Townsville had the highest rate of youth, indigenous and general unemployment across the country, with Indigenous unemployment at 23.1 per cent followed closely behind by Cairns (22.9) and Mackay (20.8).
Four Queensland cities took out the top five spots for annual employment growth, with Toowoomba coming in second followed by Cairns, Mackay and Townsville in fifth spot.
Brisbane came in halfway out of the capital cities for residents who have completed Year 12 and those who have completed a bachelor degree or higher, behind Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne.
Hou s ing
Mackay took out the spot for most affordable housing across the nation, where dwelling price to income ratio was 4.4, compared to the most expensive city, the Sunshine Coast, where the ratio was 9.3.
Brisbane sat halfway in terms of annual household income compared to the other capital cities, coming in fourth at $81,000, behind Canberra, Sydney and Perth.
Three sunshine state cities recorded the five highest rates of homelesness, with 847 people living homeless in Cairns per 100,000 people, 588 in Mackay and 539 in Townsville.
Gold Coast residents were under the most rent stress, with 16.7 per cent living in rentals that pull 30 per cent or more from their household income.
Liveability and Sustainability
Despite holding a Carnival of Flowers each year, Toowoomba came in last nationally for its resident's access to green space.
According to ABS data, only 66.3 per cent of dwellings in the flower city were within 400 meters of a green space and only 3.8 per cent of the city had a portion of land defined as a green space.
Toowoomba also recorded the highest proportion of obese adults across the country, at about one third of the population.
Brisbane was the second biggest greenhouse gas emitter behind Perth, emitting 20 tonnes of direct emissions per capita and nine tonnes per capita of indirect emissions from the generation of electricity, according to the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
Queensland cities also varied in terms of feelings of safety, with Sunshine Coast residents feeling most safe after dark, at 60.6 per cent.
About one third of Cairns residents, 35.7 per cent, felt safe after dark in their area, the lowest ranking across the country.
Suicide rates were also higher in Queensland compared to other states and territories, with Mackay and Cairns recording the largest number of suicides, at 19.5 people and 19.4 per 100,000 people respectively, according to the Social Health Atlas of Australia.
Innovation
Brisbane had among the highest rate of workers in knowledge-intensive industries including IT, communications and financial services, coming in fourth at 13.8 per cent behind Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
Brisbane also boasted the second highest share of households with an active broadband connection at 82.4 per cent and had 45 patent applications per 100,000 people, third behind Sydney and Canberra.
Gold Coast and Tweed Heads recorded the largest number of new businesses that started actively trading in its city, at an entry rate of 17 per cent, ahead of Sydney.
Infrastructure and investment
Only 65 percent of jobs in Brisbane were accessible by car within 30 minutes, compared to Cairns and Mackay which boasted top marks for job accessibility for drivers.
Brisbane was behind eastern coast capitals in taking up walking or cycling to work but was in the top four cities for proportion of people who took public transport to work, at 11.4 per cent, above the national average of 6.1 per cent.
Brisbane drivers also felt the drag of peak hour, with delays almost doubling in peak hour conditions, behind Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart.
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Groom, highlighted in green, within the state of Queensland.
Portrait of Jephcott.
Voters in the Australian  of  are scheduled to go to the polls in a  this week following the resignation of  MP  for family reasons.

Groom is located in the state of Queensland, and is centred around the city of . At the last , the Liberal National Party, Queensland's dominant conservative party, won this seat by over 70% of the , and since the seat's creation in 1984, it has been held by conservative political parties. 

Some political analysts considered this a foregone conclusion, with analyst Kevin Bonham having declared it on his blog as "Australia's most boring by-election", however Bonham noted the size of the swing may have been indicative of the dominant centre left 's general performance in Queensland. There was a 4.2% swing against the Labor Party in the state of Queensland at the previous federal election.

''Wikinews'' spoke to one of the four candidates running in the by-election, Sandra Jephcott, who is running for the  party. Sustainable Australia describes itself as a "independent community movement from the political centre". According to the party's website, Jephcott is a  and farmer, who has completed a veterinary degree from the University of Queensland, as well as a  at  and a Master of Science at . With ''Wikinews'', Jephcott discussed climate change, COVID-19, water security, and foreign ownership.