Townhouses above the state, few flats
Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 27% of occupied homes in Griffin, above the 12% across QLD. Flats or apartments, at 1%, are below the 12% across QLD, and separate houses, at 72%, are below the 75% across QLD.
Small homes are uncommon: 5% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, against 22% across QLD. Four or more bedrooms accounts for 60%, above the 39% across QLD, and three bedrooms for 34%, below the 37% across QLD. On Census night, 4% of private dwellings in Griffin were unoccupied, below the 9% across QLD.
Renting above the QLD share
Owning outright is uncommon in Griffin, at 6% of households against 29% across QLD. Renting, at 54% of households, is above the 33% across QLD, and paying off a mortgage, at 39%, is above the 34% across QLD. Of renting households, 85% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 66% across QLD.
The median rent was $385 a week, above the $365 across QLD, and the median household income $2,013 a week, above the $1,675 across QLD. Set side by side on this page, that rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below the 22% across QLD. The median mortgage repayment was $1,941 a month, above the $1,733 across QLD.
Younger residents, a lower share at the same address
25% of people aged five and over in Griffin 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, and it puts Griffin below the state.
The median age was 29 years, below the 38 across QLD, which suggests younger residents than the state as a whole. An average household held 2.9 people, above the 2.5 across QLD, a sign of larger households than across the state. At the 2021 Census, 12,295 people lived in the suburb of Griffin.