Welcome Creek

18.3% of Welcome Creek's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

127 family households lived in Welcome Creek; 41.7% were couple families and 14.2% were one-parent families.

31.5% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Welcome Creek had 421 residents at the 2021 Census.

18.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

34.0% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 95.4% of occupied private dwellings in Welcome Creek.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

46.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

36.7% were buying their home with a mortgage.

17.0% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

The average household in Welcome Creek had 2.7 people.

One-person households made up 15.9% of occupied homes. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

Two-person households represented 37.9%, while 23.4% had four or more usual residents.

11.6% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

71.5% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 2.4% walked or cycled.

0.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 23.6% of the total.

75.7% of households had two or more vehicles.

66.1% were at the same address five years earlier, while 33.9% reported a different address.

10.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is well below the Rest of Qld average.

91.4% of residents used only English at home.

3.8% used a language other than English at home.

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

10.5% of Welcome Creek's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 89.5% 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 90.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.0% of ancestry responses in Welcome Creek.

Australian ancestry made up 42.0% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

13.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 22.2% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 12.1%.

Health care and social assistance employed 14.5% of workers, and education and training employed 7.7%.

The labour-force participation rate was 62.4%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

37.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 18.9% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.1%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

55.8% reported no selected long-term health condition.

9.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.6% reported asthma, 14.3% arthritis and 5.9% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 51.6%.

Median household income was $1,781 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,517.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $270 per week.

Working from home was 11.6% in Welcome Creek, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 46.3% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is well above the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 17.0% in Welcome Creek, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.