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About a week ago the first tranche of census data came out. We’ve taken a look at what the data shows for all of Australia and for Victoria, so now is the time to go one step further and find out what the data shows closest to home.
Through this interactive, you can see what census data from your suburb shows and see how your area compares to the rest of Australia in aspects such as income, religion, middle age, home ownership and more.
Just type the name of your suburb in the following search box:
THE OLDEST AND YOUNG SUBURBUS
The median age in Victoria is 38 years.
On average, Victorians are slightly older than residents of the Northern Territory (33) and ACT (35), but are younger than those in South Australia (41) and Tasmania (42).
The youngest suburbs are Parkville, Clayton North and Melbourne CBD – North, where the average age is 26 years. All of these areas are home to many students attending nearby universities.
In the suburban suburbs of Tarneit, Clyde and Wyndham Vale, where young families have come together over the past decade, the average age is 29 years.
The suburbs with the highest average age are next to the water. In Paynesville, on the coast of Gippsland, and Point Lonsdale, the average age is 61 years.
HOUSING INCOME AND COSTS
The suburb with the highest individual incomes is East Melbourne, where half the adult population earns at least $ 1532 a week. The suburb with the lowest is Campbellfield / Coolaroo with $ 437 a week. For all of Victoria, the average individual weekly income is $ 803.
Average mortgage repayments are highest in Brighton, Brighton East, Surrey Hills, Toorak and Balwyn North. In all of these areas, the average monthly refund is more than $ 3,000. That compares to $ 1859 for all of Victoria.
Toorak has one of the highest average monthly mortgage repayments. Credit: Penny Stephens
The suburb with the most expensive average rent is in Beaumaris Bay. where half of the tenants ’homes pay at least $ 612 a week. The state average is $ 370.
OWNER OF THE HOUSE
Across the state, 33.2% of private households are occupied by people who own them, 37.3% by people on mortgages and 29.5% by people on rent.
Occupant landlords account for the highest percentage of homes in Point Lonsdale (62.1%), while the highest percentage of rental property is in Melbourne CBD – North (80.3%).
The fast-growing suburb of Tarneit. Credit: Paul Jeffers
Tarneit, Truganina and Clyde North have the lowest percentage of people who own direct property: these are newer areas with homes built over the last decade or so, where young families who have many years left with their mortgages live. .
RELIGION
One of the key findings of the census was how there had been a considerable decrease in the proportion of Australian Christians and an increase in the percentage ticking the “no religion” box.
In Victoria, 43.8% are Christians and 42.1% have no religion, but those percentages vary by state.
There is a ring of suburbs surrounding Melbourne Airport which has the highest percentage of Christian people, over two-thirds. This “ring of the Bible” includes Taylors Lakes, Keilor, Keilor East, and Avondale Heights.
Meanwhile, more than two-thirds of census respondents in Fitzroy North, Brunswick, Northcote and Carlton North are atheists or agnostics. In the Victoria region, 68.6% of Castlemaine do not follow religion.
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In Dandenong, 54.3% of the population is Muslim, 34.7% in Springvale South are Buddhist and 44.8% in Caulfield North are Jewish. In Tarneit North, 31% of the population is Hindu and more than a fifth are Sikhs.
HEALTH PROBLEMS
For the first time, the 2021 census allowed people to specify if they had any long-term health conditions.
Paynesville had the highest percentage of people with arthritis, cancer and heart disease, but this area also has a larger population than the rest of the state.
The most common health problem in Victoria was a mental illness such as depression or anxiety, which affected 571,000 people, or 9.5% of census respondents.
Regional areas reported the highest rates of mental health problems. In Sevastopol, outside Ballarat, 18.1% reported a mental health problem, while in Norlane, outside Geelong, the percentage was 17.2 and in Bendigo 15.3%.
In the metropolitan area, the population of the Brunswick area recorded the highest rates of mental health problems, at around 15%.
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