Terraces and townhouses above the Queensland share
Attached homes are a distinctive part of Nambour. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses make up 17% of occupied homes in the town, above the 12% across QLD. Flats or apartments come to 8%, below the state's 12%, and separate houses to 74%, below the 75% across QLD. The figures suggest a town where the attached home sits more prominently in the mix than it does statewide.
Among Nambour's homes, 41% have three bedrooms, above the 37% across QLD. 24% have two bedrooms or fewer, above the state's 22%, while 33% have four or more bedrooms, below the 39% across QLD. The figures suggest homes in the town lean toward three bedrooms and fewer, compared with Queensland.
Rent against income in Nambour
Worked out on this page from two medians, the median weekly rent in Nambour equals 27% of the median weekly income of all its households, above the 22% across QLD. It is not what any renter pays. The two medians behind it are a rent of $360 a week, below the $365 across QLD, and a household income of $1,354 a week, below the state's $1,675.
40% of households in Nambour are paying off a mortgage, above the 34% across QLD, with a median repayment of $1,650 a month, below the state's $1,733. 25% own their home outright (29% across QLD) and 30% rent (33% across QLD), both below the state. Of the renting households, 63% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 66% across QLD.
Who lives in the town of Nambour
20,918 people lived in the town of Nambour at the 2021 Census. Their median age is 40 years, above the 38 across QLD, which suggests an older population at the middle of the age range than the state's. An average household in Nambour holds 2.5 people, the same as the 2.5 across QLD, so on household size the town and the state line up.
Asked in 2021 where they had lived in 2016, 46% of people aged five and over in Nambour gave the same address, below the 48% across QLD. The figure suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over in the town at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state as a whole.