Four or more bedrooms in Upper Coomera
65% of homes in Upper Coomera have four or more bedrooms, above 39% across QLD, and 4% have two bedrooms or fewer, below the state's 22%. Three-bedroom homes come to 29%, below 37% for QLD. The counts suggest a housing stock weighted toward larger homes, with small ones uncommon.
By kind of home, flats or apartments are fewer than 1% of occupied homes, below 12% across QLD. Separate houses account for 81%, above the state's 75%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 18%, above 12%. On Census night, 4% of private dwellings in Upper Coomera were unoccupied, below the 9% across Queensland.
Mortgages above the state, outright ownership below
Paying off a mortgage is the situation of 48% of households in Upper Coomera, above 34% across QLD, while 16% own their home outright, below the state's 29%. The median mortgage repayment is $1,939 a month, above $1,733 for QLD, and median household income is $1,991 a week, above $1,675 across the state.
Renting households come to 34%, above 33% across QLD, and 79% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 66% for the state. The median rent is $450 a week, above $365. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 23% of the median weekly income of all Upper Coomera households, above 22% across QLD.
A younger suburb in larger households
An average household in Upper Coomera holds 3.1 people, above 2.5 across QLD, which suggests more people under each roof than across the state. The median age is 33 years, below the QLD median of 38, pointing to a younger population. At the 2021 Census, 27,180 people lived in the suburb of Upper Coomera.
Of people aged five and over in Upper Coomera, 44% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 48% across QLD. This comes from a single 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016. That suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over in Upper Coomera at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across Queensland.