Basket Range

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 374 people in Basket Range of these 53.7% were male and 46.3% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.8% of the population.

The median age of people in Basket Range was 44 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 20.3% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 12.0% of the population.

Of people in Basket Range aged 15 years and over, 61.3% were married and 8.0% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Basket Range was 51 years and the median age of people never married was 29 years.

In Basket Range, of people aged 15 years and over, 61.0% of people were in a registered marriage and 9.2% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Basket Range was 51 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 36 years.

In Basket Range 29.9% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 43.8% were in primary school, 24.1% in secondary school and 24.1% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Basket Range were English 29.9%, Australian 28.8%, Scottish 10.0%, Irish 7.7% and German 6.2%.

In Basket Range, 82.1% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 6.4%, Germany 1.9%, Italy 1.3%, Scotland 1.1% and United States of America 1.1%.

In Basket Range, 58.9% of people had both parents born in Australia and 22.7% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Basket Range were No Religion 40.6%, Catholic 13.6%, Uniting Church 9.9%, Anglican 8.0% and Baptist 5.9%.

In Basket Range 95.2% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Swedish 1.1%, Italian 1.1%, Mandarin 1.1%, Dutch 0.8% and Hungarian 0.8%.

Employment

There were 217 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Basket Range. Of these 54.8% were employed full time, 30.9% were employed part-time and 5.5% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Basket Range, 14.9% worked 1 to 15 hours, 9.1% worked 16 to 24 hours and 43.8% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Basket Range was 47 years and for people who were employed part-time was 45 years.

The most common occupations in Basket Range included Professionals 30.6%, Managers 20.9%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 13.1%, Technicians and Trades Workers 12.6%, Community and Personal Service Workers 6.3%, Labourers 6.3%, Sales Workers 5.3% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 2.9%.

Of the employed people in Basket Range, the most common responses for industry of employment included School Education 8.7%, Hospitals 7.7%, Fruit and Tree Nut Growing 6.8%, Tertiary Education 4.3% and Building Installation Services 2.9%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Basket Range was $740.

In Basket Range, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 62.8%, Walked only 5.8%, Truck 2.9%, Car, as passenger 2.4% and Bus, car as driver 2.4%. On the day, 5.9% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 66.7% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Basket Range, of people aged 15 years and over, 87.8% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 35.5% provided care for children and 10.8% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 40.6% 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 Basket Range, 35.8% worked 5 to 14 hours, 16.6% worked 15 to 29 hours and 13.9% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Basket Range, 53.6% were couple families with children, 40.0% were couple families without children and 6.4% were one parent families.

In Basket Range 50.0% of single parents were male and 50.0% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Basket Range, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $2,449 and those without children was $1,750.

Employment status of couple families

In Basket Range, of couple families with children, 21.8% had both partners employed full-time, 5.0% had both employed part-time and 22.8% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Basket Range, 84.9% of private dwellings were occupied and 15.1% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Basket Range, 100.0% were separate houses, 0.0% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 0.0% were flats, units or apartments and 0.0% were other dwellings.

In Basket Range, of occupied private dwellings 4.5% had 1 bedroom, 15.0% had 2 bedrooms and 53.4% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 3.1. The average household size was 2.8 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Basket Range, 48.9% were owned outright, 32.3% were owned with a mortgage and 16.5% were rented.

Household composition

In Basket Range, of all households, 82.2% were family households, 14.8% were single person households and 3.0% were group households.

In Basket Range, 12.7% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 11.1% 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 Basket Range, 18.5% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 45.9% had two registered motor vehicles and 33.3% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Basket Range, 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 40 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 Basket Range, 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 $350.

In Basket Range, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $600 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $0.