Carool

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 459 people in Carool of these 54.5% were male and 45.5% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 2.2% of the population.

The median age of people in Carool was 42 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 20.7% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 14.6% of the population.

Of people in Carool aged 15 years and over, 55.8% were married and 14.4% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Carool was 55 years and the median age of people never married was 35 years.

In Carool, of people aged 15 years and over, 57.9% of people were in a registered marriage and 9.3% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Carool was 54 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 42 years.

In Carool 36.2% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 25.1% were in primary school, 13.8% in secondary school and 3.6% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Carool were Australian 28.3%, English 27.8%, Irish 10.5%, Scottish 7.9% and Italian 2.7%.

In Carool, 72.5% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were New Zealand 2.0%, Scotland 1.3%, England 1.1%, Barbados 0.7% and Germany 0.7%.

In Carool, 73.9% of people had both parents born in Australia and 13.2% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Carool were No Religion 23.3%, Catholic 20.7%, Anglican 16.3%, Presbyterian and Reformed 6.5% and Buddhism 2.6%.

In Carool 79.6% of people only spoke English at home. The only other responses for language spoken at home were German 1.1% and Polish 1.1%.

Employment

There were 190 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Carool. Of these 44.2% were employed full time, 44.7% were employed part-time and 9.5% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Carool, 16.5% worked 1 to 15 hours, 17.1% worked 16 to 24 hours and 38.8% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Carool was 45 years and for people who were employed part-time was 44 years.

The most common occupations in Carool included Managers 20.9%, Professionals 20.9%, Labourers 14.5%, Technicians and Trades Workers 14.0%, Community and Personal Service Workers 12.8%, Sales Workers 7.0%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 5.2% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 2.9%.

Of the employed people in Carool, the most common responses for industry of employment included Residential Building Construction 7.6%, Adult, Community and Other Education 6.5%, Fruit and Tree Nut Growing 4.7%, Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaway Food Services 4.7% and Clothing, Footwear and Personal Accessory Retailing 4.1%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Carool was $430.

In Carool, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 50.9%, Car, as passenger 6.4%, Walked only 6.4%, Truck 5.3% and Bus, car as passenger 1.8%. On the day, 2.4% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 60.0% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Carool, of people aged 15 years and over, 70.1% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 27.5% provided care for children and 12.5% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 18.1% 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 Carool, 27.9% worked 5 to 14 hours, 17.4% worked 15 to 29 hours and 11.3% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Carool, 43.1% were couple families with children, 43.1% were couple families without children and 11.0% were one parent families.

In Carool 23.1% of single parents were male and 76.9% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Carool, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $2,049 and those without children was $2,083.

Employment status of couple families

In Carool, of couple families with children, 9.0% had both partners employed full-time, 9.0% had both employed part-time and 29.0% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Carool, 85.3% of private dwellings were occupied and 14.7% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Carool, 64.5% were separate houses, 35.5% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 0.0% were flats, units or apartments and 0.0% were other dwellings.

In Carool, of occupied private dwellings 15.3% had 1 bedroom, 22.6% had 2 bedrooms and 39.4% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 2.8. The average household size was 2.7 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Carool, 46.4% were owned outright, 23.2% were owned with a mortgage and 28.3% were rented.

Household composition

In Carool, of all households, 74.3% were family households, 25.7% were single person households and 0.0% were group households.

In Carool, 37.4% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 4.9% 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 Carool, 35.7% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 39.3% had two registered motor vehicles and 19.3% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Carool, there were 12 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 7 (or 58.3%) were male and 5 (or 41.7%) were female. The median age was 35 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 Carool, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 3, with 1 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $100.

In Carool, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $0 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $0.