Victoria Park

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 8,539 people in Victoria Park of these 52.0% were male and 48.0% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.6% of the population.

The median age of people in Victoria Park was 32 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 11.3% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 7.8% of the population.

Of people in Victoria Park aged 15 years and over, 39.2% were married and 11.7% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Victoria Park was 39 years and the median age of people never married was 27 years.

In Victoria Park, of people aged 15 years and over, 38.0% of people were in a registered marriage and 12.9% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Victoria Park was 39 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 30 years.

In Victoria Park 32.1% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 11.5% were in primary school, 7.0% in secondary school and 43.2% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Victoria Park were English 21.4%, Australian 16.9%, Chinese 6.4%, Irish 6.3% and Scottish 5.5%.

In Victoria Park, 43.7% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 5.9%, India 5.8%, New Zealand 3.3%, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 2.8% and Malaysia 2.5%.

In Victoria Park, 28.3% of people had both parents born in Australia and 59.9% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Victoria Park were No Religion 26.1%, Catholic 21.1%, Anglican 11.3%, Islam 5.4% and Hinduism 5.1%.

In Victoria Park 59.3% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 3.5%, Indonesian 2.2%, Cantonese 2.2%, Italian 2.0% and Korean 1.5%.

Employment

There were 5,170 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Victoria Park. Of these 64.7% were employed full time, 25.3% were employed part-time and 5.2% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Victoria Park, 8.6% worked 1 to 15 hours, 10.4% worked 16 to 24 hours and 49.4% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Victoria Park was 34 years and for people who were employed part-time was 30 years.

The most common occupations in Victoria Park included Professionals 29.7%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 14.5%, Technicians and Trades Workers 13.4%, Managers 11.1%, Community and Personal Service Workers 9.7%, Labourers 8.3%, Sales Workers 7.4% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 4.8%.

Of the employed people in Victoria Park, the most common responses for industry of employment included Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaway Food Services 6.8%, Architectural, Engineering and Technical Services 5.3%, Hospitals 4.0%, Tertiary Education 3.4% and School Education 3.3%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Victoria Park was $790.

In Victoria Park, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 51.8%, Bus 15.5%, Car, as passenger 5.0%, Walked only 3.6% and Bicycle 2.3%. On the day, 21.3% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 57.1% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Victoria Park, of people aged 15 years and over, 67.3% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 18.6% provided care for children and 6.6% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 13.9% 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 Victoria Park, 27.0% worked 5 to 14 hours, 8.0% worked 15 to 29 hours and 5.7% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Victoria Park, 33.7% were couple families with children, 49.5% were couple families without children and 11.5% were one parent families.

In Victoria Park 16.2% of single parents were male and 83.8% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Victoria Park, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $2,571 and those without children was $2,502.

Employment status of couple families

In Victoria Park, of couple families with children, 28.5% had both partners employed full-time, 4.7% had both employed part-time and 19.1% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Victoria Park, 90.2% of private dwellings were occupied and 9.8% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Victoria Park, 42.9% were separate houses, 23.2% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 33.6% were flats, units or apartments and 0.3% were other dwellings.

In Victoria Park, of occupied private dwellings 14.7% had 1 bedroom, 25.9% had 2 bedrooms and 47.7% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 2.5. The average household size was 2.1 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Victoria Park, 18.3% were owned outright, 25.6% were owned with a mortgage and 53.0% were rented.

Household composition

In Victoria Park, of all households, 56.1% were family households, 33.3% were single person households and 10.6% were group households.

In Victoria Park, 19.5% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 14.4% 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 Victoria Park, 46.0% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 29.8% had two registered motor vehicles and 9.3% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Victoria Park, there were 48 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 21 (or 43.8%) were male and 27 (or 56.2%) were female. The median age was 26 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 Victoria Park, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 2.3, with 1.2 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $1,375.

In Victoria Park, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $340 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $2,285.