% of occupied private dwellings in Tara.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 1.7% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.4% of occupied private dwellings.

57.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

17.1% were buying their home with a mortgage.

25.6% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

The average household in Tara had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 35.3% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 37.0%, while 15.2% had four or more usual residents.

11.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

59.4% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

0.5% used only a train, tram or bus, while 12.6% walked or cycled.

4.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

One-car households formed 39.1% of the total.

56.0% of households had two or more vehicles.

59.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 40.4% reported a different address.

9.2% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

86.5% of residents used only English at home.

3.7% used a language other than English at home.

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

9.2% of Tara's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 90.8% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.2% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 86.8%.

English ancestry accounted for 39.2% of ancestry responses in Tara.

Australian ancestry made up 42.5% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.3% of responses.

12.1% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 16.2% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 8.9%.

Health care and social assistance employed 11.0% of workers, and education and training employed 14.6%.

The labour-force participation rate was 41.1%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

19.3% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 12.5% worked part time.

Unemployment was 16.8%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

42.3% reported no selected long-term health condition.

15.2% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

13.3% reported asthma, 16.2% arthritis and 7.7% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

9.4% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 1.6% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.3%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 45.6%.

Median household income was $867 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $758.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $180 per week.

Working from home was 11.2% in Tara, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 57.3% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 25.6% in Tara, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.