Bethania's attached homes and three-bedroom houses
Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 25% of occupied homes in Bethania, above the 12% across QLD. Flats and apartments come to fewer than 1%, below 12% statewide. Separate houses sit at 75%, the same as QLD.
Three bedrooms is the common count, describing 49% of homes, above 37% across QLD, and 32% have two bedrooms or fewer, above the state's 22%. Four or more bedrooms is rarer, at 17% against 39% statewide. On Census night 6% of private dwellings in Bethania were unoccupied, below the 9% across QLD.
Rent, repayments and outright owners in Bethania
Set the median weekly rent beside the median household income and rent comes to 32% of that income in Bethania, above the 22% across QLD. That share is worked out on this page from two medians, and it covers all households rather than renters alone. Median household income is $1,074 a week, below the $1,675 statewide, while median rent is $340 a week, below the QLD figure of $365.
Outright ownership stands out: 37% of households own their home outright, above 29% across QLD. Paying off a mortgage is less common, at 25% against 34%, and the median repayment is $1,500 a month, below the state's $1,733. Renting accounts for 33% of households, the same as QLD, and 66% of renting households rent through a real estate agent, matching the state.
An older suburb in smaller households
The suburb of Bethania was home to 6,333 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age of 48 years is above the 38 across QLD, which suggests an older population than the state as a whole. Households are on the small side too, with 2.2 people in an average household against 2.5 statewide.
One 2021 question asked where people lived in 2016. In Bethania, 46% of people aged five and over gave the same address as five years earlier, below the 48% across QLD.