Carina real estate

Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses take a larger place in Carina than across the state: 34% of occupied homes, above 12% across QLD. Separate houses come to 55%, below the state's 75%, and flats or apartments to 11%, below 12% for QLD. The shares suggest attached housing is a larger part of everyday living here than it is statewide.

Three-bedroom homes account for 56% of homes in Carina, above the 37% across QLD. Homes with four or more bedrooms come to 24%, below the state's 39%, and those with two bedrooms or fewer to 18%, below 22%. At the 2021 Census, 5% of private dwellings in Carina were unoccupied on Census night, below the QLD figure of 9%.

A larger share of households is paying off a mortgage in Carina than across the state: 38%, above 34% across QLD. The median repayment is $2,000 a month, above the state's $1,733, and median household income is $2,064 a week, above $1,675 for QLD. Outright ownership comes to 26% of households, below 29% across the state.

Renting households make up 33% in Carina, the same as the 33% across QLD. Of them, 71% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 66% for the state. Median rent is $440 a week, above $365 across QLD. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all Carina households, below the state's 22%.

At the 2021 Census, 11,678 people lived in the suburb of Carina. Its median age is 37 years, below 38 across QLD, which suggests a younger population than the state's. An average household holds 2.4 people, below 2.5 for the state, which suggests fewer people sharing each home than across Queensland.

Of people aged five and over in Carina, 48% lived at the same address five years earlier, the same as the 48% across QLD. That share comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, and on this measure Carina and the state read alike.