Gailes

Gailes is a suburb in the City of Ipswich. It's home to 1,828 people as of the 2016 census.

Demographics
In the 2016 census, Gailes recorded a population of 1,828 people, 49.3% female and 50.7% male. The median age of the Gailes population was 34 years, 4 years below the national median. 62.1% of people living in Gailes were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand (6.4%), England (2.9%), Vietnam (2.7%), Samoa (1.7%) and Laos (1.0%).

Gailes is a predominantly family suburb with 69.9% of households being family households. Of these family households, 65.2% have children. The other households are single-person households (26.4%) and group households (3.7%).

Real estate
When the 2016 census was held, the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,300 and median weekly rent was $270.

At the time, Gailes was home to 741 private dwellings. 93.8% of the dwellings were occupied. Of these occupied dwellings, 89.0% were separate houses and 10.5% were semi-detached houses (such as townhouses); there were no apartments. The average number of a dwelling's bedrooms was 3 and the average number of people in a Gailes household was 2.6.