Dunwich

Dunwich is a suburb on North Stradbroke Island in Redland City. It's home to 864 people as of the 2016 census. The North Stradbroke Island Ferry Terminal is located on a small point of Dunwich's south-western boundary.

Name
The area was initially named by Europeans when John Oxley interchangeably called it Freshwater Point and Green Point. Eventually, the area came to be named Dunwich by Admiral Henry John Rous after his family titles in Britain (his father had been the Viscount of Dunwich).

The area is named Goompi by the local Indigenous people.

European settlement
Dunwich began to be settled by Europeans in the 1820s as part of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement. A depot was set up in 1827, utilising a stone jetty built by convicts.

In 1850, a quarantine station was established to temporarily house those with infectious diseases, especially those coming to Brisbane on diseased ships. The quarantine station closed in 1866 and the buildings were re-used when the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum opened.

Establishment as a locality
Dunwich was established as a locality by the Queensland Minister for Natural Resources and Mines on March 11, 2005.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Dunwich recorded a population of 864 people, 50.5% female and 49.5% male. The median age of the Dunwich population was 42 years, 4 years above the national median. 84.5% of people living in Dunwich were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England (2.7%), New Zealand (1.3%), Cambodia (0.5%), Germany (0.3%) and Thailand (0.3%).

Dunwich is a predominantly family suburb with 62.2% of households being family households. Of these family households, 62.1% have children. The other households are single-person households (35.2%) and group households (2.6%).

Employment and wealth
In 2016, Dunwich had an unemployment rate of 8.9%, 2.0% higher than the national rate. The top industries were mineral sand mining (15.0%), accommodation (6.1%), building and other industrial cleaning services (4.1%), clubs (hospitality) (3.8%) and primary education (3.8%).

The weekly median household income was $944 (annually $49,088) and the weekly median personal income was $545 (annually $28,340).

Historical population
See more: Category:Dunwich electoral rolls

Catchments
All of Dunwich is in the catchments of Dunwich State School for prep to grade six and Cleveland District State High School for grades seven to twelve. The latter school is on the mainland.

Schools
Public schools
 * Dunwich State School

Real estate
When the 2016 census was held, the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,733 and median weekly rent was $250.

At the time, Dunwich was home to 429 private dwellings. 82.2% of the dwellings were occupied. Of these occupied dwellings, 93.9% were separate houses and 2.1% were apartments; there were no semi-detached houses (such as townhouses). The average number of a dwelling's bedrooms was 2.9 and the average number of people in a Dunwich household was 2.3.