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Drayton

Bordered by Stenner Street and Euston Road to the north, Drayton Road and Gipps street to the east, Hayden Street to the south and Boundary Street to the west, Drayton is home to 1 650 people. The suburb is therefore one of the smaller suburbs of Toowoomba and one of the youngest with the median age being 32 years of age.

The weekly median individual income is $442 and the median household income is $890 per week which is slightly low. 442 families live in Drayton and there are 668 private dwellings of which almost 80 per cent are separate houses and 13 per cent are flats, units or apartments.

The median weekly rent in Drayton is $165 which is low and the average monthly housing loan repayment is $1 000 per month which is below average. On average, 2.7 people live in each dwelling in Drayton which is about average. One third of the dwellings in Drayton are being rented. 6.5 per cent of the dwellings are group households and 71.2% are family households.

Sources2006 Census QuickStats: Drayton (Toowoomba City) (State Suburb) (2007). Australian Bureau of Statistics. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au