Bedrooms and separate houses in Palmview
Palmview's homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 3%, below 22% across Queensland, while those with four or more bedrooms reach 63%, above the state's 39%. Three-bedroom homes make up 33%, below 37% statewide. Separate houses account for 93% of occupied homes in Palmview, above 75% across the state. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses come to 6%, below the state's 12%, and flats or apartments to 1%, below 12%. On Census night 5% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the Queensland figure of 9%.
Mortgages, rent and income in Palmview
In Palmview, 62% of households are paying off a mortgage, above 34% across Queensland, while outright owners account for 12%, below the state's 29%. Renting households come to 24%, below 33% statewide, and 89% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the Queensland figure of 66%.
The median mortgage repayment is $2,000 a month, above $1,733 across the state. Median household income stands at $2,306 a week, above Queensland's $1,675, and median rent at $510 a week, above $365. From those two medians, worked out on this page, the median weekly rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, the same as across Queensland.
Same-address figures and median age
Of people aged five and over in Palmview, 11% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 48% across Queensland. That figure answers one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016. The median age in Palmview was 29 years, below 38 across Queensland. An average household held 3 people, above the state figure of 2.5. At the 2021 Census, 5,236 people lived in the suburb of Palmview.