The Hills Shire (A)

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 169,872 people in The Hills Shire (A) of these 49.4% were male and 50.6% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.4% of the population.

The median age of people in The Hills Shire (A) was 38 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 21.4% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 11.6% of the population.

Of people in The Hills Shire (A) aged 15 years and over, 61.1% were married and 7.2% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in The Hills Shire (A) was 50 years and the median age of people never married was 22 years.

In The Hills Shire (A), of people aged 15 years and over, 61.3% of people were in a registered marriage and 4.2% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in The Hills Shire (A) was 50 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 40 years.

In The Hills Shire (A) 32.4% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 30.1% were in primary school, 25.6% in secondary school and 23.5% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in The Hills Shire (A) were Australian 22.1%, English 21.5%, Chinese 8.5%, Irish 6.5% and Scottish 5.4%.

In The Hills Shire (A), 64.4% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 3.6%, England 3.6%, India 2.5%, Hong Kong (SAR of China) 1.7% and Korea, Republic of (South) 1.7%.

In The Hills Shire (A), 41.4% of people had both parents born in Australia and 46.6% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in The Hills Shire (A) were Catholic 31.4%, Anglican 18.5%, No Religion 15.7%, Uniting Church 4.2% and Hinduism 3.1%.

In The Hills Shire (A) 68.9% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Cantonese 4.4%, Mandarin 3.9%, Korean 2.1%, Arabic 1.9% and Hindi 1.3%.

Employment

There were 91,134 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in The Hills Shire (A). Of these 62.3% were employed full time, 28.5% were employed part-time and 4.2% were unemployed.

Of employed people in The Hills Shire (A), 11.0% worked 1 to 15 hours, 9.7% worked 16 to 24 hours and 50.0% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in The Hills Shire (A) was 43 years and for people who were employed part-time was 41 years.

The most common occupations in The Hills Shire (A) included Professionals 28.1%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 17.4%, Managers 17.3%, Technicians and Trades Workers 11.1%, Sales Workers 9.8%, Community and Personal Service Workers 7.1%, Labourers 4.5% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 3.2%.

Of the employed people in The Hills Shire (A), the most common responses for industry of employment included School Education 5.5%, Hospitals 3.3%, Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaway Food Services 3.2%, Computer System Design and Related Services 3.0% and Legal and Accounting Services 2.7%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in The Hills Shire (A) was $719.

In The Hills Shire (A), on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 63.8%, Bus 7.4%, Car, as passenger 4.1%, Walked only 1.3% and Train 1.2%. On the day, 12.7% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 68.1% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In The Hills Shire (A), of people aged 15 years and over, 75.8% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 32.8% provided care for children and 11.5% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 19.6% of people did voluntary work through an organisation or a group.

Of people who did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census in The Hills Shire (A), 27.1% worked 5 to 14 hours, 13.4% worked 15 to 29 hours and 10.7% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in The Hills Shire (A), 58.7% were couple families with children, 29.9% were couple families without children and 10.4% were one parent families.

In The Hills Shire (A) 17.1% of single parents were male and 82.9% were female.

Weekly incomes

In The Hills Shire (A), for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $2,924 and those without children was $2,455.

Employment status of couple families

In The Hills Shire (A), of couple families with children, 25.0% had both partners employed full-time, 3.5% had both employed part-time and 23.8% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In The Hills Shire (A), 95.2% of private dwellings were occupied and 4.8% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in The Hills Shire (A), 84.1% were separate houses, 10.7% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 5.0% were flats, units or apartments and 0.1% were other dwellings.

In The Hills Shire (A), of occupied private dwellings 1.3% had 1 bedroom, 7.2% had 2 bedrooms and 28.4% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 3.7. The average household size was 3.1 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in The Hills Shire (A), 36.0% were owned outright, 46.4% were owned with a mortgage and 15.6% were rented.

Household composition

In The Hills Shire (A), of all households, 86.4% were family households, 12.0% were single person households and 1.6% were group households.

In The Hills Shire (A), 11.6% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 25.7% of households had a weekly income of more than $3,000.

Mortgage & rent

Proportions are calculated using all tenure types for occupied private dwellings. This excludes visitor only and other non-classifiable households.

Proportions in this table are calculated by taking the number of households whose rent payments were 30% or more of an imputed income measure and expressing this number as a proportion of the total number of households in an area, including those households which are not renting their dwelling (excluding the small proportion of visitor only and other non-classifiable households). The nature of the income imputation means that the reported proportion may significantly overstate the true proportion. Further information on the method to impute income is available in the income fact sheet.

Proportions in this table are calculated by taking the number of households who own their dwelling, and whose mortgage payments were 30% or more of an imputed income measure and expressing this number as a proportion of the total number of households in an area, including those households which were renting their dwelling (excluding the small proportion of visitor only and other non-classifiable households). The nature of the income imputation means that the reported proportion may significantly overstate the true proportion. Further information on the method to impute income is available in the income fact sheet.

Number of motor vehicles

In The Hills Shire (A), 24.6% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 46.9% had two registered motor vehicles and 24.3% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In The Hills Shire (A), there were 634 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 302 (or 47.6%) were male and 332 (or 52.4%) were female. The median age was 24 years.

Dwelling characteristics

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households. These tables represent occupied private dwellings where at least one Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait islander person was present.

Average number of people per bedroom includes a miscalculation. For more information see the persons per bedroom correction page.

In The Hills Shire (A), for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 3.5, with 1.1 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $1,789.

In The Hills Shire (A), for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $410 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $2,817.