Queensland Population 2024

January 21, 2024 by Babji

Queensland (abbreviated QLD) is northeastern state of Australia, borders to the north and east by the Coral Sea, to the south by New South Wales, to the southwest by South Australia, and to the west by the Northern Territory. Queensland population in 2024 is estimated to be 5.46 million, density is low, averaging less than two per sq.km. Queensland, the second largest of Australia's states, seven times larger than the United Kingdom, occupies nearly one-fourth of the continent, with a coastline stretching nearly 7,000km. Its offshore Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system, hosts thousands of marine species. The capital of Queensland is Brisbane, on the state's southeastern coast. Queensland is commonly regarded as a major resources state on agricultural, mineral, and energy resources. Average people per household is 2.8, Median weekly household income is $1,750, Median monthly mortgage repayments is $2,167, Median weekly rent is $440, Average motor vehicles per dwelling is 1.7.

Religions in Queensland

Regarding the religions of Queensland as per 2016 stats, Christianity is a major religion in the state of Queensland, 2.6 million follow Christianity, 1.3 million people stated as they follow no-religion, 70,789 people follow Buddhism, 45,961 people follow Hinduism, 44,885 follow Islam, 17,433 follow Sikhism and 4,387 follow Judaism.

Religions	Population
Religion	Persons
Buddhism	70,789
Christianity:
Anglican	719,718
Assyrian Apostolic	99
Baptist	87,640
Brethren	3,089
Catholic	1,022,514
Churches of Christ	8,378
Eastern Orthodox	32,306
Jehovah's Witnesses	24,971
Latter-day Saints	20,538
Lutheran	56,437
Oriental Orthodox	2,933
Other Protestant	23,978
Pentecostal	72,478
Presbyterian and Reformed	138,614
Salvation Army	12,429
Seventh-day Adventist	17,456
Uniting Church	238,313
Christianity, nfd	143,355
Other Christian	10,085
Total	2,635,342
Hinduism	45,961
Islam	44,885
Judaism	4,387
Other Religions:
Australian Aboriginal Traditional Religions	1,249
Sikhism	17,433
Other Religious Groups	16,812
Total	35,492
Secular Beliefs and Other Spiritual Beliefs and No Religious Affiliation:
No Religion	1,374,427
Secular Beliefs	14,560
Other Spiritual Beliefs	9,311
Total	1,398,297
Religious affiliation not stated	468,042
Total	4,703,193

Ethnic groups in Queensland

Indigenous status by age group in 2016:

Age Group	Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander	Non-Indigenous	Indigenous status not stated	Total
0-4 years	21,857	257,086	17,519	296,466
5-9 years	22,877	276,607	17,645	317,138
10-14 years	21,340	261,589	16,170	299,097
15-19 years	19,420	260,231	16,637	296,287
20-24 years	16,464	278,536	21,865	316,860
25-29 years	13,223	284,333	23,191	320,753
30-34 years	11,303	292,356	22,289	325,943
35-39 years	10,174	275,479	19,568	305,218
40-44 years	10,586	291,840	20,477	322,901
45-49 years	10,030	291,847	21,097	322,982
50-54 years	8,713	279,467	20,546	308,727
55-59 years	7,062	265,575	19,559	292,198
60-64 years	5,247	237,837	17,601	260,685
65 years and over	8,194	658,231	51,519	717,949
Total	186,482	4,211,020	305,685	4,703,193

The table below gives ancestry by country of birth:

Country of Birth	Population
Australian	1,649,284
Australian Aboriginal	36,971
Chinese	136,389
Croatian	12,146
Dutch	70,757
English	1,794,999
Filipino	52,844
French	29,411
German	296,387
Greek	29,602
Hungarian	12,139
Indian	74,094
Irish	564,334
Italian	131,687
Korean	21,863
Lebanese	7,690
Macedonian	2,547
Maltese	18,117
Maori	53,649
New Zealander	67,829
Polish	26,858
Russian	14,223
Scottish	486,648
Serbian	7,209
South African	26,699
Spanish	22,728
Sri Lankan	10,407
Turkish	3,442
Vietnamese	28,325
Welsh	31,425
Other	419,029
Ancestry not stated	354,904
Total persons	4,703,193

