Melrose

18.4% of Melrose's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

89 family households lived in Melrose; 40.4% were couple families and 7.9% were one-parent families.

33.7% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Melrose had 342 residents at the 2021 Census.

19.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

42.1% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Separate houses made up 97.6% of occupied private dwellings in Melrose.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

57.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

30.2% were buying their home with a mortgage.

12.7% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

The average household in Melrose had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 26.4% of occupied homes. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

Two-person households represented 41.1%, while 27.1% had four or more usual residents.

21.0% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about twice the Rest of SA rate.

49.7% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of SA average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 10.2% walked or cycled.

0.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

One-car households formed 19.5% of the total.

79.7% of households had two or more vehicles.

74.1% were at the same address five years earlier, while 25.9% reported a different address.

5.8% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

90.6% of residents used only English at home.

1.2% used a language other than English at home.

1.5% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

5.8% of Melrose's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 94.2% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 89.8%.

English ancestry accounted for 47.1% of ancestry responses in Melrose.

Australian ancestry made up 41.2% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

13.2% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

Managers accounted for 32.3% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 7.8%.

Health care and social assistance employed 12.6% of workers, and education and training employed 9.6%.

The labour-force participation rate was 60.5%, compared with 54.1% across Rest of SA.

35.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 18.8% worked part time.

Unemployment was 1.8%, compared with 4.8% across Rest of SA.

57.6% reported no selected long-term health condition.

8.2% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.0% reported asthma, 9.9% arthritis and 0.9% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

11.5% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.6% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 13.3%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 46.7%.

Median household income was $1,416 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,230.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $180 per week.

Working from home was 21.0% in Melrose, compared with 8.9% across Rest of SA.

Outright ownership was 57.1% locally and 41.6% across Rest of SA. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Renting accounted for 12.7% in Melrose, against 26.0% across Rest of SA.