Portland

15.7% of Portland's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

2,665 family households lived in Portland; 32.3% were couple families and 19.4% were one-parent families.

31.4% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Portland had 10,016 residents at the 2021 Census.

20.3% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

40.5% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Separate houses made up 88.3% of occupied private dwellings in Portland.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 9.5% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.3% of occupied private dwellings.

41.8% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

30.6% were buying their home with a mortgage.

27.6% rented their home. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

The average household in Portland had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 34.1% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Two-person households represented 37.0%, while 15.7% had four or more usual residents.

5.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of Vic. rate.

70.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

0.1% used only a train, tram or bus, while 4.1% walked or cycled.

6.3% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

One-car households formed 38.5% of the total.

55.1% of households had two or more vehicles.

59.3% were at the same address five years earlier, while 40.7% reported a different address.

9.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

90.0% of residents used only English at home.

3.4% used a language other than English at home.

0.1% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.1% spoke Hindi.

9.5% of Portland's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 90.5% 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 90.0%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.4% of ancestry responses in Portland.

Australian ancestry made up 41.7% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.6% of responses.

15.1% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Managers accounted for 8.9% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 9.3%.

Health care and social assistance employed 16.4% of workers, and education and training employed 8.4%.

The labour-force participation rate was 52.1%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

26.4% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 19.0% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.4%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

49.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.9% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.6% reported asthma, 14.8% arthritis and 6.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.6% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.8% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.4%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 45.9%.

Median household income was $1,146 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 $250 per week.

Working from home was 5.8% in Portland, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 41.8% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

Renting accounted for 27.6% in Portland, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..