Algester

Algester is a suburb in the City of Brisbane. It's home to 8,433 people as of the 2016 census.

Name
Algester's name is derived from Algester Road which in turn is a corruption of Alcester Road. Alcester Road was named by the estate's sub-divider F. S. Brecknell after the main street of his hometown Mosely in Worcestershire, England.

Establishment as a suburb
Algester was established as a suburb on June 12, 1972 by the Queensland Place Names Board. Its name and boundaries were confirmed by the Queensland Minister for Survey and Valuation, Urban and Regional Affairs in 1975. The boundaries were altered in 2011 to align the suburb's boundaries with the centre of main roads and property lines.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Algester recorded a population of 8,433 people, 49.8% female and 50.2% male. The median age of the Algester population was 35 years, 3 years below the national median. 56.7% of people living in Algester were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand (6.7%), China (5.4%), England (3.6%), India (3.3%) and the Philippines (1.9%).

Algester is a predominantly family suburb with 78.6% of households being family households. Of these family households, 63.8% have children. The other households are single-person households (17.2%) and group households (4.2%).

Employment and wealth
In 2016, Algester had an unemployment rate of 7.4%, 0.5% higher than the national rate. The top industries were hospitals (except psychiatric hospitals) (4.5%), aged care residential services (3.3%), supermarket and grocery stores (2.8%), road freight transport (2.5%) and primary education (2.2%).

The weekly median household income was $1,526 (annually $79,352) and the weekly median personal income was $673 (annually $34,996).

Schools
Public schools
 * Algester State School

Private schools
 * St Stephen's School

Real estate
When the 2016 census was held, the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,753 and median weekly rent was $390.

At the time, Algester was home to 3,078 private dwellings. 94.8% of the dwellings were occupied. Of these occupied dwellings, 85.8% were separate houses, 10.8% were semi-detached houses (such as townhouses) and 1.5% were apartments. The average number of a dwelling's bedrooms was 3.4 and the average number of people in an Algester household was 2.8.