Welshpool

15.2% of Welshpool's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

90 family households lived in Welshpool; 33.3% were couple families and 15.6% were one-parent families.

30.0% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Welshpool had 361 residents at the 2021 Census.

16.3% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

44.0% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Separate houses made up 97.2% of occupied private dwellings in Welshpool.

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

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

52.2% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

36.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

11.8% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of Vic. rate.

The average household in Welshpool had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 34.8% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Two-person households represented 36.9%, while 18.4% had four or more usual residents.

15.9% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

57.6% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 4.6% walked or cycled.

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

One-car households formed 29.0% of the total.

65.2% of households had two or more vehicles.

64.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 35.2% reported a different address.

11.1% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

86.4% of residents used only English at home.

4.7% used a language other than English at home.

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

11.1% of Welshpool's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 88.9% 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 86.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 38.0% of ancestry responses in Welshpool.

Australian ancestry made up 42.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

7.3% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about half the Rest of Vic. rate.

Managers accounted for 22.5% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.6%.

Health care and social assistance employed 14.6% of workers, and education and training employed 3.3%.

The labour-force participation rate was 52.1%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

25.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 17.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.6%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

48.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

8.3% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

6.1% reported asthma, 15.0% arthritis and 8.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.4% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 1.8% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 17.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 40.4%.

Median household income was $906 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,092.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $220 per week.

Working from home was 15.9% in Welshpool, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 52.2% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Renting accounted for 11.8% in Welshpool, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..