Macleay Island

Macleay Island is an island and suburb in Redland City. It's home to 2,681 people as of the 2016 census.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Macleay Island recorded a population of 2,681 people, 49.8% female and 50.2% male. The median age of the Macleay Island population was 59 years, 21 years above the national median. 67.8% of people living in Macleay Island were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England (7.4%), New Zealand (6.7%), Scotland (1.2%), Germany (1.2%) and the Philippines (0.9%).

Macleay Island is a predominantly family suburb with 56.5% of households being family households. Of these family households, 37.4% have children. The other households are single-person households (36.3%) and group households (7.2%).

Employment and wealth
In 2016, Macleay Island had an unemployment rate of 15.4%, 8.5% higher than the national rate. The top industries were supermarket and grocery stores (5.9%), building and other industrial cleaning services (3.7%), primary education (3.7%), child care services (3.5%) and aged care residential services (3.3%).

The weekly median household income was $706 (annually $36,712) and the weekly median personal income was $415 (annually $21,580).