Rent against income in Maroochydore
The median household income in the suburb of Maroochydore was $1,360 a week, below $1,675 across Queensland. Set the median weekly rent against it, counting every household, renters or not, and the rent equals 30% of that income, above 22% across Queensland. The comparison is worked out on this page from the two medians; it is not a Census figure, and it is not what renters themselves pay.
Fewer people here had stayed put: 35% of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier, below 48% across Queensland. On Census night, 13% of private dwellings in the suburb stood unoccupied, above 9% across Queensland.
Apartments, townhouses and small households
Maroochydore is a suburb of flats and townhouses more than houses. Flats or apartments made up 37% of occupied homes, against 12% across Queensland, townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses another 24%, and separate houses only 38%. Homes are small: 43% had two bedrooms or fewer. Households were small too, at 2.1 people on average against 2.5, and the median age was 47 years against 38. In all, 20,629 people lived in the suburb of Maroochydore at the 2021 Census.