Latrobe

16.7% of Latrobe's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Tas..

1,404 family households lived in Latrobe; 35.5% were couple families and 17.5% were one-parent families.

33.7% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Tas. average.

Latrobe had 5,030 residents at the 2021 Census.

23.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

36.8% were 55 or older. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Tas..

Separate houses made up 92.8% of occupied private dwellings in Latrobe.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 5.9% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.1% of occupied private dwellings.

36.7% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat below the Rest of Tas. average.

35.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

28.3% rented their home. That is somewhat above the Rest of Tas. average.

The average household in Latrobe had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 29.5% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of Tas. average.

Two-person households represented 38.5%, while 19.0% had four or more usual residents.

5.1% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of Tas. average.

73.3% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Rest of Tas. average.

0.7% used only a train, tram or bus, while 3.0% walked or cycled.

4.8% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Tas. average.

One-car households formed 36.4% of the total.

58.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

55.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 44.1% reported a different address.

9.4% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Tas. average.

90.3% of residents used only English at home.

4.8% used a language other than English at home.

0.3% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

9.4% of Latrobe's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 90.6% was born in Australia.

0.1% of residents were born in China.

0.4% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 90.9%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.2% of ancestry responses in Latrobe.

Australian ancestry made up 46.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.4% of responses.

12.3% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Tas. average.

Managers accounted for 11.4% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 9.9%.

Health care and social assistance employed 17.0% of workers, and education and training employed 7.4%.

The labour-force participation rate was 54.8%, compared with 55.7% across Rest of Tas..

30.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 18.2% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.6%, compared with 5.6% across Rest of Tas..

51.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

10.8% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.9% reported asthma, 14.7% arthritis and 6.5% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Tas. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 4.2% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 11.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 50.4%.

Median household income was $1,173 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,300.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $250 per week.

Working from home was 5.1% in Latrobe, compared with 7.9% across Rest of Tas..

Outright ownership was 36.7% locally and 41.1% across Rest of Tas.. That is somewhat below the Rest of Tas. average.

Renting accounted for 28.3% in Latrobe, against 25.6% across Rest of Tas..