Eight Mile Plains

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 13,379 people in Eight Mile Plains of these 49.7% were male and 50.3% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.8% of the population.

The median age of people in Eight Mile Plains was 32 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 16.3% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 9.5% of the population.

Of people in Eight Mile Plains aged 15 years and over, 51.6% were married and 7.7% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Eight Mile Plains was 47 years and the median age of people never married was 24 years.

In Eight Mile Plains, of people aged 15 years and over, 50.8% of people were in a registered marriage and 6.3% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Eight Mile Plains was 48 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 31 years.

In Eight Mile Plains 31.7% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 20.8% were in primary school, 17.0% in secondary school and 39.2% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Eight Mile Plains were Chinese 17.7%, English 16.4%, Australian 15.7%, Irish 5.7% and Korean 5.5%.

In Eight Mile Plains, 48.0% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 7.5%, Korea, Republic of (South) 5.9%, Taiwan 4.3%, New Zealand 4.1% and India 3.7%.

In Eight Mile Plains, 30.4% of people had both parents born in Australia and 61.1% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Eight Mile Plains were No Religion 22.2%, Catholic 19.6%, Anglican 9.1%, Buddhism 6.5% and Uniting Church 4.8%.

In Eight Mile Plains 52.0% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 11.9%, Korean 6.6%, Cantonese 6.5%, Greek 1.6% and Punjabi 1.6%.

Employment

There were 7,207 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Eight Mile Plains. Of these 58.4% were employed full time, 29.8% were employed part-time and 6.8% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Eight Mile Plains, 10.9% worked 1 to 15 hours, 10.7% worked 16 to 24 hours and 41.3% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Eight Mile Plains was 39 years and for people who were employed part-time was 34 years.

The most common occupations in Eight Mile Plains included Professionals 26.8%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 16.8%, Technicians and Trades Workers 12.3%, Managers 11.7%, Sales Workers 9.3%, Labourers 8.8%, Community and Personal Service Workers 8.1% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 4.6%.

Of the employed people in Eight Mile Plains, the most common responses for industry of employment included Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaway Food Services 6.6%, Hospitals 4.8%, School Education 4.0%, Legal and Accounting Services 2.9% and Tertiary Education 2.8%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Eight Mile Plains was $575.

In Eight Mile Plains, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 57.0%, Bus 14.5%, Car, as passenger 6.1%, Walked only 1.7% and Bus, car as driver 1.1%. On the day, 18.2% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 63.5% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Eight Mile Plains, of people aged 15 years and over, 68.8% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 26.4% provided care for children and 8.8% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 18.6% 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 Eight Mile Plains, 24.9% worked 5 to 14 hours, 11.3% worked 15 to 29 hours and 8.2% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Eight Mile Plains, 48.9% were couple families with children, 36.4% were couple families without children and 12.2% were one parent families.

In Eight Mile Plains 14.2% of single parents were male and 85.8% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Eight Mile Plains, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $2,512 and those without children was $2,118.

Employment status of couple families

In Eight Mile Plains, of couple families with children, 23.4% had both partners employed full-time, 4.6% had both employed part-time and 18.7% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Eight Mile Plains, 96.0% of private dwellings were occupied and 4.0% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Eight Mile Plains, 70.3% were separate houses, 21.2% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 0.1% were flats, units or apartments and 8.3% were other dwellings.

In Eight Mile Plains, of occupied private dwellings 3.8% had 1 bedroom, 4.7% had 2 bedrooms and 39.6% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 3.5. The average household size was 2.9 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Eight Mile Plains, 32.1% were owned outright, 33.1% were owned with a mortgage and 32.5% were rented.

Household composition

In Eight Mile Plains, of all households, 76.6% were family households, 16.7% were single person households and 6.6% were group households.

In Eight Mile Plains, 17.9% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 15.3% 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 Eight Mile Plains, 35.4% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 39.4% had two registered motor vehicles and 17.5% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Eight Mile Plains, there were 98 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 52 (or 53.1%) were male and 46 (or 46.9%) 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 Eight Mile Plains, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 3.1, with 1.1 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $1,333.

In Eight Mile Plains, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the median weekly rent was $230 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $800.