The table below gives the total number of people by Country of Birth:

Country of Birth	Population
Afghanistan	3,381
Australia	3,343,819
Bangladesh	2,763
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,187
Cambodia	2,032
Canada	10,805
Chile	2,234
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	47,114
Croatia	3,551
Egypt	2,449
England	180,775
Fiji	12,614
France	5,845
Germany	20,387
Greece	3,298
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	10,755
India	49,145
Indonesia	7,321
Iran	6,511
Iraq	2,845
Ireland	11,352
Italy	12,995
Japan	12,402
Korea, Republic of (South)	18,327
Lebanon	1,418
Malaysia	14,848
Malta	2,505
Mauritius	1,550
Myanmar	3,172
Nepal	5,074
Netherlands	14,067
New Zealand	201,206
Northern Ireland	4,218
Pakistan	4,675
Papua New Guinea	16,120
Philippines	39,661
Poland	5,030
Scotland	21,879
Singapore	6,716
South Africa	40,131
South Eastern Europe	2,768
Sri Lanka	9,752
Taiwan	15,592
Thailand	9,978
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	953
Turkey	1,493
United States of America	17,053
Vietnam	19,544
Wales	5,647
Zimbabwe	8,881
Born elsewhere	109,857
Country of Birth Not stated	343,501
Total	4,703,193

The table below gives the arrival stats, incoming to Australia by Country of birth by year.

National	Before 1946	1946-1955	1956-1965	1966-1975	1976-1985	1986-1995	1996-2005	2006-2010	2011-2016	Not Stated	Total
Canada	25	69	337	1,212	1,047	1,326	1,884	1,761	2,848	292	10,805
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	73	268	584	294	770	3,332	7,891	11,389	20,230	2,284	47,114
Croatia	3	98	789	1,275	174	382	544	78	84	120	3,551
Egypt	0	233	366	280	91	251	338	323	467	93	2,449
Fiji	24	66	196	596	1,199	3,370	3,076	2,027	1,739	319	12,614
Germany	28	4,369	3,089	2,413	2,514	1,586	2,252	1,831	1,655	648	20,387
Greece	45	603	1,102	684	170	128	133	62	201	167	3,298
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	27	67	142	443	1,012	2,678	2,040	1,190	2,719	441	10,755
India	30	341	349	1,287	787	1,877	5,487	18,862	18,599	1,531	49,145
Indonesia	20	304	429	393	519	755	1,737	1,121	1,835	219	7,321
Iran	0	23	17	91	300	514	741	1,403	3,282	144	6,511
Iraq	0	8	14	47	39	129	541	606	1,363	97	2,845
Ireland	41	322	585	1,490	979	1,386	1,477	2,196	2,584	298	11,352
Italy	260	3,114	3,820	1,874	386	313	471	472	1,561	733	12,995
Japan	5	89	66	150	299	1,743	3,679	2,149	3,247	959	12,402
Korea, Republic of (South)	0	0	3	42	274	1,200	3,685	4,958	7,001	1,166	18,327
Lebanon	7	42	92	357	257	222	163	99	131	47	1,418
Malaysia	38	38	675	1,487	1,865	2,168	2,244	2,203	3,654	479	14,848
Malta	27	996	696	344	148	72	53	29	59	80	2,505
Netherlands	14	3,896	3,436	1,455	1,499	715	1,156	734	739	422	14,067
New Zealand	207	528	2,271	10,674	29,471	34,424	46,869	34,995	34,418	7,351	201,206
Pakistan	0	12	21	58	110	174	782	979	2,413	134	4,675
Philippines	9	10	75	421	3,738	7,464	5,834	9,770	11,085	1,252	39,661
Poland	12	457	313	247	1,341	1,034	528	452	488	147	5,030
Singapore	22	22	180	730	584	796	1,437	971	1,734	239	6,716
South Africa	17	59	424	1,146	2,724	2,962	12,792	11,997	7,382	641	40,131
Sri Lanka	3	78	284	695	521	1,370	1,388	2,437	2,774	203	9,752
Thailand	0	3	16	114	481	1,344	1,942	2,466	3,113	501	9,978
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	0	4	55	307	121	157	176	50	61	15	953
Turkey	0	9	24	287	155	229	264	198	251	78	1,493
United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man	711	12,545	27,979	46,326	21,947	20,945	28,715	28,018	20,673	6,514	214,366
United States of America	12	207	489	2,094	1,406	1,932	3,302	2,727	4,365	507	17,053
Vietnam	4	9	20	368	5,133	4,738	2,149	2,805	3,594	725	19,544
Zimbabwe	0	16	108	162	993	799	3,015	2,496	1,170	119	8,881
Born elsewhere	302	2,955	6,561	16,438	13,380	21,505	30,131	28,425	44,992	7,032	171,724
Total	1,988	31,868	55,619	96,273	96,443	124,030	178,917	182,282	212,464	35,994	1,015,875

