Warragul

18.3% of Warragul's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

5,410 family households lived in Warragul; 40.4% were couple families and 15.7% were one-parent families.

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

Warragul had 19,856 residents at the 2021 Census.

25.1% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

33.5% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

Separate houses made up 88.0% of occupied private dwellings in Warragul.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 5.2% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 4.2% of occupied private dwellings.

38.4% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

38.5% were buying their home with a mortgage.

23.1% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

The average household in Warragul had 2.5 people.

One-person households made up 26.7% of occupied homes. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Two-person households represented 36.0%, while 23.0% had four or more usual residents.

14.4% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

63.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

0.6% used only a train, tram or bus, while 2.1% walked or cycled.

4.9% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of Vic..

One-car households formed 34.3% of the total.

60.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

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

14.0% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

88.4% of residents used only English at home.

6.8% used a language other than English at home.

0.8% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.3% spoke Hindi.

14.0% of Warragul's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 86.0% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

1.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 90.0%.

English ancestry accounted for 42.9% of ancestry responses in Warragul.

Australian ancestry made up 39.6% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.2% of responses.

21.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of Vic. average.

Managers accounted for 11.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 12.0%.

Health care and social assistance employed 16.4% of workers, and education and training employed 11.4%.

The labour-force participation rate was 59.3%, compared with 57.4% across Rest of Vic..

32.7% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.2% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.0%, compared with 4.1% across Rest of Vic..

54.0% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.8% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.8% reported asthma, 11.4% arthritis and 5.1% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

21.6% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of Vic. average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 6.3% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 16.6%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 37.7%.

Median household income was $1,563 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,625.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $321 per week.

Working from home was 14.4% in Warragul, compared with 15.1% across Rest of Vic..

Outright ownership was 38.4% locally and 40.9% across Rest of Vic.. That is somewhat below the Rest of Vic. average.

Renting accounted for 23.1% in Warragul, against 24.5% across Rest of Vic..