Highfields real estate

At the 2021 Census, 74% of homes in Highfields had four or more bedrooms, above the Queensland share of 39%. Three-bedroom homes made up 20%, below the state's 37%, and homes with two bedrooms or fewer 5%, below the 22% statewide.

Separate houses accounted for 96% of occupied homes in Highfields, above Queensland's 75%. Flats or apartments came to fewer than 1%, below the 12% across the state, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses to 4%, also below the 12% across the state. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings in Highfields were unoccupied, below the state figure of 9%.

In Highfields, 46% of households own their home outright, above the 29% across Queensland, and 38% are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 34%. The median mortgage repayment was $1,842 a month, above the state median of $1,733, and median household income was $1,994 a week, above Queensland's $1,675.

Renting households make up 14% of households in Highfields, below the 33% across Queensland. Of them, 71% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 66%. The median rent was $410 a week, above the Queensland median of $365.

Compared with the median weekly income of all households in Highfields, renters or not, the median rent equals 21%. This share is worked out on this page from the two medians. The same working across Queensland gives 22%, so Highfields sits below the state.

The suburb of Highfields was home to 8,568 people at the 2021 Census. The median age was 45 years, above the state median of 38, and households held 2.8 people on average, above the 2.5 across Queensland.

Of people aged five and over in Highfields, 57% lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 48% across Queensland. That share comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.