Literacy

Age of persons attending an educational institution

Age of persons	Male	Female	Population
0-4 years	25,836	24,439	50,275
5-14 years	288,405	273,953	562,361
15-19 years	100,458	103,765	204,221
20-24 years	44,046	54,847	98,892
25 years and over	60,980	106,296	167,275

Highest year of school completed

Highest year of school completed	Male	Female	Population
Year 12 or equivalent	909,965	1,003,948	1,913,912
Year 11 or equivalent	150,294	144,180	294,474
Year 10 or equivalent	424,400	434,975	859,375
Year 9 or equivalent	95,740	86,445	182,184
Year 8 or below	89,816	91,233	181,049
Did not go to school	8,932	9,501	18,433

Languages in Queensland

English is the official language of Queensland, 3.8 million people speak english only, South east asian language speakers include 11,371 speak Filipino, 5,551 Indonesian, 16,999 Tagalog, 8,126 Thai, 8,126 Thai and 16,877 Japanese. European language speakers include 4,009 Croatian, 7,157 Dutch, 11,988 French, 16,488 German, 10,538 Greek, 21,006 Spanish, 20,009 Italian and 5,224 Polish. Indian language speakers include 5,520 Tamil, 3,683 Bengali, 18,163 Hindi, 17,991 Punjabi. Chinese language speakers include 24,900 Cantonese, 69,474 Mandarin.

Language	Population
Speaks English only	3,820,632
Speaks other language:
Afrikaans	12,525
Arabic	13,644
Australian Indigenous Languages	13,474
Chinese languages:
Cantonese	24,900
Mandarin	69,474
Other	4,253
Total	98,629
Croatian	4,009
Dutch	7,157
French	11,988
German	16,488
Greek	10,538
Indo-Aryan languages:
Bengali	3,683
Hindi	18,163
Punjabi	17,991
Sinhalese	5,907
Urdu	4,957
Other	14,465
Italian	20,009
Japanese	16,877
Korean	19,620
Macedonian	1,264
Maltese	1,357
Persian (excluding Dari)	6,713
Polish	5,224
Russian	6,005
Samoan	14,969
Serbian	4,759
Southeast Asian Austronesian languages:
Filipino	11,371
Indonesian	5,551
Tagalog	16,999
Other	3,926
Total	37,844
Spanish	21,006
Tamil	5,520
Thai	8,126
Turkish	2,054
Vietnamese	25,914
Other	106,795
Total	557,690
Language spoken at home not stated	324,871
Total	4,703,193

Queensland population in 2023 is estimated to be 5.37 million, population in 2022 is estimated to be 5.32 million, Population of Queensland in 2021 is estimated to be 5.21 million. Queensland population by Age, 2,321,889 are Male, 2,381,308 are female.

