Thornlands

21.5% of Thornlands's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

5,548 family households lived in Thornlands; 50.5% were couple families and 14.2% were one-parent families.

42.0% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

Thornlands had 19,263 residents at the 2021 Census.

25.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

25.2% were 55 or older. That is almost exactly typical for Greater Brisbane.

Separate houses made up 87.3% of occupied private dwellings in Thornlands.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 11.6% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.0% of occupied private dwellings.

25.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

48.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

26.7% rented their home. That is well below the Greater Brisbane average.

The average household in Thornlands had 2.9 people.

One-person households made up 13.9% of occupied homes. That is well below the Greater Brisbane average.

Two-person households represented 32.7%, while 34.2% had four or more usual residents.

15.3% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

64.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Greater Brisbane average.

1.3% used only a train, tram or bus, while 0.8% walked or cycled.

2.2% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Greater Brisbane rate.

One-car households formed 23.4% of the total.

74.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

46.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 53.1% reported a different address.

25.6% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

88.3% of residents used only English at home.

8.9% used a language other than English at home.

0.6% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.2% spoke Hindi.

25.6% of Thornlands's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 74.4% was born in Australia.

0.4% of residents were born in China.

1.1% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 88.5%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.9% of ancestry responses in Thornlands.

Australian ancestry made up 35.8% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.5% of responses.

19.1% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Greater Brisbane average.

Managers accounted for 13.7% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 15.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 15.3% of workers, and education and training employed 8.5%.

The labour-force participation rate was 70.3%, compared with 64.5% across Greater Brisbane.

40.7% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.9% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.7%, compared with 5.5% across Greater Brisbane.

62.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

8.9% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.7% reported asthma, 7.5% arthritis and 3.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

22.4% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Greater Brisbane average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.7% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 19.8%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 40.8%.

Median household income was $2,218 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,167.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $470 per week.

Working from home was 15.3% in Thornlands, compared with 17.4% across Greater Brisbane.

Outright ownership was 25.3% locally and 26.7% across Greater Brisbane. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

Renting accounted for 26.7% in Thornlands, against 36.2% across Greater Brisbane.