Four or more bedrooms in Little Mountain
Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 52% of homes in Little Mountain, above the 39% across Queensland. Three-bedroom homes come to 28%, below the state's 37%, and homes with two bedrooms or fewer to 18%, below the 22% across Queensland. At the 2021 Census, 5% of private dwellings in Little Mountain were unoccupied, below the state's 9%, which suggests that a greater share of its homes were lived in than across the state.
Separate houses account for 85% of occupied homes in Little Mountain, above the 75% across Queensland. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 11%, below the state's 12%, and flats or apartments 1%, below the state's 12%. The figures suggest that detached houses make up a greater share of homes in Little Mountain than across Queensland.
Owned outright, mortgaged or rented in Little Mountain
Outright owners make up 37% of households in Little Mountain, above the 29% across Queensland. Another 39% are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 34%, and 18% rent, below the 33% across Queensland. The median mortgage repayment is $2,000 a month, above the state's $1,733, while median household income is $1,636 a week, below the $1,675 across Queensland.
Median rent in Little Mountain is $461 a week, above the $365 across Queensland. Taken as a share of the median weekly income of all Little Mountain households, renters or not, that median rent comes to 28% by this page's own working, above the 22% for Queensland. The share compares two medians and is not what renting households pay. Of those renting households, 63% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the state's 66%.
Age and household size
At the 2021 Census, 11,068 people lived in the suburb of Little Mountain, with a median age of 44 years, above the 38 across Queensland. That suggests an older population than the state's as a whole. An average household in Little Mountain holds 2.7 people, above the 2.5 across Queensland, suggesting more people to each home than across the state. One 2021 Census question asked people aged five and over where they lived in 2016. In Little Mountain, 51% gave the same address, above the 48% across Queensland.