Taringa real estate

Flats and apartments make up 62% of occupied homes in Taringa, above the 12% across QLD. Separate houses, at 28%, are below the 75% across QLD, and townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses, at 9%, are below the 12% across QLD.

Homes are smaller by bedroom count. Two bedrooms or fewer accounts for 53% of homes, above the 22% across QLD, while three bedrooms (29%, against 37% across QLD) and four or more (17%, against 39% across QLD) are both below the state. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the 9% across QLD.

Renting is more common in Taringa than across QLD: 48% of households, against 33%. Of those renting households, 77% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 66% across QLD. Paying off a mortgage, at 24% of households, is below the 34% across QLD, and owning outright, at 25%, is below the 29% across QLD.

The median rent was $385 a week, above the $365 across QLD, and the median household income was $1,902 a week, above the $1,675 across QLD. On this page the two medians give a rent equal to 20% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below the 22% across QLD. The median mortgage repayment was $1,900 a month, above the $1,733 across QLD.

33% of people aged five and over in Taringa lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 48% across QLD. The figure answers one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.

The median age was 33 years, below the 38 across QLD, which suggests younger residents than the state as a whole. An average household held 2.2 people, below the 2.5 across QLD, which suggests smaller households. At the 2021 Census, 8,732 people lived in the suburb of Taringa.