Where 99% of occupied homes are separate houses
Across Queensland, 75% of occupied homes were separate houses; in Currumbin Valley the figure was 99%. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses came to 1%, and so did flats or apartments, where the state counted 12% of each. The figures suggest a suburb where homes stand on their own rather than sharing walls or buildings.
Four or more bedrooms were counted in 51% of Currumbin Valley homes, above the 39% across Queensland. Three bedrooms were counted in 30% of homes, below the state's 37%, and two bedrooms or fewer in 16%, below the state's 22%. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings in the suburb were unoccupied, compared with 9% across Queensland.
Outright owners and a smaller renting share
In Currumbin Valley, 42% of households owned their home outright, above the 29% across Queensland, while 41% were paying off a mortgage, above the state's 34%. Renters made up 14% of households, below the 33% statewide. The median mortgage repayment came to $2,500 a month, against $1,733 for Queensland, and median household income to $2,278 a week, against $1,675.
The landlord picture for renters differs from the state's. Of renting households in Currumbin Valley, 33% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 66% across Queensland. The others rented from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. Median rent was $510 a week, above the state's $365.
Worked out here from two medians, rent against the median weekly income of all households in the suburb, renters or not, comes to 22%. Queensland's figure, calculated the same way, is also 22%. The ratio is not a Census figure and says nothing about what renting households themselves pay.
Currumbin Valley's residents
Of people aged five and over in Currumbin Valley, 56% were living at the same address in 2021 as in 2016, according to a single Census question about where they lived five years earlier. Across Queensland that share was 48%.
The suburb of Currumbin Valley had 2,084 people at the 2021 Census. Their median age was 43 years, above the 38 across Queensland, which suggests an older resident population than the state's. Households averaged 3 people, above the state's 2.5, suggesting more people under each roof on average.