Mount Pleasant

17.9% of Mount Pleasant's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

288 family households lived in Mount Pleasant; 35.1% were couple families and 13.2% were one-parent families.

33.0% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Mount Pleasant had 1,058 residents at the 2021 Census.

22.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

40.4% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Separate houses made up 91.6% of occupied private dwellings in Mount Pleasant.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 1.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 5.1% of occupied private dwellings.

41.6% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

46.6% were buying their home with a mortgage.

11.8% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

The average household in Mount Pleasant had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 28.4% of occupied homes. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

Two-person households represented 39.1%, while 19.8% had four or more usual residents.

11.5% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Rest of SA average.

63.5% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

1.5% used only a train, tram or bus, while 4.9% walked or cycled.

3.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

One-car households formed 30.5% of the total.

67.7% of households had two or more vehicles.

67.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 32.2% reported a different address.

12.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

88.3% of residents used only English at home.

3.7% used a language other than English at home.

0.5% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

12.7% of Mount Pleasant's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 87.3% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 88.5%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.8% of ancestry responses in Mount Pleasant.

Australian ancestry made up 42.9% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.8% of responses.

13.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Managers accounted for 13.9% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 9.6%.

Health care and social assistance employed 11.1% of workers, and education and training employed 8.1%.

The labour-force participation rate was 55.8%, compared with 54.1% across Rest of SA.

31.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 19.8% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.9%, compared with 4.8% across Rest of SA.

53.3% reported no selected long-term health condition.

10.9% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.9% reported asthma, 12.0% arthritis and 6.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.5% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 16.0%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 42.6%.

Median household income was $1,321 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,420.

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

Working from home was 11.5% in Mount Pleasant, compared with 8.9% across Rest of SA.

Outright ownership was 41.6% locally and 41.6% across Rest of SA. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

Renting accounted for 11.8% in Mount Pleasant, against 26.0% across Rest of SA.