$687 ▲ +51.0%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: $455
- 2016: $540
- 2021: $687
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
Chewton · Suburb / Locality
What people and households earn each week, and how incomes are spread.
Over 42% of people in Chewton earn less than $650 a week. This is a lower-income area where typical earnings for households and individuals sit well below the state and national figures.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Chewton — lower than 72% of areas.
Median personal, family and household incomes.
Typical weekly household income is $1,245, which is well below the Victorian figure of $1,759. Personal weekly earnings are also lower than most areas at $687, while typical family income is $1,781, a little below the national figure.
$687 ▲ +51.0%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
$1,245 ▲ +48.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total household income per week.
$1,781 ▲ +65.1%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total family income per week.
High earners and the full distribution.
High earners are less common here, with only 8.8% of people earning $2,000 or more a week, well below the national rate of 12.5%. Similarly, households earning $3,000 or more weekly make up 14.1% of the area, which is well below the Victorian average.
8.8%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ with a personal income of $2,000 or more per week.
14.1%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households with a total income of $3,000 or more per week.
Chewton splits fairly evenly between $650–$1,499 (31%) and Under $650 (27%), with $1,500–$2,999 at 26%.
In Chewton, the largest group is Under $650 at 48%, followed by $650–$1,499 (32%) and $1,500–$2,999 (17%).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Income in Chewton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20547/chewton/topic/income