Townhouses and terraces alongside separate houses
Separate houses accounted for 52% of occupied homes in Paradise Point, below the 75% across Queensland. Flats or apartments came to 15%, above the state's 12%. Read with the 33% of townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses, the figures suggest a larger share of people living in attached homes or apartment buildings than across the state.
On Census night, 13% of private dwellings in Paradise Point were unoccupied, above the 9% across Queensland. As for bedrooms, 28% of homes had two bedrooms or fewer, above the state's 22%; 34% had three bedrooms, below 37%; and 37% had four or more bedrooms, below Queensland's 39%.
Outright ownership in Paradise Point
Owning outright was the arrangement for 43% of Paradise Point households, above the 29% across Queensland. Paying off a mortgage covered 29%, below the state's 34%, and renting 25%, below 33%. The median mortgage repayment was $2,253 a month, above Queensland's $1,733, and the median household income was $1,688 a week, above the state's $1,675.
Median rent in Paradise Point was $450 a week, against $365 across Queensland. Of renting households, 70% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 66%, with the others renting from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord.
This page divides the median weekly rent by the median weekly income of all households in the suburb, whether they rent or not, and gets 27%. Queensland's result on the same basis is 22%. The ratio is not a Census figure, and it is not the share of income that renting households themselves pay.
A median age of 53 years
The median age in Paradise Point was 53 years at the 2021 Census, above the 38 across Queensland, which suggests an older resident population than the state's. The suburb of Paradise Point was home to 7,062 people, and its households averaged 2.2 people, below the state's 2.5, suggesting fewer people per household on average. Among residents aged five and over, 46% reported living at the same address in 2016 as in 2021, below the 48% across Queensland.