$515 ▲ +43.5%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: $359
- 2016: $492
- 2021: $515
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
Picola · Suburb / Locality
What people and households earn each week, and how incomes are spread.
Much lower incomes than most similar areas define Picola, where a typical family earns just $1,375 a week. This is well below the Victorian figure of $2,136, marking the town as a low-earning pocket of the region.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Picola — lower than 81% of areas.
Median personal, family and household incomes.
Weekly pay for individuals is well below the national figure, with a typical person earning $515. Typical household incomes are also much lower than most areas at $1,104 per week.
$515 ▲ +43.5%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
$1,104 ▲ +53.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total household income per week.
$1,375 ▲ +57.1%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total family income per week.
High earners and the full distribution.
High earners are rare here, with only 4.8% of households making $3,000 or more weekly, compared to 22.7% across Victoria. This is consistent with the personal income data, where 56.4% of people earn under $650 a week.
1.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ with a personal income of $2,000 or more per week.
4.8%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households with a total income of $3,000 or more per week.
Picola splits fairly evenly between $650–$1,499 (33%) and $1,500–$2,999 (32%), with Under $650 at 30%.
In Picola, Under $650 is the majority at 57%; $650–$1,499 is next at 31%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Income in Picola [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22066/picola/topic/income