Wallan

24.5% of Wallan's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well above the Greater Melbourne average.

4,158 family households lived in Wallan; 51.5% were couple families and 17.4% were one-parent families.

47.4% of local families included children under 15. That is well above the Greater Melbourne average.

Wallan had 15,004 residents at the 2021 Census.

32.2% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

19.4% were 55 or older. That is well below the Greater Melbourne average.

Separate houses made up 92.6% of occupied private dwellings in Wallan.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 7.2% of occupied private dwellings.

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

19.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well below the Greater Melbourne average.

59.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

21.8% rented their home. That is well below the Greater Melbourne average.

The average household in Wallan had 3.0 people.

One-person households made up 16.1% of occupied homes. That is well below the Greater Melbourne average.

Two-person households represented 30.0%, while 35.3% had four or more usual residents.

15.5% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Greater Melbourne rate.

64.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Greater Melbourne average.

1.2% used only a train, tram or bus, while 0.8% walked or cycled.

1.6% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Greater Melbourne rate.

One-car households formed 25.2% of the total.

73.1% of households had two or more vehicles.

50.2% were at the same address five years earlier, while 49.8% reported a different address.

19.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Greater Melbourne rate.

76.9% of residents used only English at home.

18.5% used a language other than English at home.

0.3% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.2% spoke Cantonese and 1.0% spoke Hindi.

19.5% of Wallan's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 80.5% was born in Australia.

0.2% of residents were born in China.

4.8% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 86.8%.

English ancestry accounted for 32.8% of ancestry responses in Wallan.

Australian ancestry made up 35.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.9% of responses.

13.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about half the Greater Melbourne rate.

Managers accounted for 9.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 13.6%.

Health care and social assistance employed 12.2% of workers, and education and training employed 7.2%.

The labour-force participation rate was 67.7%, compared with 64.1% across Greater Melbourne.

40.3% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 19.6% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.8%, compared with 5.3% across Greater Melbourne.

60.4% reported no selected long-term health condition.

9.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.1% reported asthma, 6.8% arthritis and 4.7% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

17.5% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about half the Greater Melbourne rate.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 6.1% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 18.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 42.7%.

Median household income was $1,914 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,733.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $360 per week.

Working from home was 15.5% in Wallan, compared with 28.8% across Greater Melbourne.

Outright ownership was 19.3% locally and 30.7% across Greater Melbourne. That is well below the Greater Melbourne average.

Renting accounted for 21.8% in Wallan, against 31.1% across Greater Melbourne.