Age groups	Male	Female	Population

Total persons	2,321,889	2,381,308	4,703,193

Age groups:
0-4 years	152,036	144,432	296,466
5-14 years	316,486	299,749	616,236
15-19 years	151,196	145,089	296,287
20-24 years	159,280	157,576	316,860
25-34 years	317,852	328,837	646,694
35-44 years	307,148	320,977	628,124
45-54 years	308,537	323,168	631,705
55-64 years	270,282	282,601	552,886
65-74 years	208,597	214,009	422,601
75-84 years	98,704	111,109	209,818
85 years and over	31,767	53,759	85,528

Age Group	Married	Separated	Divorced	Widowed	Never married	Total
15-19 years	828	131	107	144	295,080	296,287
20-24 years	16,381	1,344	489	247	298,402	316,860
25-34 years	244,846	16,267	13,876	987	370,718	646,694
35-44 years	369,713	31,741	48,761	3,003	174,901	628,124
45-54 years	380,782	36,941	94,001	8,456	111,535	631,705
55-64 years	348,407	27,228	101,152	20,860	55,228	552,886
65-74 years	272,227	15,713	69,262	42,948	22,455	422,601
75-84 years	116,444	4,713	22,089	57,778	8,785	209,818
85 years and over	26,294	878	4,647	50,240	3,466	85,528

Total	1,775,915	134,954	354,381	184,669	1,340,577	3,790,497

Subdivisions of Queensland

Since 1970 Queensland's population growth has markedly exceeded the Australian average. primarily by interstate migration, stimulated by economy that has benefited from construction, mining, transport, tourism. City of Brisbane, City of Ipswich, Moreton Bay Region, Logan City and Redland City, as well as parts of Lockyer Valley Region, Scenic Rim Region and Somerset Region, which form a continuous metropolitan area.

Local Government Area	Type	Natural Increase	Net Overseas Migration	Area Sq.km	2020 Estimated Resident Population
Aurukun	Shire	18	2	7424.0	1,370
Balonne	Shire	28	11	31103.7	4,321
Banana	Shire	67	42	28550.2	14,065
Barcaldine	Region	-9	3	53382.7	2,814
Barcoo	Shire	0	1	61830.1	263
Blackall-Tambo	Region	2	1	30537.2	1,845
Boulia	Shire	4	0	60905.7	416
Bulloo	Shire	0	1	73723.8	324
Bundaberg	Region	-76	391	6431.0	96,364
Burdekin	Shire	26	71	5043.9	16,953
Burke	Shire	4	1	39684.1	354
Cairns	Region	1086	1,111	1689.3	168,449
Carpentaria	Shire	19	3	64121.0	1,970
Cassowary Coast	Region	13	144	4687.8	29,964
Central Highlands (Qld)	Region	342	62	59834.8	28,727
Charters Towers	Region	32	17	68382.2	11,731
Cherbourg	Shire	5	1	31.6	1,335
Cloncurry	Shire	22	6	47971.3	3,004
Cook	Shire	17	6	105718.8	4,595
Croydon	Shire	5	0	29497.9	285
Diamantina	Shire	5	0	94730.5	286
Doomadgee	Shire	17	3	1827.7	1,534
Douglas	Shire	24	100	2427.9	12,426
Etheridge	Shire	8	0	39199.3	794
Flinders (Qld)	Shire	14	2	41199.9	1,512
Fraser Coast	Region	-274	213	7104.6	108 183
Gladstone	Region	499	233	10484.3	63,861
Gold Coast	City	3067	5,073	1333.7	635,191
Goondiwindi	Region	58	20	19258.1	10,817
Gympie	Region	43	71	6884.0	52,935
Hinchinbrook	Shire	-41	11	2807.2	10,645
Hope Vale	Shire	13	3	1111.7	1,140
Isaac	Region	301	47	58707.9	20,987
Kowanyama	Shire	5	1	2555.3	1,003
Livingstone	Shire	154	73	11757.9	38,617
Lockhart River	Shire	4	3	3575.5	810
Longreach	Region	4	8	40572.2	3,407
Mackay	Region	873	258	7613.3	117,902
McKinlay	Shire	7	1	40736.8	823
Mapoon	Shire	0	2	537.1	339
Maranoa	Region	117	18	58705.3	12,688
Mareeba	Shire	125	95	53491.1	23,116
Mornington	Shire	10	1	1247.7	1,231
Mount Isa	City	296	69	43713.0	18,578
Murweh	Shire	12	10	40699.8	4,220
Napranum	Shire	19	5	2004.4	1,099
Noosa	Shire	-70	280	869.9	56,587
North Burnett	Region	2	59	19669.8	10,656
Northern Peninsula Area	Region	59	3	1052.1	3,224
Palm Island	Shire	10	2	72.0	2,684
Paroo	Shire	13	1	47612.9	1,554
Pormpuraaw	Shire	7	1	4395.4	856
Quilpie	Shire	5	0	67414.7	774
Richmond	Shire	7	1	26580.7	813
Rockhampton	Region	447	230	6570.3	81,999
South Burnett	Region	53	38	8381.6	32,632
Southern Downs	Region	44	75	7107.8	35,407
Sunshine Coast	Region	817	1,558	2253.9	336,482
Tablelands	Region	-36	72	11292.9	25,667
Toowoomba	Region	901	602	12957.2	170,356
Torres	Shire	50	8	883.7	3,924
Torres Strait Island	Region	78	2	490.0	5,178
Townsville	City	1345	702	3730.8	196,800
Weipa	Town	87	8	10.8	4,445
Western Downs	Region	197	65	37936.6	34,579
Whitsunday	Region	192	274	23818.9	35,927
Winton	Shire	0	1	53813.5	1,135
Woorabinda	Shire	-9	2	390.6	995
Wujal Wujal	Shire	4	1	11.8	316
Yarrabah	Shire	33	2	158.8	2,933
City of Brisbane					2,596,970
Ipswich	Metropolitan City	2527	797	1093.9	229,845
Brisbane	Metropolitan City	7811	11,131	1342.7	1,272,999
Moreton Bay	Metropolitan City	2506	1,882	2041.5	479,639
Logan	Metropolitan City	3511	1,692	958.1	341,985
Redland	Metropolitan City	439	521	537.2	160,331
Lockyer Valley	Metropolitan City	190	274	2269.0	42,267
Scenic Rim	Metropolitan City	84	95	4242.7	43,625
Somerset	Metropolitan City	60	52	5373.4	26,279

