Long Gully

18.3% of Long Gully's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

843 family households lived in Long Gully; 27.8% were couple families and 33.2% were one-parent families.

39.0% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Long Gully had 3,420 residents at the 2021 Census.

25.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

31.8% were 55 or older. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Separate houses made up 91.8% of occupied private dwellings in Long Gully.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 6.1% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.8% of occupied private dwellings.

28.5% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

27.2% were buying their home with a mortgage.

44.3% rented their home. That is about twice the Rest of Vic. rate.

The average household in Long Gully had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 36.3% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Two-person households represented 33.1%, while 15.3% had four or more usual residents.

9.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

66.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

1.2% used only a train, tram or bus, while 3.2% walked or cycled.

9.5% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about twice the Rest of Vic. rate.

One-car households formed 42.9% of the total.

48.2% of households had two or more vehicles.

62.3% were at the same address five years earlier, while 37.7% reported a different address.

9.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

82.5% of residents used only English at home.

7.0% used a language other than English at home.

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

9.7% of Long Gully's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 90.3% was born in Australia.

0.2% of residents were born in China.

0.6% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 85.2%.

English ancestry accounted for 39.2% of ancestry responses in Long Gully.

Australian ancestry made up 39.6% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.9% of responses.

14.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Managers accounted for 7.0% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 8.2%.

Health care and social assistance employed 21.0% of workers, and education and training employed 6.3%.

The labour-force participation rate was 46.8%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

22.6% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 17.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 8.0%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

43.9% reported no selected long-term health condition.

17.9% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

13.3% reported asthma, 13.5% arthritis and 6.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.2% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.2% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.8%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 40.1%.

Median household income was $989 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,117.

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

Working from home was 9.2% in Long Gully, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 28.5% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

Renting accounted for 44.3% in Long Gully, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..