Quarry Hill

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 2,338 people in Quarry Hill of these 48.5% were male and 51.5% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.9% of the population.

The median age of people in Quarry Hill was 34 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 20.0% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 11.5% of the population.

Of people in Quarry Hill aged 15 years and over, 43.9% were married and 13.0% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Quarry Hill was 50 years and the median age of people never married was 23 years.

In Quarry Hill, of people aged 15 years and over, 43.6% of people were in a registered marriage and 11.9% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Quarry Hill was 50 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 31 years.

In Quarry Hill 33.1% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 25.1% were in primary school, 18.3% in secondary school and 29.7% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Quarry Hill were English 31.0%, Australian 27.8%, Irish 12.6%, Scottish 10.0% and German 3.2%.

In Quarry Hill, 87.7% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 1.7%, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 0.4%, New Zealand 0.4%, Scotland 0.4% and Netherlands 0.3%.

In Quarry Hill, 82.0% of people had both parents born in Australia and 8.1% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Quarry Hill were No Religion 29.9%, Catholic 26.4%, Anglican 15.9%, Uniting Church 6.3% and Christian, nfd 3.8%.

In Quarry Hill 93.0% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Italian 0.5%, Thai 0.4%, Mandarin 0.4%, Polish 0.2% and Indonesian 0.2%.

Employment

There were 1,253 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Quarry Hill. Of these 53.1% were employed full time, 36.2% were employed part-time and 4.9% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Quarry Hill, 13.7% worked 1 to 15 hours, 11.5% worked 16 to 24 hours and 37.0% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Quarry Hill was 39 years and for people who were employed part-time was 39 years.

The most common occupations in Quarry Hill included Professionals 28.0%, Technicians and Trades Workers 13.7%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 13.0%, Community and Personal Service Workers 12.2%, Managers 11.4%, Sales Workers 8.9%, Labourers 8.3% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 3.6%.

Of the employed people in Quarry Hill, the most common responses for industry of employment included School Education 7.3%, Hospitals 6.6%, Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaway Food Services 5.7%, Depository Financial Intermediation 3.3% and Tertiary Education 3.1%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Quarry Hill was $605.

In Quarry Hill, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 62.5%, Walked only 7.6%, Car, as passenger 5.9%, Bicycle 2.2% and Bus 1.1%. On the day, 2.5% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 68.5% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Quarry Hill, of people aged 15 years and over, 78.6% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 29.9% 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, 27.3% 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 Quarry Hill, 30.1% worked 5 to 14 hours, 12.9% worked 15 to 29 hours and 9.8% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Quarry Hill, 41.2% were couple families with children, 40.5% were couple families without children and 17.5% were one parent families.

In Quarry Hill 21.4% of single parents were male and 78.6% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Quarry Hill, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $2,150 and those without children was $1,845.

Employment status of couple families

In Quarry Hill, of couple families with children, 18.4% had both partners employed full-time, 7.5% had both employed part-time and 27.6% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Quarry Hill, 90.6% of private dwellings were occupied and 9.4% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Quarry Hill, 87.4% were separate houses, 1.4% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 10.9% were flats, units or apartments and 0.3% were other dwellings.

In Quarry Hill, of occupied private dwellings 3.2% had 1 bedroom, 25.9% had 2 bedrooms and 51.1% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 2.9. The average household size was 2.4 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Quarry Hill, 30.6% were owned outright, 31.6% were owned with a mortgage and 35.3% were rented.

Household composition

In Quarry Hill, of all households, 63.8% were family households, 28.8% were single person households and 7.3% were group households.

In Quarry Hill, 21.0% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 7.2% 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 Quarry Hill, 39.4% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 36.7% had two registered motor vehicles and 14.3% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Quarry Hill, there were 21 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 9 (or 42.9%) were male and 12 (or 57.1%) were female. The median age was 19 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 Quarry Hill, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 2.9, with 1 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $900.

In Quarry Hill, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $260 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,313.