Merrimac real estate

Separate houses account for 48% of occupied homes in Merrimac, below the Queensland share of 75%, and flats or apartments for 10%, below 12% statewide. On Census night, 4% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the state's 9%. Of Merrimac's homes, 58% have three bedrooms, above 37% across the state. Four or more bedrooms describe 25% of homes, below the Queensland figure of 39%, and two bedrooms or fewer describe 15%, below 22% statewide.

The median rent in Merrimac is $463 a week, above $365 across Queensland. That median rent equals 27% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, worked out on this page, above the state's 22%. Renting covers 34% of households, above 33% statewide, and 58% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the Queensland share of 66%.

The median mortgage repayment is $1,733 a month, the same as across Queensland. Paying off a mortgage is the position of 43% of households, above 34% statewide, and owning outright of 20%, below the state's 29%. The median household income is $1,688 a week, above the Queensland figure of $1,675.

Merrimac's median age is 38 years, the same as across Queensland, and an average household holds 2.6 people, above the state's 2.5. The suburb of Merrimac had 7,212 people at the 2021 Census. Asked in 2021 where they lived in 2016, 44% of people aged five and over in Merrimac gave the same address as in 2021, below 48% across Queensland.