The Pocket

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 363 people in The Pocket of these 51.5% were male and 48.5% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.3% of the population.

The median age of people in The Pocket was 46 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 21.8% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 13.5% of the population.

Of people in The Pocket aged 15 years and over, 49.3% were married and 15.6% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in The Pocket was 54 years and the median age of people never married was 34 years.

In The Pocket, of people aged 15 years and over, 49.0% of people were in a registered marriage and 10.0% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in The Pocket was 54 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 48 years.

In The Pocket 35.5% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 25.6% were in primary school, 16.3% in secondary school and 17.1% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in The Pocket were English 29.0%, Australian 16.7%, Irish 10.8%, Scottish 8.3% and Indian 4.6%.

In The Pocket, 69.3% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were India 3.9%, England 3.3%, New Zealand 3.3%, United States of America 3.0% and France 0.8%.

In The Pocket, 57.1% of people had both parents born in Australia and 25.8% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in The Pocket were No Religion 33.5%, Catholic 14.8%, Anglican 9.3%, Sikhism 6.6% and Buddhism 3.3%.

In The Pocket 80.7% of people only spoke English at home. The only other responses for language spoken at home were Punjabi 5.2%, Italian 1.1%, Polish 0.8% and Slovak 0.8%.

Employment

There were 170 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in The Pocket. Of these 40.6% were employed full time, 45.9% were employed part-time and 4.7% were unemployed.

Of employed people in The Pocket, 21.3% worked 1 to 15 hours, 12.8% worked 16 to 24 hours and 32.9% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in The Pocket was 52 years and for people who were employed part-time was 44 years.

The most common occupations in The Pocket included Professionals 21.7%, Managers 15.1%, Technicians and Trades Workers 14.5%, Community and Personal Service Workers 13.3%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 12.0%, Labourers 10.2%, Sales Workers 8.4% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 2.4%.

Of the employed people in The Pocket, the most common responses for industry of employment included School Education 9.1%, Road Passenger Transport 4.3%, Mushroom and Vegetable Growing 3.0%, Fruit and Tree Nut Growing 3.0% and Specialised Food Retailing 3.0%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in The Pocket was $393.

In The Pocket, on the day of the Census, the only responses for methods of travel to work for employed people were Car, as driver 53.7%, Walked only 6.1%, Bicycle 2.4% and Car, as passenger 1.8%. 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 55.4% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In The Pocket, of people aged 15 years and over, 77.9% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 26.6% provided care for children and 16.7% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 18.8% 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 The Pocket, 31.1% worked 5 to 14 hours, 17.0% worked 15 to 29 hours and 12.8% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in The Pocket, 38.0% were couple families with children, 45.7% were couple families without children and 16.3% were one parent families.

In The Pocket 20.0% of single parents were male and 80.0% were female.

Weekly incomes

In The Pocket, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $1,583 and those without children was $1,156.

Employment status of couple families

In The Pocket, of couple families with children, 17.1% had both partners employed full-time, 5.3% had both employed part-time and 23.7% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In The Pocket, 89.2% of private dwellings were occupied and 10.8% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in The Pocket, 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 The Pocket, of occupied private dwellings 4.5% had 1 bedroom, 15.2% had 2 bedrooms and 44.7% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 3.1. The average household size was 2.6 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in The Pocket, 47.7% were owned outright, 30.3% were owned with a mortgage and 17.4% were rented.

Household composition

In The Pocket, of all households, 69.9% were family households, 23.3% were single person households and 6.8% were group households.

In The Pocket, 38.1% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 4.2% 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 The Pocket, 33.8% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 40.0% had two registered motor vehicles and 23.8% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In The Pocket, there were 12 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 4 (or 33.3%) were male and 8 (or 66.7%) were female. The median age was 44 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 The Pocket, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 3, with 1 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $700.

In The Pocket, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $0 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $305.