The average Brisbane resident is 35, earns $633 a week, lives in a household that brings in $1388 a week and pays out $1950 each month for their mortgage, the 2011 Australian census has revealed.

Brisbane households are home to an average 2.7 people in each house and the city's renters pay an average $325 a week – up $105 from the 2006 census.

That was part of the picture of greater Brisbane, including the council areas of Brisbane, Redlands, Ipswich and Moreton Bay, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 2011 census.

The census showed that in greater Brisbane: