Numurkah

15.6% of Numurkah's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

1,209 family households lived in Numurkah; 31.5% were couple families and 19.4% were one-parent families.

29.9% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Numurkah had 4,604 residents at the 2021 Census.

20.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

42.3% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Separate houses made up 88.5% of occupied private dwellings in Numurkah.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 10.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.6% of occupied private dwellings.

46.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

31.2% were buying their home with a mortgage.

22.8% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

The average household in Numurkah had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 33.6% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Two-person households represented 37.8%, while 16.7% had four or more usual residents.

8.6% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

69.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

0.3% used only a train, tram or bus, while 5.0% walked or cycled.

5.7% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

One-car households formed 36.6% of the total.

57.6% of households had two or more vehicles.

63.5% were at the same address five years earlier, while 36.5% reported a different address.

7.0% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

88.1% of residents used only English at home.

2.6% used a language other than English at home.

0.2% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.1% spoke Hindi.

7.0% of Numurkah's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 93.0% was born in Australia.

0.1% of residents were born in China.

0.3% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 87.6%.

English ancestry accounted for 42.3% of ancestry responses in Numurkah.

Australian ancestry made up 43.2% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.5% of responses.

15.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Managers accounted for 13.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.5%.

Health care and social assistance employed 17.1% of workers, and education and training employed 7.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 48.3%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

26.9% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.7% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.8%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

45.0% reported no selected long-term health condition.

12.2% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

11.4% reported asthma, 15.5% arthritis and 6.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

13.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of Vic. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.2% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 42.0%.

Median household income was $1,117 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,083.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $210 per week.

Working from home was 8.6% in Numurkah, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 46.0% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Renting accounted for 22.8% in Numurkah, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..