Home Island

Demographics & education

In the 2011 Census, there were 418 people in Home Island of these 49.3% were male and 50.7% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.4% of the population.

The median age of people in Home Island was 38 years. Children aged 0 - 14 years made up 21.9% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 13.3% of the population.

Of people in Home Island aged 15 years and over, 83.3% were married and 0.9% were either divorced or separated.

The median age of married people in Home Island was 50 years and the median age of people never married was 19 years.

In Home Island, of people aged 15 years and over, 81.4% of people were in a registered marriage and 0.0% were in a de facto marriage.

The median age of people in a registered marriage in Home Island was 51 years and the median age of people in a de facto marriage was 40 years.

In Home Island 23.3% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 30.2% were in primary school, 31.2% in secondary school and 4.2% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Cultural & language diversity

The most common ancestries in Home Island were Malay 21.5%, Indonesian 18.2%, Australian 15.6%, Javanese 7.2% and Cook Islander 1.5%.

In Home Island, 83.6% of people were born in Australia. The only other responses for country of birth were Malaysia 5.9%, Singapore 1.7% and Guinea 0.7%.

In Home Island, 77.6% of people had both parents born in Australia and 13.4% of people had both parents born overseas.

The only responses for religion in Home Island were Islam 96.7% and Uniting Church 0.7%.

In Home Island 2.4% of people only spoke English at home. The only other responses for language spoken at home were Malay 93.6% and Portuguese 0.7%.

Employment

There were 153 people who reported being in the labour force in the week before Census night in Home Island. Of these 44.4% were employed full time, 35.3% were employed part-time and 11.8% were unemployed.

Of employed people in Home Island, 19.3% worked 1 to 15 hours, 7.1% worked 16 to 24 hours and 32.9% worked 40 hours or more.

The median age of people employed full-time in Home Island was 44 years and for people who were employed part-time was 45 years.

The most common occupations in Home Island included Labourers 23.0%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 16.5%, Technicians and Trades Workers 15.8%, Community and Personal Service Workers 15.8%, Professionals 8.6%, Machinery Operators And Drivers 8.6%, Sales Workers 5.0% and Managers 4.3%.

Of the employed people in Home Island, the most common responses for industry of employment included Supermarket and Grocery Stores 18.1%, Local Government Administration 17.4%, Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Services 7.2%, School Education 7.2% and Air and Space Transport 4.3%.

The median weekly personal income for people aged 15 years and over in Home Island was $412.

In Home Island, on the day of the Census, the most common methods of travel to work for employed people included Ferry 24.8%, Motorbike/scooter 14.6%, Bus, ferry 12.4%, Walked only 11.7% and Car, as driver 6.6%. On the day, 43.1% of employed people used public transport (train, bus, ferry, tram/light rail) as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 8.0% used car (either as driver or as passenger).

In Home Island, of people aged 15 years and over, 36.5% did unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census. During the two weeks before the Census, 21.8% provided care for children and 6.8% assisted family members or others due to a disability, long term illness or problems related to old age. In the year before the Census, 14.8% 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 Home Island, 14.2% worked 5 to 14 hours, 4.3% worked 15 to 29 hours and 4.6% worked 30 hours or more.

Family composition

Of the families in Home Island, 62.6% were couple families with children, 37.4% were couple families without children and 0.0% were one parent families.

In Home Island 0.0% of single parents were male and 100.0% were female.

Weekly incomes

In Home Island, for couple families with two incomes, the median income for those with children was $1,395 and those without children was $0.

Employment status of couple families

In Home Island, of couple families with children, 11.6% had both partners employed full-time, 4.7% had both employed part-time and 10.9% had one employed full-time and the other part-time.

Dwelling structure

Dwelling tables exclude visitor only and other non-classifiable households

In Home Island, 91.3% of private dwellings were occupied and 8.7% were unoccupied.

Of occupied private dwellings in Home Island, 96.9% were separate houses, 0.0% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc, 3.1% were flats, units or apartments and 0.0% were other dwellings.

In Home Island, of occupied private dwellings 0.0% had 1 bedroom, 5.3% had 2 bedrooms and 32.6% had 3 bedrooms. The average number of bedrooms per occupied private dwelling was 3.8. The average household size was 4.4 people.

Of occupied private dwellings in Home Island, 12.9% were owned outright, 0.0% were owned with a mortgage and 57.0% were rented.

Household composition

In Home Island, of all households, 96.9% were family households, 0.0% were single person households and 3.1% were group households.

In Home Island, 7.8% of households had a weekly household income of less than $600 and 7.8% 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 Home Island, 18.9% of occupied private dwellings had one registered motor vehicle garaged or parked at their address, 29.5% had two registered motor vehicles and 35.8% had three or more registered motor vehicles.

People characteristics

In Home Island, there were 8 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Of these, 5 (or 62.5%) were male and 3 (or 37.5%) were female. The median age was 37 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 Home Island, 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 Home Island, 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.