Income Distribution

According to 2016 Australian Bureau stats, Weekly income for the people living in Victoria state are 97,722 people earn more than $3,000, 171,566 earn between $2,000 to $2,999, 841,717 people earn between $1,000 to $2,000, 928,630 people earn between $500 to $1000, 916,807 million people earn between $150 to $500 and 155,103 people earn between $1 to $149. Median age of persons is 37, Median mortgage repayment $1,733 per month, Median total personal income is $660 weekly, Median rent is $330 per week, Median total family income is $1,661 weekly, Average number of persons per bedroom is 0.8 people, Median total household income is $1,402 weekly, Average household size is 2.6.

Income Weekly	Population
$1-$149	155,103
$150-$299	267,300
$300-$399	328,755
$400-$499	320,752
$500-$649	301,624
$650-$799	303,800
$800-$999	323,206
$1,000-$1,249	322,062
$1,250-$1,499	216,133
$1,500-$1,749	184,552
$1,750-$1,999	118,970
$2,000-$2,999	171,566
$3,000 or more	97,722

Personal income not stated	355,411
Negative/Nil income	323,525
Total	3,790,497

History

Early human habitation of Queensland indicates in this region, Aboriginal peoples have probably been in the area of Queensland for 50,000 years. By the time of British explorers expected population of 250,000 Aborigines inhabited in the Queensland area. Their main occupation is fishing and living along the coast where food was plentiful, or mountain people, occupying the central and western areas. It was therefore in 1849 before immigrant ships from Britain sailed directly to Brisbane, separation from New South Wales was achieved in 1859 and the new colony of Queensland was proclaimed. At that time the European population was only 23,520, by this time the gold sources at Canoona was already discovered at Ipswich in 1858 and coal was in 1827. By 1867 the population of the state had grown to around 100,000.