$631 ▲ +37.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: $459
- 2016: $526
- 2021: $631
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
Cobden · Suburb / Locality
What people and households earn each week, and how incomes are spread.
Weekly family incomes are well below the national figure in Cobden, where the typical family earns $1,517. This marks the area as lower income than most similar places, with a significant gap compared to the rest of Victoria and Australia.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Cobden — lower than 77% of areas.
Median personal, family and household incomes.
The typical household earns $1,162 a week, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Victorian figure of $1,759. Personal weekly incomes are also low, with the typical person earning $631.
$631 ▲ +37.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
$1,162 ▲ +23.6%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total household income per week.
$1,517 ▲ +32.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total family income per week.
High earners and the full distribution.
High earners are rare here, as only 9.7% of households earn $3,000 or more a week, a figure far below the 22.6% national average. This is consistent with personal earnings, where only 5.3% of people earn $2,000 or more weekly.
5.3%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ with a personal income of $2,000 or more per week.
9.7%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households with a total income of $3,000 or more per week.
In Cobden, the largest group is $650–$1,499 at 36%, followed by $1,500–$2,999 (28%) and Under $650 (26%).
In Cobden, Under $650 is the majority at 51%; $650–$1,499 is next at 34%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Income in Cobden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20591/cobden/topic/income