Moranbah real estate

The 30% of private dwellings standing unoccupied in Moranbah on Census night is above the 9% for Queensland. Among occupied homes, separate houses make up 82%, above 75% across the state, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses 17%, above 12%. Flats or apartments come to 1%, below the state's 12%, suggesting that apartment buildings play a smaller part in Moranbah's housing than across Queensland.

Three bedrooms is the count for 45% of homes in Moranbah, above 37% across Queensland. Homes with four or more bedrooms account for 42%, above the state's 39%, while those with two bedrooms or fewer account for 10%, below 22%.

68% of households in Moranbah rent, above 33% across Queensland, and the median rent is $111 a week, below the state's $365. Median household income is $3,079 a week, above $1,675 for Queensland. Divide the one median by the other and the rent equals 4% of the income of all households, renters or not, against 22% across the state; the calculation is this page's own and does not show what renters pay.

Of Moranbah's renting households, 37% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 66% across Queensland, with the others renting from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. 8% of households own outright, below the state's 29%, and 19% are paying off a mortgage, below 34%. The median repayment is $1,300 a month, below $1,733 across Queensland.

29% of people aged five and over in Moranbah lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 48% across Queensland. That share is drawn from one 2021 question about each person's address in 2016.

The suburb of Moranbah had 9,425 people living in it at the 2021 Census. The median age was 31 years, below 38 across Queensland, which suggests a younger population than the state's. An average household held 2.8 people, above the state's 2.5, suggesting households with more people in them, on average, than across Queensland.