$725 —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: $687
- 2021: $725
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
Wallace · Suburb / Locality
What people and households earn each week, and how incomes are spread.
Typical weekly household incomes in Wallace are $1,791, which is higher than most similar areas. While basic earnings are steady, the area has very few high-income earners compared to the rest of the state. This suggests a community where most people earn a comfortable middle income rather than a small group of very wealthy residents.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Wallace — higher than 65% of areas.
Median personal, family and household incomes.
Typical families earn $2,159 a week, which is about the same as the Victoria and Australia figures. Personal weekly income is $725, which is a little below the national figure of $805.
$725 —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total personal income per week for people aged 15+.
$1,791 —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total household income per week.
$2,159 —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Median total family income per week.
High earners and the full distribution.
High earners are rare here, with only 9.2% of households bringing in $3,000 or more a week, a figure far below the 22.7% seen across Victoria. Similarly, the proportion of people earning over $2,000 weekly is well below the national level.
6.5%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ with a personal income of $2,000 or more per week.
9.2%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households with a total income of $3,000 or more per week.
Wallace splits fairly evenly between $1,500–$2,999 (34%) and Under $650 (29%), with $650–$1,499 at 26%.
In Wallace, the largest group is Under $650 at 47%, followed by $650–$1,499 (37%) and $1,500–$2,999 (14%).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Income in Wallace [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22656/wallace/topic/income