$491 —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: $479
- 2021: $491
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
Sailors Falls · Suburb / Locality
What people and households earn each week, and how incomes are spread.
Weekly personal incomes in Sailors Falls are far below the national figure, with a typical person earning just $491. This reflects a broader trend across the area where typical household and family incomes are well below both the Victorian and Australian averages.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Sailors Falls — lower than 74% of areas.
Median personal, family and household incomes.
Typical weekly household income is $1,208, which is lower than most areas and well below the Victorian figure of $1,759. Families here earn a typical $1,625 a week, also well below the state and national averages.
$491 —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
$1,208 —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total household income per week.
$1,625 —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total family income per week.
High earners and the full distribution.
While 20% of households earn $3,000 or more a week, high individual earners are rare; only 4.3% of people earn $2,000 or more weekly, which is well below the national figure of 12.5%.
4.3%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ with a personal income of $2,000 or more per week.
20.0%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households with a total income of $3,000 or more per week.
Sailors Falls splits fairly evenly between $1,500–$2,999 (29%) and $650–$1,499 (25%), with Under $650 at 21%.
In Sailors Falls, Under $650 is the majority at 61%; $650–$1,499 is next at 34%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Income in Sailors Falls [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22223/sailors-falls/topic/income