Mount Cotton

Mount Cotton is a suburb and mountain in Redland City. It's home to 6,835 people as of the 2016 census.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Mount Cotton recorded a population of 6,835 people, 49.8% female and 50.2% male. The median age of the Mount Cotton population was 32 years, 6 years below the national median. 76.8% of people living in Mount Cotton were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England (6.9%), New Zealand (4.6%), South Africa (2.8%), Scotland (0.7%) and India (0.4%).

Mount Cotton is a predominantly family suburb with 89.2% of households being family households. Of these family households, 67.8% have children. The other households are single-person households (8.9%) and group households (2.0%).

Real estate
When the 2016 census was held, the median monthly mortgage repayment was $2,200 and median weekly rent was $465.

At the time, Mount Cotton was home to 2,340 private dwellings. At the time 93.7% of the dwellings were occupied. Of these occupied dwellings, all of them were separate houses; there were no apartments or townhouses. The average number of a dwelling's bedrooms was 3.9 and the average number of people in a Mount Cotton household was 3.1.

Culture
On review website Homely, Mount Cotton is described as a family-friendly suburb with a "country feel" despite only being a ~15-minute drive to Redland Bay. Multiple reviews mention the local wallaby population.