Spring Gully

17.7% of Spring Gully's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Vic..

827 family households lived in Spring Gully; 39.4% were couple families and 17.3% were one-parent families.

37.0% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

Spring Gully had 3,092 residents at the 2021 Census.

21.2% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

38.0% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

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

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 11.2% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.2% of occupied private dwellings.

43.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

35.8% were buying their home with a mortgage.

21.1% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

The average household in Spring Gully had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 33.5% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Two-person households represented 33.1%, while 20.2% had four or more usual residents.

17.7% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

60.4% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

0.4% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.7% walked or cycled.

6.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

One-car households formed 37.9% of the total.

56.3% of households had two or more vehicles.

63.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 36.1% reported a different address.

8.1% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

92.2% of residents used only English at home.

3.6% used a language other than English at home.

0.2% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

8.1% of Spring Gully's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 91.9% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

0.9% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 92.9%.

English ancestry accounted for 45.3% of ancestry responses in Spring Gully.

Australian ancestry made up 39.2% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.4% of responses.

30.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Managers accounted for 11.9% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.8%.

Health care and social assistance employed 19.9% of workers, and education and training employed 13.9%.

The labour-force participation rate was 58.9%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

30.8% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 22.2% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.9%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

53.4% reported no selected long-term health condition.

12.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.3% reported asthma, 12.5% arthritis and 4.3% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

27.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well above the Rest of Vic. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 8.1% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 17.0%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 28.9%.

Median household income was $1,543 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,454.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $290 per week.

Working from home was 17.7% in Spring Gully, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 43.1% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

Renting accounted for 21.1% in Spring Gully, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..