Officer

25.0% of Officer's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well above the Greater Melbourne average.

5,161 family households lived in Officer; 53.9% were couple families and 15.3% were one-parent families.

51.4% of local families included children under 15. That is well above the Greater Melbourne average.

Officer had 18,503 residents at the 2021 Census.

38.9% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

13.6% were 55 or older. That is about half the Greater Melbourne rate.

Separate houses made up 94.6% of occupied private dwellings in Officer.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 5.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.1% of occupied private dwellings.

13.5% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is about half the Greater Melbourne rate.

58.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

28.5% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Greater Melbourne average.

The average household in Officer had 2.9 people.

One-person households made up 15.8% of occupied homes. That is well below the Greater Melbourne average.

Two-person households represented 28.5%, while 34.4% had four or more usual residents.

21.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is well below the Greater Melbourne average.

57.7% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Greater Melbourne average.

2.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 0.7% walked or cycled.

1.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Greater Melbourne rate.

One-car households formed 31.4% of the total.

67.3% of households had two or more vehicles.

25.7% were at the same address five years earlier, while 74.3% reported a different address.

34.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Greater Melbourne average.

64.4% of residents used only English at home.

31.8% used a language other than English at home.

0.9% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.4% spoke Cantonese and 1.9% spoke Hindi.

34.5% of Officer's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 65.5% was born in Australia.

0.5% of residents were born in China.

8.9% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 83.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 28.7% of ancestry responses in Officer.

Australian ancestry made up 28.0% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 2.2% of responses.

21.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Greater Melbourne average.

Managers accounted for 11.2% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 14.3%.

Health care and social assistance employed 15.6% of workers, and education and training employed 8.6%.

The labour-force participation rate was 74.8%, compared with 64.1% across Greater Melbourne.

45.9% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 21.0% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.4%, compared with 5.3% across Greater Melbourne.

68.0% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.4% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.4% reported asthma, 4.9% arthritis and 3.7% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

26.5% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Greater Melbourne average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 10.9% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 19.8%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 30.8%.

Median household income was $2,125 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,000.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $396 per week.

Working from home was 21.8% in Officer, compared with 28.8% across Greater Melbourne.

Outright ownership was 13.5% locally and 30.7% across Greater Melbourne. That is about half the Greater Melbourne rate.

Renting accounted for 28.5% in Officer, against 31.1% across Greater Melbourne.