Separate houses and three-bedroom homes
Separate houses account for 96% of occupied homes in Crestmead, above the 75% across QLD. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses come to 3% (12% across QLD), and flats or apartments to fewer than 1%, both below the state. The figures suggest that living in an apartment building or an attached home is uncommon in Crestmead when set against Queensland as a whole.
In Crestmead, 51% of homes have three bedrooms, above the 37% across QLD, and 42% have four or more, above the state's 39%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 5%, below the 22% across QLD. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings in Crestmead were unoccupied, below the 9% across QLD.
Renters, agents and outright owners in Crestmead
Renting is above the state here. 45% of households in Crestmead rent, against 33% across QLD, and 76% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 66% across QLD. Median rent is $350 a week, below the $365 across QLD. Median household income is $1,468 a week, below the state's $1,675.
Worked out on this page from those two medians, Crestmead's median weekly rent equals 24% of the median weekly income of all its households, above the 22% across QLD; that share is not what any renter pays. 15% of households own their home outright, below the 29% across QLD, while 37% are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 34%. The median mortgage repayment is $1,431 a month, below the $1,733 across QLD.
A median age of 29
The median age in Crestmead is 29 years, below the 38 across QLD, which suggests a younger population than the state's. 12,271 people lived in the suburb of Crestmead at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 3.1 people, above the 2.5 across QLD, so homes here tend to hold more people than across Queensland.
51% of people aged five and over in Crestmead lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 48% across QLD. The figure rests on one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016. It suggests a larger share of people aged five and over in Crestmead at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.