Mount Beauty

15.2% of Mount Beauty's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

230 family households lived in Mount Beauty; 28.3% were couple families and 15.7% were one-parent families.

33.5% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

Mount Beauty had 910 residents at the 2021 Census.

21.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

43.1% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Separate houses made up 96.6% of occupied private dwellings in Mount Beauty.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 2.5% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.7% of occupied private dwellings.

44.4% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

28.4% were buying their home with a mortgage.

27.2% rented their home. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

The average household in Mount Beauty had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 41.4% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Two-person households represented 36.7%, while 13.2% had four or more usual residents.

10.0% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

52.2% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 13.2% walked or cycled.

7.5% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

One-car households formed 46.3% of the total.

45.3% of households had two or more vehicles.

59.2% were at the same address five years earlier, while 40.8% reported a different address.

16.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

86.9% of residents used only English at home.

6.7% used a language other than English at home.

0.7% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

16.5% of Mount Beauty's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 83.5% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.4% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 88.2%.

English ancestry accounted for 39.0% of ancestry responses in Mount Beauty.

Australian ancestry made up 39.8% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.5% of responses.

19.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

Managers accounted for 11.1% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 6.3%.

Health care and social assistance employed 15.6% of workers, and education and training employed 14.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 49.7%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

21.3% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 23.1% worked part time.

Unemployment was 1.3%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

53.6% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.4% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.5% reported asthma, 12.5% arthritis and 3.5% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

23.0% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.7% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.8%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 35.4%.

Median household income was $994 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $928.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $270 per week.

Working from home was 10.0% in Mount Beauty, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 44.4% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Renting accounted for 27.2% in Mount Beauty, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..