Tea Tree Gully

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 3,124 people in Tea Tree Gully of these 49.5% were male and 50.5% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.0% of the population.

The median age of people in Tea Tree Gully was 41 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 18.2% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 16.9% of the population.

Of people in Tea Tree Gully aged 15 years and over, 55.7% were married and 9.8% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Tea Tree Gully was 55 years and the median age of people never married was 26 years.

In Tea Tree Gully, of people aged 15 years and over, 56.4% of people were in a registered marriage and 8.9% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Tea Tree Gully was 54 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 37 years.

In Tea Tree Gully 28.0% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 35.5% were in primary school, 19.6% in secondary school and 22.4% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Tea Tree Gully were English 33.0%, Australian 27.0%, Scottish 7.5%, German 7.0% and Irish 6.7%.

In Tea Tree Gully, 74.5% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 12.1%, Scotland 1.2%, Germany 0.8%, Italy 0.6% and Netherlands 0.6%.

In Tea Tree Gully, 54.5% of people had both parents born in Australia and 30.9% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Tea Tree Gully were No Religion 29.1%, Catholic 18.0%, Anglican 15.7%, Uniting Church 11.3% and Lutheran 3.8%.

In Tea Tree Gully 92.0% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Italian 0.9%, German 0.4%, Greek 0.4%, Mandarin 0.4% and Polish 0.3%.

Employment

There were 1,643 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Tea Tree Gully. Of these 57.9% were employed full time, 31.3% were employed part-time and 5.1% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Tea Tree Gully, 11.5% worked 1 to 15 hours, 9.5% worked 16 to 24 hours and 38.9% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Tea Tree Gully was 43 years and for people who were employed part-time was 40 years.

The most common occupations in Tea Tree Gully included Professionals 19.4%, Technicians and Trades Workers 16.7%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 14.8%, Managers 12.0%, Community and Personal Service Workers 11.8%, Labourers 9.1%, Sales Workers 8.9% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 5.6%.

Of the employed people in Tea Tree Gully, the most common responses for industry of employment included School Education 5.1%, Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaway Food Services 3.8%, Hospitals 3.3%, State Government Administration 3.1% and Residential Care Services 2.7%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Tea Tree Gully was $609.

In Tea Tree Gully, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 66.6%, Bus 7.8%, Car, as passenger 4.4%, Bus, car as driver 1.1% and Walked only 1.0%. On the day, 9.9% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 71.3% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Tea Tree Gully, of people aged 15 years and over, 79.3% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 32.5% provided care for children and 12.9% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 20.9% 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 Tea Tree Gully, 29.9% worked 5 to 14 hours, 14.5% worked 15 to 29 hours and 12.8% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Tea Tree Gully, 44.9% were couple families with children, 41.5% were couple families without children and 12.2% were one parent families.

In Tea Tree Gully 21.4% of single parents were male and 78.6% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Tea Tree Gully, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $2,323 and those without children was $2,028.

Employment status of couple families

In Tea Tree Gully, of couple families with children, 19.0% had both partners employed full-time, 3.2% had both employed part-time and 23.4% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Tea Tree Gully, 93.1% of private dwellings were occupied and 6.9% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Tea Tree Gully, 91.2% were separate houses, 8.2% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 0.6% were flats, units or apartments and 0.0% were other dwellings.

In Tea Tree Gully, of occupied private dwellings 1.6% had 1 bedroom, 10.3% had 2 bedrooms and 59.6% 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 Tea Tree Gully, 38.6% were owned outright, 45.5% were owned with a mortgage and 13.5% were rented.

Household composition

In Tea Tree Gully, of all households, 76.3% were family households, 21.8% were single person households and 1.9% were group households.

In Tea Tree Gully, 19.6% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 8.4% 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 Tea Tree Gully, 35.4% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 40.2% had two registered motor vehicles and 18.3% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Tea Tree Gully, there were 30 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 17 (or 56.7%) were male and 13 (or 43.3%) were female. The median age was 33 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 Tea Tree Gully, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 2.4, with 1 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $900.

In Tea Tree Gully, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $260 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $0.