Separate houses and three-bedroom homes in Inala
Separate houses account for 89% of occupied homes in Inala, above 75% across QLD. Flats or apartments come to 3%, below the state's 12%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses to 6%, below 12% for QLD. These shares suggest a smaller share of homes in apartment buildings than across the state, and a larger share that are freestanding houses.
In bedroom terms, 60% of homes in Inala have three bedrooms, above 37% across QLD. Four or more bedrooms come to 17%, below the state's 39%, and two bedrooms or fewer to 19%, below 22%. On Census night in 2021, 5% of private dwellings in Inala were unoccupied, below the 9% recorded across Queensland.
A renting suburb, with lower costs and incomes
Renting is the position of 55% of households in Inala, above 33% across QLD. Of those renting households, 27% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 66% for the state; the rest rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. The median rent is $250 a week, below $365 across QLD.
Median household income in Inala is $998 a week, below $1,675 for the state. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 25% of that income, above 22% across QLD. Paying off a mortgage applies to 21% of households, below 34%, with a median repayment of $1,300 a month, below $1,733. Outright owners come to 20%, below 29% across the state.
Younger people, larger households, the same address
The suburb of Inala counted 15,273 people at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 2.9 people, above the 2.5 across QLD, and the median age is 33 years, below the state's 38. The first suggests more people sharing each home than across Queensland; the second, a younger population than the state's.
Of people aged five and over in Inala, 57% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 48% across QLD. The figure rests on one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, rather than on two separate counts. A share above the state like this suggests a larger share of people aged five and over in Inala at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across QLD.