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SUMMARY CHARACTERISTICS, VICTORIA

As at 30 June 2006, the preliminary Estimated Indigenous Resident Population (ERP) in Victoria was 30,839 (less than 1% of all people in Victoria).

Some key characteristics of the Indigenous population in Victoria, based on 2006 Census usual residence data, are listed below.

• More than half (56%) of Indigenous respondents were under 25 years of age.
• On average there were 3.0 people per Indigenous household.
• An Australian Indigenous language was spoken at home by 1% of Indigenous respondents.
• 27% and 26% of respondents aged 15 years and over stated Year 10 and Year 12 or equivalent respectively as their highest level of schooling.
• 57% of Indigenous respondents aged 15 years and over were in the labour force. Of these respondents, unemployed persons accounted for 16%.
• The most common Occupations reported were Labourers , Technicians and Trade Workers, and Professionals (15%, 14% and 14% respectively).
• The most common Industries of employment reported were Health Care and Social Assistance (15%), Manufacturing (11%), and Retail Trade (9%).
• 54% of Indigenous households were living in rented dwellings and 40% of households were living in dwellings that were owned with or without a mortgage.

Summary Characteristics, Victoria
			Indigenous			Non-Indigenous
			Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
			no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Persons(a)
Estimated Resident Population(b)			15 253	15 586	30 839	2 522 544	2 574 927	5 097 471
Language spoken at home
	English only		13 296	14 225	27 521	. .	. .	. .
	Australian Indigenous Languages		131	154	285	. .	. .	. .
	Other Languages		510	420	930	. .	. .	. .
	Total(c)		13 937	14 799	28 736	. .	. .	. .
Education
	Attending
		Pre-school	398	365	763	39 387	36 593	75 980
		Infants/Primary	2 308	2 320	4 628	199 725	189 172	388 897
		Secondary	1 411	1 478	2 889	162 872	162 473	325 345
		Technical or Further Educational Institution(d)	411	486	897	51 049	49 094	100 143
		University	230	413	643	86 812	109 936	196 748
		Other(e)	496	631	1 127	39 575	48 124	87 699
		Total(c)	5 254	5 693	10 947	579 420	595 392	1 174 812
	Highest year of school completed(f)
		Year 12 or equivalent	1 883	2 456	4 339	820 067	912 037	1 732 105
		Year 11 or equivalent	1 279	1 460	2 737	268 662	272 053	540 719
		Year 10 or equivalent	2 220	2 308	4 527	317 150	301 804	618 953
		Year 9 or equivalent	1 272	1 335	2 610	143 573	137 795	281 369
		Year 8 or below	1 102	1 061	2 160	148 407	176 558	324 971
		Did not go to school	191	136	327	17 590	24 618	42 205
		Total(c)	7 948	8 750	16 701	1 715 453	1 824 863	3 540 323
	Highest non-school qualification(f)
		Postgraduate Degree	70	72	142	61 491	45 891	107 382
		Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate	48	75	123	26 752	46 857	73 609
		Bachelor Degree	323	496	819	223 978	274 782	498 760
		Advanced Diploma and Diploma	334	514	848	124 424	162 084	286 508
		Certificate Level	1 692	1 277	2 969	408 874	192 505	601 379
		Total(c)	2 467	2 434	4 901	845 519	722 119	1 567 638
Work
	Labour force status
		Employed	4 610	3 946	8 555	1 209 740	1 036 470	2 246 204
		Unemployed	848	748	1 600	67 867	59 056	126 923
		Total labour force	5 457	4 693	10 156	1 277 603	1 095 526	2 373 125
		Not in the labour force	3 121	4 593	7 708	500 879	796 427	1 297 309
	Top three industries for Indigenous persons(g)
		Health Care and Social Assistance	302	945	1 247	. .	. .	. .
		Manufacturing	746	235	981	. .	. .	. .
		Retail Trade	295	450	745	. .	. .	. .
	Top three industries for non-Indigenous persons(g)
		Manufacturing	. .	. .	. .	205 298	77 856	283 154
		Retail Trade	. .	. .	. .	112 692	147 730	260 422
		Health Care and Social Assistance	. .	. .	. .	47 739	185 745	233 484
	Top three occupations for Indigenous persons(g)
		Labourers	828	464	1 292	. .	. .	. .
		Technicians and Trades Workers	1 047	192	1 239	. .	. .	. .
		Professionals	515	704	1 219	. .	. .	. .
	Top three occupations for non-Indigenous persons(g)
		Professionals	. .	. .	. .	220 604	248 015	468 619
		Clerical and Administrative Workers	. .	. .	. .	81 590	252 578	334 168
		Technicians and Trades Workers	. .	. .	. .	267 671	47 081	314 752
Mean weekly equivalised household income ($)(h)			. .	. .	498	. .	. .	726
Dwellings
Occupied private dwelling(i)			. .	. .	14 142	. .	. .	1 767 512
Average household size			. .	. .	3.0	. .	. .	2.6
Average number of Children under 15			. .	. .	0.9	. .	. .	0.5
Housing tenure
	Owned outright		. .	. .	1 876	. .	. .	642 235
	Owned with a mortgage		. .	. .	3 791	. .	. .	628 544
	Rented
		Private	. .	. .	4 072	. .	. .	345 783
		State/Territory housing authority	. .	. .	2 770	. .	. .	51 755
		Community housing group	. .	. .	346	. .	. .	7 118
		Other	-	-	270	-	-	14 237
		Landlord type not stated	. .	. .	160	. .	. .	12 518
		Total Rented	. .	. .	7 618	. .	. .	431 411
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Based on place of usual residence.
(b) Estimates at 30 June 2006 are preliminary and subject to revision. See Glossary. Note: Final estimates have now been released and are available in publication 3238.0.55.001 - Experimental Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, Jun 2006.
(c) Excludes persons whose response was not stated.
(d) Includes TAFE Colleges.
(e) Other includes persons who are attending but did not indicate the type of institution.
(f) Persons aged 15 years and over.
(g) Employed persons aged 15 years and over.
(h) Comprises persons in households in which there were no temporarily absent adults and all incomes were fully stated.
(i) Excludes non-classifiable households and visitor only households.
Note: . . not applicable