Four or more bedrooms in 81% of Flagstone homes
Bedroom counts in Flagstone run high. 81% of homes have four or more bedrooms, above the 39% across Queensland, and 16% have three bedrooms, below the state's 37%. At the small end, 1% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, below 22% for Queensland. Read together, these figures suggest a larger share of homes with four or more bedrooms than across Queensland.
Separate houses make up 98% of occupied homes, above 75% across Queensland. Flats or apartments are fewer than 1% of occupied homes, below the state's 12%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are 1%, below 12% for Queensland, which suggests few people here live in apartment buildings or shared-wall homes. On Census night, 4% of private dwellings in Flagstone were unoccupied, below 9% across the state.
Paying off a home in Flagstone
In Flagstone, 63% of households are paying off a mortgage, above 34% across Queensland. The median mortgage repayment is $1,820 a month, above $1,733 for the state. Outright ownership is less common, at 12% of households against Queensland's 29%, and 23% of households rent, below 33% statewide. Median household income is $2,073 a week, above the $1,675 recorded across Queensland.
Agents feature among renting households here, with 88% renting from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 66% across Queensland. Median rent is $395 a week, above $365 for the state. Worked out on this page from two medians, the median weekly rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all Flagstone households, renters or not, below the 22% figure for Queensland.
A younger suburb with fuller households
The median age in Flagstone is 30 years, below 38 across Queensland, which suggests a younger population than the state as a whole. Households hold more people as well, with 3.3 people in an average household against 2.5 for Queensland. Altogether, 7,087 people lived in the suburb of Flagstone at the 2021 Census, the population behind each of these figures.
One 2021 question asked where each person lived in 2016. In Flagstone, 44% of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier, below 48% across Queensland. That lower share suggests a smaller proportion of people here were living at the address they had in 2016 than across the state, though it says nothing about anyone's moves in between.