Wallaroo

12.9% of Wallaroo's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

1,019 family households lived in Wallaroo; 22.7% were couple families and 17.5% were one-parent families.

23.6% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of SA average.

Wallaroo had 3,699 residents at the 2021 Census.

15.3% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

53.6% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Separate houses made up 91.0% of occupied private dwellings in Wallaroo.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 7.1% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.4% of occupied private dwellings.

44.9% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of SA average.

23.2% were buying their home with a mortgage.

31.9% rented their home. That is somewhat above the Rest of SA average.

The average household in Wallaroo had 2.1 people.

One-person households made up 33.3% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Two-person households represented 45.1%, while 11.9% had four or more usual residents.

8.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

63.4% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

0.7% used only a train, tram or bus, while 3.7% walked or cycled.

6.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

One-car households formed 42.4% of the total.

51.2% of households had two or more vehicles.

59.7% were at the same address five years earlier, while 40.3% reported a different address.

9.4% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

90.6% of residents used only English at home.

2.7% used a language other than English at home.

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

9.4% of Wallaroo's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 90.6% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.2% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 91.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 45.0% of ancestry responses in Wallaroo.

Australian ancestry made up 45.5% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.5% of responses.

11.5% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Managers accounted for 12.3% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 19.8% of workers, and education and training employed 5.3%.

The labour-force participation rate was 40.1%, compared with 54.1% across Rest of SA.

17.6% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.1% worked part time.

Unemployment was 10.3%, compared with 4.8% across Rest of SA.

44.0% reported no selected long-term health condition.

13.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

11.9% reported asthma, 19.5% arthritis and 9.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

9.8% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 1.8% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 13.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 48.3%.

Median household income was $892 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,169.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $245 per week.

Working from home was 8.2% in Wallaroo, compared with 8.9% across Rest of SA.

Outright ownership was 44.9% locally and 41.6% across Rest of SA. That is somewhat above the Rest of SA average.

Renting accounted for 31.9% in Wallaroo, against 26.0% across Rest of SA.