Round Mountain

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 262 people in Round Mountain of these 46.6% were male and 53.4% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.5% of the population.

The median age of people in Round Mountain was 45 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 16.9% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 7.7% of the population.

Of people in Round Mountain aged 15 years and over, 52.3% were married and 10.1% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Round Mountain was 53 years and the median age of people never married was 22 years.

In Round Mountain, of people aged 15 years and over, 53.5% of people were in a registered marriage and 6.4% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Round Mountain was 52 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 38 years.

In Round Mountain 34.4% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 24.4% were in primary school, 24.4% in secondary school and 25.6% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Round Mountain were English 32.4%, Australian 26.9%, Irish 9.8%, Scottish 8.0% and German 3.7%.

In Round Mountain, 76.9% of people were born in Australia. The only other responses for country of birth were New Zealand 4.6%, England 3.5%, Scotland 1.5% and Germany 1.2%.

In Round Mountain, 72.9% of people had both parents born in Australia and 14.8% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Round Mountain were No Religion 37.5%, Anglican 22.2%, Catholic 18.8%, Presbyterian and Reformed 6.1% and Pentecostal 2.7%.

In Round Mountain 90.4% of people only spoke English at home. The only other response for language spoken at home was Vietnamese 1.1%.

Employment

There were 142 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Round Mountain. Of these 46.5% were employed full time, 36.6% were employed part-time and 7.0% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Round Mountain, 13.5% worked 1 to 15 hours, 10.3% worked 16 to 24 hours and 36.5% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Round Mountain was 49 years and for people who were employed part-time was 42 years.

The most common occupations in Round Mountain included Professionals 18.0%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 14.1%, Technicians and Trades Workers 13.3%, Managers 12.5%, Community and Personal Service Workers 10.2%, Sales Workers 10.2%, Machinery Operators And Drivers 9.4% and Labourers 9.4%.

Of the employed people in Round Mountain, the most common responses for industry of employment included Supermarket and Grocery Stores 8.7%, Residential Care Services 7.9%, Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction 7.1%, School Education 7.1% and Sheep, Beef Cattle and Grain Farming 4.7%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Round Mountain was $485.

In Round Mountain, on the day of the Census, the only responses for methods of travel to work for employed people were Car, as driver 68.8%, Car, as passenger 5.5%, Truck 4.7% and Other 2.3%. On the day, 0.0% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 71.4% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Round Mountain, of people aged 15 years and over, 74.0% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 29.2% provided care for children and 16.5% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 21.7% 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 Round Mountain, 29.7% worked 5 to 14 hours, 13.7% worked 15 to 29 hours and 8.7% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Round Mountain, 45.5% were couple families with children, 37.9% were couple families without children and 9.1% were one parent families.

In Round Mountain 27.3% of single parents were male and 72.7% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Round Mountain, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $2,312 and those without children was $1,833.

Employment status of couple families

In Round Mountain, of couple families with children, 20.0% had both partners employed full-time, 6.7% had both employed part-time and 20.0% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Round Mountain, 90.2% of private dwellings were occupied and 9.8% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Round Mountain, 96.8% were separate houses, 3.2% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 0.0% were flats, units or apartments and 0.0% were other dwellings.

In Round Mountain, of occupied private dwellings 7.7% had 1 bedroom, 13.2% had 2 bedrooms and 46.2% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 3.2. The average household size was 2.5 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Round Mountain, 37.0% were owned outright, 29.3% were owned with a mortgage and 28.3% were rented.

Household composition

In Round Mountain, of all households, 67.0% were family households, 28.6% were single person households and 4.4% were group households.

In Round Mountain, 25.9% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 3.5% 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 Round Mountain, 29.3% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 38.0% had two registered motor vehicles and 26.1% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Round Mountain, there were 9 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 9 (or 100.0%) were male and 0 (or 0.0%) were female. The median age was 48 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 Round Mountain, 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 $500.

In Round Mountain, 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.