5,539 of Forest Lake's 7,731 homes are lived in by the people who own them: 72 in every 100, against 63 across Queensland. Doorstep is the neighbourhood app made for them.Download freeQuestions
| Forest Lake | 72% | 5,539 | |
| Queensland | 63% | 1,186,744 | |
| Australia | 66% | 6,114,780 |
ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, tenure of occupied private dwellings, Forest Lake (SAL). These are all homes in the suburb, not Doorstep members.
5,360 of Forest Lake's owner-occupied homes are separate houses, with the gardens, fences, gutters and driveways that come with them. That's the stuff neighbours lend each other tools for, and swap tradie names about.
Median age 37. Forest Lake is a mix: young families, people mid-renovation and long-time owners, often on the same street.
Owners still paying it off are often the newer faces in Forest Lake: the households asking who does good gutters, where the kids play weekend sport, and whether anyone has a ladder long enough for the second storey.
Give away what you don't need, borrow what you need once, and ask the street a question. Posts come from people who live around Forest Lake.
A national gallery of kitchens, gardens and makeovers people are proud of. Show off yours, or steal ideas for the next one.
Ask who your neighbours would call, and find local businesses rated only by people who live nearby. Businesses in Forest Lake →
A free listing for trades, cafés and shops that serve Forest Lake, shown to the members who live nearby.
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5,539 of Forest Lake's 7,731 occupied homes were owner-occupied at the 2021 Census (72%): 1,914 owned outright and 3,625 with a mortgage. Across Queensland the figure is 63%.
Yes. Doorstep works in every Australian suburb: you join by typing your home suburb, and Forest Lake is one of them. Some streets are quieter than others while the area fills up.
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