Three bedrooms and attached homes in Eagleby
At the 2021 Census, 55% of homes had three bedrooms, above the 37% across QLD, while 23% had two bedrooms or fewer, above the state's 22%. Homes with four or more bedrooms came to 20%, below 39% for QLD, and the figures together suggest a suburb of mid-sized homes rather than large ones.
Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 16% of occupied homes, above the 12% for QLD. Flats or apartments sit at 8%, below 12%, and separate houses at 76%, above 75%. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings in Eagleby were unoccupied, below the 9% across the state, suggesting a smaller share of dwellings standing empty than across QLD.
Renting in Eagleby, and the share through agents
Renting households make up 45% of households in Eagleby, above the 33% across QLD, and 70% of those renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 66%. Some 23% of households are paying off a mortgage, below 34% for QLD, and 28% own their home outright, below 29%.
Median rent was $320 a week at the 2021 Census, below the $365 across QLD, and median household income was $1,083 a week, below $1,675. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 30% of the median weekly income of all Eagleby households, renters or not, above 22% for the state. The median mortgage repayment was $1,300 a month, below the QLD figure of $1,733.
Eagleby's people, by age and household
The suburb of Eagleby had 13,594 people living in it at the 2021 Census. The median age was 37 years, below the QLD median of 38, which suggests a younger population than the state as a whole. Households held 2.4 people on average, below the 2.5 across QLD, so the figures point to fewer people sharing each home.
On the one 2021 question about where people lived in 2016, 48% of people aged five and over in Eagleby gave the same address as in 2021. That is the same as the 48% across QLD, so by this measure Eagleby looks like the state.