Division of Blair

Division of Blair is the federal division for suburbs of the City of Brisbane and City of Ipswich.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, the division of Blair recorded a population of 156,319 people, 50.5% female and 49.5% male. The median age of the population was 34 years, 4 years below national median. 77.8% of people living within the division of Blair were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand (4.1%), England (2.8%), the Philippines (0.8%), India (0.6%) and Samoa (0.5%).

Blair is a predominantly family division with 74.3% of households being family households. Of these family households, 63.3% have children. The other households are single-person households (22.2%) and group households (3.5%).

Employment and wealth
In 2016, the division of Blair had an unemployment rate of 8.7%, 1.8% higher than the national rate. The top industries were hospitals (except psychiatric hospitals) (3.9%), supermarket and grocery stores (3.1%), primary education (2.9%), defence (2.8%) and meat processing (2.6%).

The weekly household income was $1,303 (annually $67,756) and the weekly personal income was $625 (annually $32,500).