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What's going on in Charters Towers

Population 8,040 · open in Google Maps ↗ · compare with another suburb

Top rank

#19 of 530 in Queensland

for % of adults with no post-school qualification (64.2%)

Rank 2

#44 of 530 in Queensland

for % Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (11.4%)

Rank 3

#58 of 530 in Queensland

for % single-parent families (23.0%)

The three dimensions where Charters Towers picks up its best ranks, state or national whichever is sharper.

Snapshot

Five fixed dimensions covered for every SA2. Rank shown is whichever of state or national gives the lower number — i.e. the most "top X" framing.

Median household income (weekly)
$1,282 / week
#428 of 530 in Queensland

Source: ABS Census 2021 about this dataset get the data yourself ↗

Median age
40 years
#232 of 530 in Queensland

Source: ABS Census 2021 about this dataset get the data yourself ↗

% of households renting
34.8%
#201 of 530 in Queensland

Source: ABS Census 2021 about this dataset get the data yourself ↗

Unemployment rate
6.5%
#123 of 530 in Queensland

Source: ABS Census 2021 about this dataset get the data yourself ↗

Average persons per bedroom
0.80
#399 of 530 in Queensland

Source: ABS Census 2021 about this dataset get the data yourself ↗

Walk the ranking

Charters Towers's sharpest rank is for % of adults with no post-school qualification. These are the places sitting either side of it nationally — each one carries its own neighbours, so the walk keeps going.

↑ #84 · one rank above Morawa Western Australia ↓ #86 · one rank below Condobolin New South Wales

Next door

Boundary: ABS ASGS Edition 3 (2021) SA2. Each source row links to a plain-language summary on About and to the data provider's portal — never a direct download.