Yarrabah (S)

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 2,409 people in Yarrabah (S) of these 49.9% were male and 50.1% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 97.3% of the population.

The median age of people in Yarrabah (S) was 22 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 34.4% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 3.2% of the population.

Of people in Yarrabah (S) aged 15 years and over, 16.6% were married and 3.1% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Yarrabah (S) was 47 years and the median age of people never married was 27 years.

In Yarrabah (S), of people aged 15 years and over, 15.6% of people were in a registered marriage and 19.9% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Yarrabah (S) was 46 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 32 years.

In Yarrabah (S) 28.1% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 56.7% were in primary school, 23.3% in secondary school and 3.4% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Yarrabah (S) were Australian Aboriginal 89.3%, Australian 3.2%, Torres Strait Islander 3.1%, English 1.4% and Scottish 0.4%.

In Yarrabah (S), 99.5% of people were born in Australia. There were no other responses for country of birth.

In Yarrabah (S), 98.9% of people had both parents born in Australia and 0.4% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Yarrabah (S) were Anglican 78.7%, No Religion 7.9%, Pentecostal 4.9%, Catholic 2.2% and Jehovah's Witnesses 1.8%.

In Yarrabah (S) 81.7% of people only spoke English at home. The only other responses for language spoken at home were Kriol 15.4%, Other Australian Indigenous Languages, nec 0.7%, Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole) 0.2% and Guugu Yimidhirr 0.1%.

Employment

There were 809 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Yarrabah (S). Of these 23.5% were employed full time, 11.9% were employed part-time and 61.8% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Yarrabah (S), 11.1% worked 1 to 15 hours, 7.8% worked 16 to 24 hours and 29.6% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Yarrabah (S) was 40 years and for people who were employed part-time was 42 years.

The only other responses for occupation in Yarrabah (S) were Community and Personal Service Workers 27.1%, Professionals 19.9%, Labourers 18.3%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 13.7%, Technicians and Trades Workers 7.8%, Managers 5.9% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 3.6%.

Of the employed people in Yarrabah (S), the most common responses for industry of employment included Local Government Administration 30.1%, School Education 15.7%, Civic, Professional and Other Interest Group Services 9.5%, Medical Services 6.5% and Hospitals 5.6%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Yarrabah (S) was $274.

In Yarrabah (S), on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 56.9%, Car, as passenger 16.7%, Walked only 15.4%, Bus 3.9% and Truck 1.0%. On the day, 3.6% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 72.6% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Yarrabah (S), of people aged 15 years and over, 82.8% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 51.5% provided care for children and 14.9% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 11.3% of people did voluntary work through an organisation or a group.

Of people who did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census in Yarrabah (S), 27.8% worked 5 to 14 hours, 9.1% worked 15 to 29 hours and 10.8% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Yarrabah (S), 37.2% were couple families with children, 12.2% were couple families without children and 45.0% were one parent families.

In Yarrabah (S) 12.8% of single parents were male and 87.2% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Yarrabah (S), for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $1,583 and those without children was $1,562.

Employment status of couple families

In Yarrabah (S), of couple families with children, 9.9% had both partners employed full-time, 4.2% had both employed part-time and 3.8% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Yarrabah (S), 96.4% of private dwellings were occupied and 3.6% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Yarrabah (S), 82.2% were separate houses, 0.0% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 8.3% were flats, units or apartments and 9.5% were other dwellings.

In Yarrabah (S), of occupied private dwellings 6.4% had 1 bedroom, 12.4% had 2 bedrooms and 25.7% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 3.2. The average household size was 4.9 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Yarrabah (S), 8.1% were owned outright, 0.0% were owned with a mortgage and 88.1% were rented.

Household composition

In Yarrabah (S), of all households, 89.3% were family households, 10.0% were single person households and 0.7% were group households.

In Yarrabah (S), 21.6% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 0.7% of households had a weekly income of more than $3,000.

Mortgage & rent

Proportions are calculated using all tenure types for occupied private dwellings. This excludes visitor only and other non-classifiable households.

Proportions in this table are calculated by taking the number of households whose rent payments were 30% or more of an imputed income measure and expressing this number as a proportion of the total number of households in an area, including those households which are not renting their dwelling (excluding the small proportion of visitor only and other non-classifiable households). The nature of the income imputation means that the reported proportion may significantly overstate the true proportion. Further information on the method to impute income is available in the income fact sheet.

Proportions in this table are calculated by taking the number of households who own their dwelling, and whose mortgage payments were 30% or more of an imputed income measure and expressing this number as a proportion of the total number of households in an area, including those households which were renting their dwelling (excluding the small proportion of visitor only and other non-classifiable households). The nature of the income imputation means that the reported proportion may significantly overstate the true proportion. Further information on the method to impute income is available in the income fact sheet.

Number of motor vehicles

In Yarrabah (S), 39.8% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 18.3% had two registered motor vehicles and 9.3% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Yarrabah (S), there were 2,338 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 1,157 (or 49.5%) were male and 1,181 (or 50.5%) were female. The median age was 22 years.

Dwelling characteristics

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households. These tables represent occupied private dwellings where at least one Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait islander person was present.

Average number of people per bedroom includes a miscalculation. For more information see the persons per bedroom correction page.

In Yarrabah (S), for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 5, with 1.7 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $974.

In Yarrabah (S), for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $120 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $0.