Bakers Creek Demographics (QLD) Local Stats

Bakers Creek (4740) is a suburb of Central Coast, Mackay & Whitsundays, Queensland. It is about 798 kms from QLD's capital city of Brisbane. Bakers Creek is in the federal electorates of Capricornia, Dawson.

In the 2011 census the population of Bakers Creek was 919 and is comprised of approximately 43.5% females and 56.5% males.

The median/average age of the population of Bakers Creek is 37 years of age.

83.0% of people living in the suburb of Bakers Creek were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were 3.6% New Zealand, 1.5% Philippines, 0.9% Cook Islands, 0.7% Scotland, 0.5% Italy, 0.5% Germany, 0.4% England, 0.4% United States of America.

89.9% of people living in Bakers Creek speak English only. The other top languages spoken are 7.6% Language spoken at home not stated, 0.7% Tagalog, 0.4% Spanish, 0.4% German, 0.3% Australian Indigenous Languages , 0.3% Tamil, 0.3% Samoan.

The religious makeup of Bakers Creek is 24.9% Catholic, 20.9% No religion, 14.1% Anglican, 13.3% Religious affiliation not stated, 9.7% Uniting Church, 4.2% Presbyterian and Reformed, 3.2% Seventh-day Adventist, 1.7% Lutheran, 1.6% Christian, nfd, 1.3% Pentecostal.

44.4% of people are married, 38.2% have never married and 10.3% are divorced and 3.7% are separated. There are 25 widowed people living in Bakers Creek.

70.6% of the people living in Bakers Creek over the age of 15 and who identify as being in the labour force are employed full time, 19.5% are working on a part time basis. Bakers Creek has an unemployment rate of 2.4%.

The main occupations of people living in Bakers Creek are 22.7% Technicians & trades workers, 20.0% Machinery operators & drivers, 17.1% Labourers, 11.0% Clerical & administrative workers, 7.5% Community & personal service workers, 7.3% Sales workers, 7.1% Managers, 4.8% Professionals, 2.5% Occupation inadequately described/ Not stated.

The main industries people from Bakers Creek work in are 12.0% Construction, 11.6% Manufacturing, 11.2% Retail trade, 9.5% Transport, postal and warehousing, 8.1% Mining, 7.7% Other services, 6.8% Health care and social assistance, 5.4% Wholesale trade, 5.2% Inadequately described/Not stated.

33.0% of homes are fully owned, and 41.3% are in the process of being purchased by home loan mortgage. 21.8% of homes are rented.

The median individual income is $701 per week and the median household income is $1305 per week.

The median rent in Bakers Creek is $250 per week and the median mortgage repayment is $1517 per month.

Check out FY 2013 Tax Stats for Bakers Creek postcode 4740