While the total number of people who own a home has increased, overall the percentage of home owners in the state has decreased.
Demographer Elin Charles-Edwards, from the University of Queensland, said the ongoing shift in home ownership was "one of the more concerning results from the census"."The Australian dream still really is to own your own home.""It is taking them longer to pay it off and that's reflected in the decline in the number of people buying houses outright," she said.
"We can see that there's been a big growth in the number of dwellings over the last 20 years that are in four-or-more-storey blocks," she said. "There's been a big push to build medium and high-density housing so that's now become a really good option for people," she said. "Brisbane, local government area, declined for the first time probably since the First World War, so a big shock to the system," Dr Charles-Edwards said."We stopped having international migrants coming in on the scale that they had previously."
Some of the regional declines were caused by out migration of young people, and an increase of mortality of an ageing population.
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