Blackstone

Blackstone is a suburb in the City of Ipswich. It's home to 1,024 people as of the 2016 census.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Blackstone recorded a population of 1,024 people, 49.4% female and 50.6% male. The median age of the Blackstone population was 36 years, 2 years below the national median. 76.2% of people living in Blackstone were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand (5.6%), England (2.4%), the Philippines (1.5%), Papua New Guinea (0.9%) and Scotland (0.8%).

Blackstone is a predominantly family suburb with 74.6% of households being family households. Of these family households, 63.3% have children. The other households are single-person households (22.8%) and group households (2.6%).

Employment and wealth
In 2016, Blackstone had an unemployment rate of 6.5%, 0.4% lower than the national rate. The top industries were supermarket and grocery stores (5.5%), hospitals (except psychiatric hospitals) (5.0%), primary education (4.3%), road freight transport (3.8%) and cafes and restaurants (3.1%).

The weekly median household income was $1,417 (annually $73,684) and the weekly median personal income was $630 (annually $32,760).

Real estate
When the 2016 census was held, the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,517 and median weekly rent was $310.

At the time, Blackstone was home to 412 private dwellings. 90.3% of the dwellings were occupied. Of these occupied dwellings, 100.0% were separate houses; there were no apartments or semi-detached houses (such as townhouses). The average number of a dwelling's bedrooms was 3.3 and the average number of people in a Blackstone household was 2.6.