Clinton's homes: separate houses, three bedrooms and up
Separate houses hold 93% of Clinton's occupied homes, above the Queensland figure of 75%. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses come to 6%, below 12% across QLD, and flats or apartments to 1%, below the state's 12%. The figures suggest a smaller share of homes in apartment buildings in Clinton than across Queensland.
Bedroom counts sit at the larger end. In Clinton, 47% of homes have four or more bedrooms (39% across QLD) and 45% have three (37% across QLD), both above the state. Two bedrooms or fewer describes 7% of homes, below 22% across Queensland. On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in Clinton were unoccupied, above the state's 9%.
Rent at $270 a week, and mortgages above the state
Rent and income pull in opposite directions in Clinton. The median rent is $270 a week, below $365 across QLD, while the median household income, $1,701 a week, sits above the state's $1,675. Taking the two medians together, as this page does, the median weekly rent equals 16% of the median weekly income of all Clinton households, renters or not, below the QLD share of 22%.
Of Clinton households, 40% are paying off a mortgage, above 34% across QLD, with a median repayment of $1,517 a month, below the state's $1,733. Another 24% own their home outright, below 29% across Queensland.
Renting households make up 35% of the total, above 33% across QLD. Of those, 66% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, the same as the Queensland figure of 66%. The rest rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom.
Younger than the state, and more at the same address
At the 2021 Census, 6,170 people lived in the suburb of Clinton. The median age there is 34 years, below 38 across QLD, suggesting a younger population than the state's. An average household holds 2.7 people, above the Queensland average of 2.5.
Asked in 2021 where they had lived in 2016, 52% of people aged five and over in Clinton named the same address. Across Queensland the figure is 48%, so Clinton sits above. On that one measure, a larger share of Clinton's people gave the same address for both years than across Queensland.