Top Camp

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 669 people in Top Camp of these 48.9% were male and 51.1% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.6% of the population.

The median age of people in Top Camp was 36 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 24.7% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 7.8% of the population.

Of people in Top Camp aged 15 years and over, 69.4% were married and 6.6% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Top Camp was 48 years and the median age of people never married was 19 years.

In Top Camp, of people aged 15 years and over, 69.5% of people were in a registered marriage and 4.5% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Top Camp was 48 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 36 years.

In Top Camp 32.5% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 32.6% were in primary school, 29.4% in secondary school and 17.9% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Top Camp were Australian 30.6%, English 29.1%, Irish 10.6%, German 9.9% and Scottish 8.2%.

In Top Camp, 89.0% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 2.4%, Zimbabwe 1.3%, South Africa 1.2%, United States of America 0.7% and Scotland 0.6%.

In Top Camp, 84.0% of people had both parents born in Australia and 8.3% of people had both parents born overseas.

The most common responses for religion in Top Camp were Catholic 23.5%, Anglican 17.9%, No Religion 13.4%, Lutheran 7.7% and Christian, nfd 7.3%.

In Top Camp 95.1% of people only spoke English at home. The only other responses for language spoken at home were Afrikaans 1.3%, Japanese 0.6%, Latvian 0.4% and Korean 0.4%.

Employment

There were 382 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Top Camp. Of these 61.0% were employed full time, 29.8% were employed part-time and 3.1% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Top Camp, 9.9% worked 1 to 15 hours, 11.7% worked 16 to 24 hours and 49.6% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Top Camp was 42 years and for people who were employed part-time was 38 years.

The most common occupations in Top Camp included Professionals 21.3%, Technicians and Trades Workers 19.2%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 17.1%, Managers 12.3%, Sales Workers 8.8%, Community and Personal Service Workers 7.5%, Labourers 6.1% and Machinery Operators And Drivers 5.3%.

Of the employed people in Top Camp, the most common responses for industry of employment included School Education 10.2%, Hospitals 5.9%, Residential Building Construction 3.5%, Building Installation Services 3.2% and Tertiary Education 3.2%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Top Camp was $721.

In Top Camp, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Car, as driver 68.0%, Car, as passenger 6.7%, Truck 2.1%, Motorbike/scooter 1.6% and Walked only 1.3%. 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 75.3% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Top Camp, of people aged 15 years and over, 80.9% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 40.1% provided care for children and 11.1% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 29.2% 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 Top Camp, 30.0% worked 5 to 14 hours, 15.3% worked 15 to 29 hours and 14.5% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Top Camp, 62.8% were couple families with children, 32.8% were couple families without children and 4.4% were one parent families.

In Top Camp 0.0% of single parents were male and 100.0% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Top Camp, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $2,196 and those without children was $2,250.

Employment status of couple families

In Top Camp, of couple families with children, 21.2% had both partners employed full-time, 5.6% had both employed part-time and 28.5% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Top Camp, 92.5% of private dwellings were occupied and 7.5% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Top Camp, 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 Top Camp, of occupied private dwellings 0.0% had 1 bedroom, 0.0% had 2 bedrooms and 24.9% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 4. The average household size was 3.3 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Top Camp, 30.0% were owned outright, 61.5% were owned with a mortgage and 7.0% were rented.

Household composition

In Top Camp, of all households, 91.9% were family households, 5.6% were single person households and 2.5% were group households.

In Top Camp, 7.7% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 14.8% 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 Top Camp, 15.1% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 48.2% had two registered motor vehicles and 35.2% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Top Camp, there were 0 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 0 (or 0.0%) were male and 0 (or 0.0%) were female. The median age was 0 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 Top Camp, for dwellings occupied by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, the average household size was 0, with 0 persons per bedroom. The median household income was $0.

In Top Camp, 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.