Baan Baa

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 525 people in Baan Baa of these 52.2% were male and 47.8% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.6% of the population.

The median age of people in Baan Baa was 47 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 21.0% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 13.5% of the population.

Of people in Baan Baa aged 15 years and over, 62.5% were married and 9.2% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Baan Baa was 53 years and the median age of people never married was 26 years.

In Baan Baa, of people aged 15 years and over, 64.6% of people were in a registered marriage and 8.4% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Baan Baa was 53 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 32 years.

In Baan Baa 27.5% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 32.9% were in primary school, 15.4% in secondary school and 15.4% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Baan Baa were Australian 37.9%, English 32.3%, Irish 11.0%, Scottish 7.6% and German 3.1%.

In Baan Baa, 91.6% of people were born in Australia. The only other responses for country of birth were New Zealand 1.1%, England 0.8% and Philippines 0.6%.

In Baan Baa, 89.9% of people had both parents born in Australia and 2.3% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Baan Baa were Anglican 36.2%, Catholic 24.3%, No Religion 10.5%, Presbyterian and Reformed 8.0% and Uniting Church 5.4%.

In Baan Baa 94.2% of people only spoke English at home. There were no other responses for language spoken at home.

Employment

There were 293 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Baan Baa. Of these 69.3% were employed full time, 22.5% were employed part-time and 3.1% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Baan Baa, 7.7% worked 1 to 15 hours, 8.4% worked 16 to 24 hours and 64.6% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Baan Baa was 51 years and for people who were employed part-time was 47 years.

The most common occupations in Baan Baa included Managers 42.9%, Labourers 10.6%, Machinery Operators And Drivers 10.3%, Professionals 8.9%, Technicians and Trades Workers 7.8%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 7.8%, Community and Personal Service Workers 5.7% and Sales Workers 4.6%.

Of the employed people in Baan Baa, the most common responses for industry of employment included Sheep, Beef Cattle and Grain Farming 40.1%, Coal Mining 6.4%, School Education 3.5%, Other Crop Growing 2.8% and Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction 1.8%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Baan Baa was $524.

In Baan Baa, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 50.7%, Walked only 8.5%, Car, as passenger 4.2%, Truck 3.2% and Other 3.2%. On the day, 0.0% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 55.7% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Baan Baa, of people aged 15 years and over, 73.8% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 27.6% provided care for children and 12.9% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 31.5% 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 Baan Baa, 26.9% worked 5 to 14 hours, 13.3% worked 15 to 29 hours and 15.3% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Baan Baa, 37.1% were couple families with children, 53.6% were couple families without children and 9.3% were one parent families.

In Baan Baa 50.0% of single parents were male and 50.0% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Baan Baa, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $1,194 and those without children was $1,325.

Employment status of couple families

In Baan Baa, of couple families with children, 30.5% had both partners employed full-time, 5.0% had both employed part-time and 21.3% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Baan Baa, 80.8% of private dwellings were occupied and 19.2% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Baan Baa, 100.0% were separate houses, 0.0% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 0.0% were flats, units or apartments and 0.0% were other dwellings.

In Baan Baa, of occupied private dwellings 0.0% had 1 bedroom, 11.7% had 2 bedrooms and 41.3% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 3.4. The average household size was 2.5 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Baan Baa, 48.2% were owned outright, 26.7% were owned with a mortgage and 17.4% were rented.

Household composition

In Baan Baa, of all households, 76.5% were family households, 21.4% were single person households and 2.0% were group households.

In Baan Baa, 26.5% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 6.5% 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 Baan Baa, 21.4% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 36.7% had two registered motor vehicles and 35.2% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Baan Baa, there were 23 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 8 (or 34.8%) were male and 15 (or 65.2%) were female. The median age was 7 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 Baan Baa, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 6, with 1 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $741.

In Baan Baa, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $0 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $0.