Separate houses, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses
Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses make up 20% of occupied homes in Marsden, above 12% across QLD, while flats or apartments are fewer than 1%, below the QLD figure of 12%. Separate houses account for 79%, above 75% across QLD.
In Marsden, 9% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, against 22% across QLD. Three-bedroom homes are 47%, above 37%, and homes with four or more bedrooms 41%, above 39% across QLD. At the 2021 Census, 6% of private dwellings in Marsden were unoccupied on Census night, below the 9% across QLD.
Renting through agents in Marsden
In Marsden, 53% of households rent, above 33% across QLD, and 13% own their home outright, below the QLD figure of 29%. A further 32% are paying off a mortgage, below 34% across QLD. Among renting households, 76% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 66% across QLD.
The median rent was $350 a week in Marsden, below $365 across QLD, and the median mortgage repayment $1,457 a month, below $1,733. Median household income was $1,409 a week, below $1,675 across QLD. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 25% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above 22% across QLD.
A median age of 28, and 3.3 to a household
The median age in Marsden is 28 years, below 38 across QLD, which suggests younger residents than across the state. At the 2021 Census, 14,795 people lived in the suburb of Marsden, and an average household held 3.3 people, above 2.5 across QLD. That suggests more people sharing each home than across the state.
Of people aged five and over in Marsden, 43% lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 48% across QLD. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, and the lower share suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier than across the state.