Mount Beauty

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 819 people in Mount Beauty of these 47.7% were male and 52.3% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.5% of the population.

The median age of people in Mount Beauty was 45 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 17.1% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 25.8% of the population.

Of people in Mount Beauty aged 15 years and over, 41.9% were married and 15.6% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Mount Beauty was 56 years and the median age of people never married was 29 years.

In Mount Beauty, of people aged 15 years and over, 41.1% of people were in a registered marriage and 11.4% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Mount Beauty was 58 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 38 years.

In Mount Beauty 24.3% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 20.5% were in primary school, 28.5% in secondary school and 13.0% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Mount Beauty were English 28.3%, Australian 26.3%, Irish 10.5%, Scottish 8.2% and German 5.9%.

In Mount Beauty, 78.8% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 3.7%, Germany 1.8%, New Zealand 1.8%, Scotland 1.1% and Malaysia 0.7%.

In Mount Beauty, 64.6% of people had both parents born in Australia and 21.9% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Mount Beauty were No Religion 37.4%, Catholic 17.2%, Anglican 13.1%, Uniting Church 9.9% and Presbyterian and Reformed 2.9%.

In Mount Beauty 88.9% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included German 1.7%, Italian 1.0%, Mandarin 0.7%, Cantonese 0.6% and Fijian 0.5%.

Employment

There were 334 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Mount Beauty. Of these 44.6% were employed full time, 40.7% were employed part-time and 6.6% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Mount Beauty, 16.3% worked 1 to 15 hours, 12.5% worked 16 to 24 hours and 32.9% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Mount Beauty was 44 years and for people who were employed part-time was 41 years.

The most common occupations in Mount Beauty included Labourers 17.4%, Technicians and Trades Workers 16.4%, Professionals 14.8%, Community and Personal Service Workers 14.1%, Sales Workers 12.5%, Managers 9.3%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 7.4% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 6.8%.

Of the employed people in Mount Beauty, the most common responses for industry of employment included Accommodation 9.0%, School Education 8.7%, Hospitals 8.7%, Supermarket and Grocery Stores 7.7% and Sports and Physical Recreation Activities 4.5%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Mount Beauty was $423.

In Mount Beauty, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 49.4%, Walked only 11.2%, Car, as passenger 6.1%, Bicycle 4.8% and Bus 1.3%. On the day, 1.0% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 56.7% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Mount Beauty, of people aged 15 years and over, 70.4% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 23.3% provided care for children and 14.9% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 28.0% 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 Mount Beauty, 25.4% worked 5 to 14 hours, 16.4% worked 15 to 29 hours and 13.5% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Mount Beauty, 29.8% were couple families with children, 46.2% were couple families without children and 21.6% were one parent families.

In Mount Beauty 15.2% of single parents were male and 84.8% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Mount Beauty, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $1,583 and those without children was $1,583.

Employment status of couple families

In Mount Beauty, of couple families with children, 8.4% had both partners employed full-time, 3.9% had both employed part-time and 16.2% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Mount Beauty, 65.6% of private dwellings were occupied and 34.4% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Mount Beauty, 97.5% were separate houses, 0.8% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 1.7% were flats, units or apartments and 0.0% were other dwellings.

In Mount Beauty, of occupied private dwellings 0.8% had 1 bedroom, 17.3% had 2 bedrooms and 69.1% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 2.9. The average household size was 2 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Mount Beauty, 40.8% were owned outright, 27.2% were owned with a mortgage and 29.2% were rented.

Household composition

In Mount Beauty, of all households, 57.6% were family households, 39.0% were single person households and 3.4% were group households.

In Mount Beauty, 39.2% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 1.2% 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 Mount Beauty, 49.9% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 31.4% had two registered motor vehicles and 5.9% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Mount Beauty, there were 3 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 3 (or 100.0%) were male and 0 (or 0.0%) were female. The median age was 39 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 Mount Beauty, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 0, with 2 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $841.

In Mount Beauty, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $203 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $0.