Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached in 37% of homes
Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses make up 37% of occupied homes in Dakabin, above the QLD figure of 12%, and separate houses 58%, below 75% statewide. There are no flats or apartments among Dakabin's occupied homes, below the 12% across QLD. On Census night, 4% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the state figure of 9%. 43% of homes in Dakabin have four or more bedrooms, above the 39% across QLD, and 41% have three bedrooms, above the state figure of 37%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 14%, below 22% statewide.
Renting, owning and mortgages in Dakabin
61% of households in Dakabin rent, above the 33% across QLD, and 75% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state figure of 66%. Median rent is $360 a week, below $365 statewide. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all Dakabin households, renters or not, below the QLD figure of 22%.
In Dakabin, 11% of households own their home outright, below 29% across QLD, and 26% are paying off a mortgage, below the state figure of 34%. The median mortgage repayment is $1,800 a month, above the $1,733 across QLD. Median household income is $1,689 a week, above the QLD median of $1,675.
Age, household size and where people lived in 2016
The median age in Dakabin is 30 years, below the 38 across QLD. There are 2.6 people in an average household in Dakabin, above the 2.5 across QLD. At the 2021 Census, 5,275 people lived in the suburb of Dakabin. 33% of people aged five and over in Dakabin lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 48% across QLD. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.