$415 ▲ +34.3%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: $309
- 2016: $373
- 2021: $415
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
Korong Vale · Suburb / Locality
What people and households earn each week, and how incomes are spread.
Six out of ten people in Korong Vale earn less than $650 a week. This is a low-income area where typical weekly earnings for families are far below the state and national figures.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Korong Vale — lower than 99% of areas.
Median personal, family and household incomes.
Typical weekly household income is just $575, which is among the lowest for similar areas and far below the Victorian figure of $1,759. Weekly family income is also far below the national average at $747.
$415 ▲ +34.3%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
$575 ▲ +29.2%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total household income per week.
$747 ▲ +29.5%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total family income per week.
High earners and the full distribution.
No one in the area earns $2,000 or more a week, a figure far below the 12.5% national average. High-earning households are also absent, with 0.0% earning over $3,000 weekly compared to 22.7% across Victoria.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ with a personal income of $2,000 or more per week.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households with a total income of $3,000 or more per week.
Korong Vale splits fairly evenly between Under $650 (48%) and $650–$1,499 (45%), with $1,500–$2,999 at 7%.
In Korong Vale, Under $650 is the majority at 85%; $650–$1,499 is next at 15%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Income in Korong Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21397/korong-vale/topic/income