Showing posts with label urbanest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urbanest. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

South Bank Census Data

One area of Brisbane where there are many apartments is the South Bank area of South Brisbane.  However, there is little data available about this area because it is leasehold land.  The 2011 Census has some interesting data.  The apartments in this area include Arbour on Grey, Saville Southbank (also known as Mantra Southbank) and Urbanest student accommodation.



  • population - 804 people
  • median age - 22
  • Most people are in the 20 to 24 age group (31% of the population)
  • 91 families
  • 17% married
  • 66% have University qualifications (compared with 13.5% for Qld or 14.35 for Australia as a whole).
  • 231 dwellings in total (of which, 92% are apartments)
  • Average of 2.1 people per household
  • 66% of dwellings had 2 bedrooms
  • Median weekly household income - $1,687
  • 70% of dwellings are rented
  • Median rent - $500 per week
  • 0.9 cars per dwelling
  • Ancestry: "The most common ancestries were English 17.2%, Chinese 16.1%, Australian 11.9%, Irish 5.0% and Scottish 4.7%."
  • Country of birth: "In 3111003 (Statistical Area Level 1), 31.4% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 6.0%, Hong Kong (SAR of China) 4.9%, Singapore 4.4%, England 4.2% and Korea, Republic of (South) 4.0%."
  • 68% had both parents born outside of Australia.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

South Bank Student Accommodation

Urbanest is operating a student dormitory accommodation building at South Bank, near the TAFE. It has a total of 713 rooms and studios, which are furnished and air-conditioned. The rooms are small and tight -- for example, 5 bedrooms will share a kitchen. And the pricing is amazing -- for example, a studio for one person is listed on the website as being $435 a week, or a bedroom in a 4 bedroom hallway is $336 per week.

For $650 a week, you could rent a large two bed furnished apartment in the Arbour on Grey, or for $750 a luxury two bed furnished apartment in Saville South Bank. So two students sharing a two bedroom apartment would do much better than renting in Urbanest.