Puckapunyal

24.5% of Puckapunyal's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

214 family households lived in Puckapunyal; 65.4% were couple families and 2.3% were one-parent families.

64.0% of local families included children under 15. That is about twice the Rest of Vic. rate.

Puckapunyal had 1,108 residents at the 2021 Census.

41.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

1.4% were 55 or older. That is about half the Rest of Vic. rate.

Separate houses made up 99.6% of occupied private dwellings in Puckapunyal.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 2.6% of occupied private dwellings.

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

0.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is about half the Rest of Vic. rate.

2.1% were buying their home with a mortgage.

97.9% rented their home. That is about twice the Rest of Vic. rate.

The average household in Puckapunyal had 3.2 people.

One-person households made up 6.4% of occupied homes. That is about half the Rest of Vic. rate.

Two-person households represented 29.2%, while 41.6% had four or more usual residents.

9.3% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

51.4% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 26.9% walked or cycled.

2.2% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of Vic. rate.

One-car households formed 26.3% of the total.

74.6% of households had two or more vehicles.

8.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 91.4% reported a different address.

11.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

89.4% of residents used only English at home.

4.8% used a language other than English at home.

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

11.5% of Puckapunyal's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 88.5% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.5% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 88.7%.

English ancestry accounted for 37.4% of ancestry responses in Puckapunyal.

Australian ancestry made up 49.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.1% of responses.

12.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Managers accounted for 19.1% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 7.7%.

Health care and social assistance employed 5.7% of workers, and education and training employed 2.9%.

The labour-force participation rate was 83.6%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

68.3% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 10.1% worked part time.

Unemployment was 1.7%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

74.4% reported no selected long-term health condition.

5.7% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

6.3% reported asthma, 3.2% arthritis and 0.5% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

17.9% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 4.5% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 16.4%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 41.1%.

Median household income was $2,510 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,714.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $265 per week.

Working from home was 9.3% in Puckapunyal, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 0.0% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is about half the Rest of Vic. rate.

Renting accounted for 97.9% in Puckapunyal, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..