Townhouses and semis next to separate houses
Carrara's attached homes sit against a state where separate houses account for 75% of occupied homes; in Carrara that share is 52%, below QLD. Flats or apartments make up 9%, below 12% across QLD. The figures suggest townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses are a larger part of daily home life in Carrara than across Queensland.
47% of homes in Carrara have three bedrooms, above 37% across QLD. Homes with four or more bedrooms come to 28%, below the state's 39%, and those with two bedrooms or fewer to 23%, above 22% across QLD. On Census night, 5% of private dwellings in Carrara were unoccupied, below 9% across QLD.
Rent against income in Carrara
The median weekly rent in Carrara equals 29% of the median weekly income of all its households, renters or not, above 22% across QLD. This share is worked out on this page from two medians: rent of $450 a week, above $365 across QLD, and household income of $1,562 a week, below $1,675 across QLD. It is not a Census figure, and not what renters themselves pay.
28% of households in Carrara rent, below 33% across QLD, and 56% of those renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 66% statewide. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. Both figures sit below Queensland, so renting, and renting through an agent, are each less common here than across the state.
Ownership figures sit above the state. 39% of households are paying off a mortgage, above 34% across QLD, with a median repayment of $1,900 a month, above $1,733 statewide. Another 32% own their home outright, above 29% across QLD. Both shares point the same way, suggesting a higher share of households in Carrara hold their own home, with or without a loan, than across Queensland.
An older median age in Carrara
The median age in Carrara is 42 years, above 38 across QLD, which suggests an older population than the state's. The suburb of Carrara had 13,138 people at the 2021 Census, and an average household holds 2.4 people, below 2.5 across QLD, suggesting fewer people share each home than across the state.
Of people aged five and over in Carrara, 50% lived at the same address five years earlier, the answer to one 2021 question about where they lived in 2016. That is above 48% across QLD, and suggests a larger share of people aged five and over in Carrara at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.