Mount Clear

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 2,905 people in Mount Clear of these 48.4% were male and 51.6% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.1% of the population.

The median age of people in Mount Clear was 35 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 16.9% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 13.5% of the population.

Of people in Mount Clear aged 15 years and over, 46.3% were married and 11.5% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Mount Clear was 53 years and the median age of people never married was 22 years.

In Mount Clear, of people aged 15 years and over, 46.6% of people were in a registered marriage and 9.5% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Mount Clear was 53 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 31 years.

In Mount Clear 32.9% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 20.6% were in primary school, 19.8% in secondary school and 37.2% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Mount Clear were Australian 30.6%, English 28.6%, Irish 10.6%, Scottish 8.9% and German 3.3%.

In Mount Clear, 85.6% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 2.0%, India 1.0%, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 0.9%, Netherlands 0.7% and Scotland 0.7%.

In Mount Clear, 76.4% of people had both parents born in Australia and 14.0% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Mount Clear were No Religion 28.3%, Catholic 25.7%, Anglican 13.7%, Uniting Church 10.0% and Presbyterian and Reformed 3.4%.

In Mount Clear 90.4% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 0.8%, Punjabi 0.6%, Arabic 0.4%, Russian 0.3% and Persian (excluding Dari) 0.3%.

Employment

There were 1,516 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Mount Clear. Of these 53.7% were employed full time, 33.1% were employed part-time and 7.1% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Mount Clear, 15.8% worked 1 to 15 hours, 10.6% worked 16 to 24 hours and 39.3% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Mount Clear was 39 years and for people who were employed part-time was 33 years.

The most common occupations in Mount Clear included Professionals 24.0%, Technicians and Trades Workers 14.6%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 14.2%, Community and Personal Service Workers 12.1%, Sales Workers 10.5%, Labourers 9.8%, Managers 8.7% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 4.2%.

Of the employed people in Mount Clear, the most common responses for industry of employment included School Education 6.9%, Hospitals 6.7%, Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaway Food Services 5.4%, Tertiary Education 5.0% and Computer System Design and Related Services 4.8%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Mount Clear was $520.

In Mount Clear, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 70.1%, Car, as passenger 4.9%, Walked only 1.2%, Bus 1.1% and Bicycle 1.0%. On the day, 3.0% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 75.5% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Mount Clear, of people aged 15 years and over, 74.0% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 27.7% provided care for children and 12.5% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 22.4% 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 Mount Clear, 26.3% worked 5 to 14 hours, 12.6% worked 15 to 29 hours and 10.9% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Mount Clear, 39.3% were couple families with children, 44.1% were couple families without children and 15.5% were one parent families.

In Mount Clear 18.1% of single parents were male and 81.9% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Mount Clear, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $2,100 and those without children was $1,874.

Employment status of couple families

In Mount Clear, of couple families with children, 20.4% had both partners employed full-time, 3.2% had both employed part-time and 24.6% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Mount Clear, 91.7% of private dwellings were occupied and 8.3% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Mount Clear, 85.4% were separate houses, 13.5% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 1.1% were flats, units or apartments and 0.0% were other dwellings.

In Mount Clear, of occupied private dwellings 4.0% had 1 bedroom, 12.3% had 2 bedrooms and 56.3% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 3.1. The average household size was 2.5 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Mount Clear, 32.5% were owned outright, 32.5% were owned with a mortgage and 32.6% were rented.

Household composition

In Mount Clear, of all households, 67.2% were family households, 23.0% were single person households and 9.8% were group households.

In Mount Clear, 25.4% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 6.4% 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 Mount Clear, 34.7% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 42.0% had two registered motor vehicles and 16.2% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Mount Clear, there were 31 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 21 (or 67.7%) were male and 10 (or 32.3%) were female. The median age was 9 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 Mount Clear, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 3.8, with 1.3 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $1,233.

In Mount Clear, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $240 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $0.