St George real estate

At the 2021 Census, 2% of occupied homes in the town of St George were flats or apartments, below the Queensland figure of 12%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses came to 5%, below the state's 12%. Separate houses made up 90%, above the 75% across Queensland. Homes with three bedrooms came to 46%, above the 37% across Queensland. Homes with four or more bedrooms came to 31%, below the state's 39%, and those with two bedrooms or fewer to 21%, below Queensland's 22%. On Census night 13% of private dwellings in St George were unoccupied, above the 9% across the state.

Of renting households in St George, 38% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the Queensland figure of 66%. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. The median rent was $210 a week, below the state's $365.

Renting households make up 42%, above the 33% across Queensland. Another 25% were paying off a mortgage, below the state's 34%, with a median repayment of $1,275 a month, below the $1,733 statewide. Outright owners made up 29% of households, the same as the state.

Median household income was $1,338 a week, below Queensland's $1,675. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median rent equals 16% of the median income of all households in St George, renters or not, below the 22% across Queensland.

At the 2021 Census, 52% of people aged five and over in St George lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 48% across Queensland. The town of St George was home to 2,508 people at the 2021 Census. The median age was 36 years, below the Queensland median of 38, and households held 2.4 people on average, below the state figure of 2.5.