Worongary

19.4% of Worongary's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

1,696 family households lived in Worongary; 50.1% were couple families and 15.6% were one-parent families.

38.5% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Worongary had 6,021 residents at the 2021 Census.

24.2% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

27.9% were 55 or older. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Separate houses made up 98.2% of occupied private dwellings in Worongary.

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

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.6% of occupied private dwellings.

30.8% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

55.8% were buying their home with a mortgage.

13.4% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

The average household in Worongary had 3.1 people.

One-person households made up 11.4% of occupied homes. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

Two-person households represented 29.9%, while 37.3% had four or more usual residents.

13.3% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

66.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

0.7% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.1% walked or cycled.

1.3% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of Qld rate.

One-car households formed 16.0% of the total.

82.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

66.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 33.2% reported a different address.

21.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat above the Rest of Qld average.

88.8% of residents used only English at home.

6.3% used a language other than English at home.

0.7% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.2% spoke Cantonese and 0.3% spoke Hindi.

21.5% of Worongary's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 78.5% was born in Australia.

0.5% of residents were born in China.

0.2% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 87.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.8% of ancestry responses in Worongary.

Australian ancestry made up 36.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.6% of responses.

17.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of Qld average.

Managers accounted for 13.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 13.2%.

Health care and social assistance employed 12.4% of workers, and education and training employed 9.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 67.4%, compared with 59.1% across Rest of Qld.

34.6% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 23.3% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.5%, compared with 5.2% across Rest of Qld.

62.0% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.8% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.5% reported asthma, 7.9% arthritis and 3.4% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

20.2% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Qld.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 4.6% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 17.2%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 42.1%.

Median household income was $2,160 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,153.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $450 per week.

Working from home was 13.3% in Worongary, compared with 10.6% across Rest of Qld.

Outright ownership was 30.8% locally and 33.4% across Rest of Qld. That is somewhat below the Rest of Qld average.

Renting accounted for 13.4% in Worongary, against 32.4% across Rest of Qld.