Heathcote

11.3% of Heathcote's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

788 family households lived in Heathcote; 25.0% were couple families and 13.6% were one-parent families.

21.8% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

Heathcote had 2,962 residents at the 2021 Census.

15.5% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

53.4% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Separate houses made up 94.7% of occupied private dwellings in Heathcote.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 2.4% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.5% of occupied private dwellings.

53.9% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

31.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

14.8% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

The average household in Heathcote had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 35.6% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Two-person households represented 42.8%, while 10.7% had four or more usual residents.

15.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Vic..

63.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

0.3% used only a train, tram or bus, while 2.3% walked or cycled.

3.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

One-car households formed 36.3% of the total.

60.8% of households had two or more vehicles.

64.2% were at the same address five years earlier, while 35.8% reported a different address.

12.1% of residents were born outside Australia. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Vic..

84.3% of residents used only English at home.

3.5% used a language other than English at home.

0.2% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.2% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

12.1% of Heathcote's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 87.9% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

0.1% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 84.7%.

English ancestry accounted for 40.8% of ancestry responses in Heathcote.

Australian ancestry made up 35.8% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.6% of responses.

15.5% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Managers accounted for 13.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 9.9%.

Health care and social assistance employed 15.7% of workers, and education and training employed 5.7%.

The labour-force participation rate was 40.1%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

20.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 14.7% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.1%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

40.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.8% reported asthma, 20.1% arthritis and 7.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

12.5% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.5% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.0%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 37.4%.

Median household income was $946 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,291.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $255 per week.

Working from home was 15.2% in Heathcote, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 53.9% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Renting accounted for 14.8% in Heathcote, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..