Bli Bli real estate

With flats or apartments at fewer than 1% of occupied homes (12% across QLD), apartment living barely registers in Bli Bli. Separate houses made up 82%, above the 75% across QLD, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses 16%, above the 12% across QLD. On Census night, 5% of private dwellings in Bli Bli were unoccupied, below the 9% across the state.

Bedroom counts lean upwards. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer were 16%, below the 22% across QLD, while three bedrooms (40%, against 37%) and four or more (43%, against 39%) both sat above the state. The figures suggest homes with more bedrooms are more common here than across Queensland.

Renting is less common in Bli Bli than across QLD: 20% of households, against 33%. Owning ran above the state in both forms, with 37% of households owning outright (29% across QLD) and 40% paying off a mortgage (34% across QLD). The median mortgage repayment was $1,900 a month, above the $1,733 across QLD.

The median rent was $460 a week, above the $365 across QLD, while the median household income of $1,670 a week sat below the $1,675 across QLD. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 28% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, against 22% across QLD. Of renting households, 67% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 66% across QLD.

At the 2021 Census, 10,138 people lived in the suburb of Bli Bli. The median age was 41 years, above the 38 across QLD, which suggests an older population than the state as a whole. An average household held 2.6 people, above the 2.5 across QLD, which suggests more people sharing each home than across Queensland.

Of people aged five and over, 48% lived at the same address five years earlier, the same as the 48% across QLD. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.