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Real Estate Scenic Rim

Scenic Rim real estate

Flats or apartments made up fewer than 1% of occupied homes in the Scenic Rim council area at the 2021 Census, against 12% across QLD.

  • House 92
  • Townhouse or terrace 6
  • Flat or apartment fewer than 1
  • Other or not stated 2
  • Owned outright 38
  • Mortgaged 37
  • Rented 21
  • Other or not stated 4
Homes in the Scenic Rim council area as a street of 100, from the census count of households by kind of home and tenure.
Median rent$315 a weekQLD $365
Median mortgage repayment$1,733 a monthQLD $1,733
Median household income$1,410 a weekQLD $1,675

Separate houses through the Scenic Rim council area

Attached homes are uncommon across the Scenic Rim council area. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses account for 6% of occupied homes, below the 12% for QLD, and flats or apartments at fewer than 1%. Separate houses, by contrast, make up 92%, above the state's 75%, which suggests a larger share of freestanding houses across the council area than across QLD.

By bedroom count, 41% of homes have three bedrooms, above 37% across QLD, and another 41% have four or more, above 39%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 17%, below the state's 22%. On Census night, 11% of private dwellings in the council area stood unoccupied, above the 9% recorded across Queensland.

Queensland, the same way: 75 houses, 12 flats, 33 rented. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.

Owning outright in the Scenic Rim

In the Scenic Rim council area, 38% of households own their home outright, above the 29% across QLD. A further 37% are paying off a mortgage, above 34%, with a median repayment of $1,733 a month, the same as the state. Renting households come to 21%, below 33%, and 57% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 66%.

Median rent at the 2021 Census was $315 a week, below the $365 across QLD, and median household income $1,410 a week, below the state's $1,675. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, the same as the 22% for QLD.

An older population, and more at the same address as in 2016

The Scenic Rim council area was home to 42,984 people at the 2021 Census. The median age there was 46 years, above the QLD median of 38, and points to an older population than Queensland as a whole. Households averaged 2.6 people, above the 2.5 across the state, suggesting more people sharing each home.

When the 2021 Census asked people aged five and over where they lived in 2016, 53% in the council area gave the same address. Across QLD the share was 48%, so the Scenic Rim council area sits above the state on this one question, which suggests a larger share of people aged five and over there at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across QLD.