Purga

Purga is a suburb in the City of Ipswich. It's home to 576 people as of the 2016 census.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Purga recorded a population of 576 people, 48.8% female and 51.2% male. The median age of the Purga population was 43 years, 5 years above the national median. 83.0% of people living in Purga were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England (3.5%), New Zealand (2.3%), Canada (0.7%), Bangladesh (0.5%) and the United States of America (0.5%).

Purga is a predominantly family suburb with 83.1% of households being family households. Of these family households, 60.4% have children. The other households are single-person households (14.8%) and group households (2.2%).

Employment and wealth
In 2016, Purga had an unemployment rate of 3.6%, 3.3% lower than the national rate. The top industries were road freight transport (7.4%), supermarket and grocery stores (4.9%), hospitals (except psychiatric hospitals) (3.7%), beef cattle farming (specialised) (3.3%) and real estate services (3.3%).

The weekly median household income was $1,512 (annually $78,624) and the weekly median personal income was $613 (annually $31,876).

Schools
There are no schools currently open in Purga.