Mount Pleasant

16.2% of Mount Pleasant's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

554 family households lived in Mount Pleasant; 31.9% were couple families and 25.6% were one-parent families.

36.5% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

Mount Pleasant had 2,225 residents at the 2021 Census.

29.9% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

25.6% were 55 or older. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

Separate houses made up 84.1% of occupied private dwellings in Mount Pleasant.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 13.2% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 2.4% of occupied private dwellings.

29.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

28.6% were buying their home with a mortgage.

42.4% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

The average household in Mount Pleasant had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 32.7% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Two-person households represented 34.4%, while 16.5% had four or more usual residents.

16.9% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

58.9% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

0.7% used only a train, tram or bus, while 3.1% walked or cycled.

7.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

One-car households formed 43.1% of the total.

49.2% of households had two or more vehicles.

51.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 48.2% reported a different address.

11.9% of residents were born outside Australia. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Vic..

87.0% of residents used only English at home.

7.3% used a language other than English at home.

0.4% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.4% spoke Hindi.

11.9% of Mount Pleasant's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 88.1% was born in Australia.

0.2% of residents were born in China.

1.8% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 88.4%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.5% of ancestry responses in Mount Pleasant.

Australian ancestry made up 37.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.7% of responses.

24.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Managers accounted for 8.2% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.9%.

Health care and social assistance employed 16.8% of workers, and education and training employed 10.6%.

The labour-force participation rate was 60.8%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

30.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 22.3% worked part time.

Unemployment was 7.5%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

51.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

16.8% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

12.7% reported asthma, 10.0% arthritis and 5.3% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

26.3% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 8.6% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.4%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 33.2%.

Median household income was $1,350 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 $280 per week.

Working from home was 16.9% in Mount Pleasant, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 29.0% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

Renting accounted for 42.4% in Mount Pleasant, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..