Clifton's separate houses and three-bedroom homes
Separate houses made up 93% of occupied homes in the town of Clifton at the 2021 Census, above the Queensland figure of 75%. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses made up 5%, below the state's 12%, and flats or apartments 2%, below 12% statewide.
Three bedrooms described 51% of homes, above the 37% across Queensland. Four or more bedrooms came to 23%, below the state's 39%, and two bedrooms or fewer to 23%, above the state's 22%. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings in Clifton were unoccupied, below the Queensland figure of 9%.
Income, rent and home loans in Clifton
Median household income in Clifton was $858 a week at the 2021 Census, below the Queensland median of $1,675. The median mortgage repayment was $1,006 a month, below the state's $1,733, and the median rent was $245 a week, below Queensland's $365. Set against the median income of all households, renters or not, that rent equals 29%, worked out on this page from the two medians, above the state comparison of 22%.
Outright owners made up 38% of households, above the 29% across Queensland, while 28% were paying off a mortgage, below the state's 34%. Renting households came to 30%, below 33% statewide, and 66% of them rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, the same as across Queensland.
A median age of 49 in the town of Clifton
The median age in Clifton was 49 years at the 2021 Census, above the Queensland median of 38. The town of Clifton was home to 1,299 people, and households averaged 2.2 people, below the state's 2.5. When the 2021 Census asked where people lived in 2016, 53% of people aged five and over in Clifton gave the same address as in 2021, above the 48% across Queensland.