Sale

18.1% of Sale's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

3,742 family households lived in Sale; 36.5% were couple families and 19.0% were one-parent families.

36.4% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

Sale had 14,296 residents at the 2021 Census.

24.2% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

34.8% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

Separate houses made up 84.5% of occupied private dwellings in Sale.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 7.7% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 6.8% of occupied private dwellings.

36.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

29.9% were buying their home with a mortgage.

33.7% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

The average household in Sale had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 33.4% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Two-person households represented 34.7%, while 18.4% had four or more usual residents.

9.3% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

65.6% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

0.2% used only a train, tram or bus, while 6.1% walked or cycled.

7.3% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

One-car households formed 40.2% of the total.

52.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

54.4% were at the same address five years earlier, while 45.6% reported a different address.

12.8% of residents were born outside Australia. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Vic..

87.4% of residents used only English at home.

6.4% used a language other than English at home.

0.5% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.2% spoke Hindi.

12.8% of Sale's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 87.2% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

1.1% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 89.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 40.9% of ancestry responses in Sale.

Australian ancestry made up 42.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.3% of responses.

22.2% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Managers accounted for 12.1% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.2%.

Health care and social assistance employed 18.3% of workers, and education and training employed 9.6%.

The labour-force participation rate was 55.1%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

29.9% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 18.9% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.1%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

52.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

12.6% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.7% reported asthma, 11.6% arthritis and 5.7% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

20.3% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Vic..

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 16.3%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 38.0%.

Median household income was $1,327 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 9.3% in Sale, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 36.3% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Renting accounted for 33.7% in Sale, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..