Kinds of homes and bedroom counts
Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 40% of Sherwood's homes, above 22% across Queensland. Three bedrooms describe 29%, below the state's 37%, and four or more bedrooms 31%, below 39% statewide. Separate houses account for 51% of occupied homes, below the Queensland share of 75%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 16%, above 12% statewide. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the state's 9%.
Repayments, income and rent
Sherwood's median mortgage repayment is $2,197 a month, above $1,733 across Queensland, and the median household income is $2,034 a week, above the state's $1,675. Paying off a mortgage describes 33% of households, below 34% statewide, and outright ownership 28%, below the Queensland figure of 29%.
Renting covers 36% of households, above 33% across the state, and 73% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 66% statewide. The median rent is $390 a week, above the Queensland median of $365. Measured against the median weekly income of all households and worked out on this page, that rent equals 19%, below the state's 22%.
Age, household size and address
The suburb of Sherwood was home to 6,082 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age is 38 years, the same as across Queensland. An average household holds 2.3 people, below the state's 2.5. Asked in 2021 where they lived in 2016, 45% of people aged five and over in Sherwood gave the same address as in 2021, below 48% across Queensland.