Point Lookout

11.1% of Point Lookout's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Greater Brisbane average.

200 family households lived in Point Lookout; 26.5% were couple families and 12.5% were one-parent families.

24.0% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Greater Brisbane average.

Point Lookout had 785 residents at the 2021 Census.

16.4% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

49.9% were 55 or older. That is about twice the Greater Brisbane rate.

Separate houses made up 73.0% of occupied private dwellings in Point Lookout.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 8.3% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 17.0% of occupied private dwellings.

49.5% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is about twice the Greater Brisbane rate.

25.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

25.3% rented their home. That is well below the Greater Brisbane average.

The average household in Point Lookout had 2.1 people.

One-person households made up 31.0% of occupied homes. That is well above the Greater Brisbane average.

Two-person households represented 45.3%, while 12.7% had four or more usual residents.

22.9% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Greater Brisbane average.

35.7% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Greater Brisbane average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 12.2% walked or cycled.

4.6% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Greater Brisbane average.

One-car households formed 41.0% of the total.

56.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

55.4% were at the same address five years earlier, while 44.6% reported a different address.

16.1% of residents were born outside Australia. That is well below the Greater Brisbane average.

83.2% of residents used only English at home.

3.9% used a language other than English at home.

0.0% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

16.1% of Point Lookout's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 83.9% was born in Australia.

0.5% of residents were born in China.

0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 83.7%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.4% of ancestry responses in Point Lookout.

Australian ancestry made up 31.2% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.6% of responses.

19.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Greater Brisbane average.

Managers accounted for 17.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.5%.

Health care and social assistance employed 7.9% of workers, and education and training employed 8.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 52.7%, compared with 64.5% across Greater Brisbane.

20.3% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 22.2% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.1%, compared with 5.5% across Greater Brisbane.

55.9% reported no selected long-term health condition.

6.6% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

5.2% reported asthma, 9.6% arthritis and 3.4% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

25.6% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Greater Brisbane average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 10.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.6%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 31.1%.

Median household income was $1,368 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,833.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $350 per week.

Working from home was 22.9% in Point Lookout, compared with 17.4% across Greater Brisbane.

Outright ownership was 49.5% locally and 26.7% across Greater Brisbane. That is about twice the Greater Brisbane rate.

Renting accounted for 25.3% in Point Lookout, against 36.2% across Greater Brisbane.