Elliott Heads real estate

Separate houses made up 95% of occupied homes in Elliott Heads at the 2021 Census, above the 75% across Queensland. Flats or apartments came to 2%, below the state's 12%, and none of the occupied homes were townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses.

On Census night, 16% of private dwellings in Elliott Heads were unoccupied, above the Queensland figure of 9%. Three bedrooms described 47% of homes, above the state's 37%, and two bedrooms or fewer 25%, above 22% statewide. Homes with four or more bedrooms came to 26%, below the 39% across Queensland.

In Elliott Heads, 45% of households owned their home outright, above the 29% across Queensland. Paying off a mortgage applied to 27%, below the state's 34%, with a median repayment of $1,300 a month, below the state figure of $1,733. Median household income was $1,026 a week, below Queensland's $1,675.

Renting households made up 25%, below the state's 33%, and 71% of them rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 66% statewide. The median rent was $293 a week, below Queensland's $365. 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%.

The median age in Elliott Heads was 54 years at the 2021 Census, above the Queensland median of 38. Households averaged 2.2 people, below the state average of 2.5. The suburb of Elliott Heads was home to 1,160 people in all. Asked in 2021 where they lived in 2016, 44% of people aged five and over in Elliott Heads gave the same address as in 2021. Across Queensland the share was 48%, so Elliott Heads sits below the state on this measure.