Benowa real estate

Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 28% of occupied homes in Benowa, above the 12% across Queensland. Separate houses account for 61%, below the state's 75%, and flats or apartments for 10%, below the state's 12%. Taken together, the figures suggest a suburb where homes that share a wall sit alongside detached houses in a greater share than across the state.

Benowa leans towards more bedrooms. Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 49%, above the 39% across Queensland, and three-bedroom homes 34%, below the state's 37%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 16%, below the state's 22%. At the 2021 Census, 8% of private dwellings in Benowa were unoccupied, below the 9% across Queensland.

Of households in Benowa, 40% own their home outright, above the 29% across Queensland. Another 36% are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 34%, and 21% rent, below the state's 33%. The median mortgage repayment in Benowa is $2,167 a month, above the $1,733 across Queensland, and the median household income is $1,918 a week, above the state's $1,675.

Median rent in Benowa is $580 a week, above the $365 across Queensland. Worked out on this page, that median rent equals 30% of the median weekly income of all Benowa households, renters or not, above the 22% for Queensland. The figure sets one median against another; it is not what renters in Benowa pay from their own incomes. Among renting households, 70% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 66%.

At the 2021 Census, 9,889 people lived in the suburb of Benowa. The median age was 44 years, above the 38 across Queensland, which suggests an older population than the state as a whole. An average Benowa household holds 2.7 people, above the 2.5 across Queensland, which points to more people sharing each home, on average, than across the state. The 2021 Census asked each person aged five and over where they lived in 2016. In Benowa, 46% gave the same address, below the 48% across Queensland.