Flats, apartments and homes of two bedrooms or fewer
Flats and apartments make up 20% of occupied homes in Norman Park, above 12% across QLD, which suggests a larger share of homes in apartment buildings than across the state. Separate houses come to 69%, below the state's 75%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses to 11%, below 12% for QLD. Of the three kinds of home counted, flats and apartments are the one above its state share.
Homes with two bedrooms or fewer account for 27% in Norman Park, above 22% across QLD. Three-bedroom homes are 34%, below the state's 37%, and homes with four or more bedrooms are 38%, below 39% for QLD. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings in Norman Park were unoccupied, below the 9% across the state.
Mortgage repayments and rent in Norman Park
The median mortgage repayment in Norman Park is $2,600 a month, above $1,733 across QLD, and 41% of households are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 34%. Owning outright is less common than across the state: 24% of households, below 29% for QLD. The median household income of $2,879 a week sits above the state's $1,675.
Median rent is $450 a week, above $365 across QLD. Worked out on this page from the two medians, that rent equals 16% of the median weekly income of all Norman Park households, renters or not, below 22% for the state. Renting households make up 35%, above 33% across QLD, and 79% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 66% for QLD.
A median age of 35 in the suburb of Norman Park
At the 2021 Census, 6,842 people lived in the suburb of Norman Park. Its median age of 35 years is below 38 across QLD, which suggests a younger population than the state's. The average household held 2.6 people, above 2.5 across QLD, suggesting more people sharing each home than across the state.
In Norman Park, 47% of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier, below 48% for QLD. Drawn from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, the figure suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.