Pakenham

Pakenham is a suburb on Melbourne’s south-eastern edge, in Cardinia Shire. Pakenham station is the end of the Pakenham line. Berwick, closer to the city, is on the same line. The photograph is the racecourse at dawn on 28 August 2013.

At the 2021 Census the Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 54,118 people usually living in Pakenham. The median age was 33. The Victorian median on the same release was 38. There were 20,160 private dwellings, with 2.8 people per household on average. The Victorian figure was 2.5. The median weekly household income was $1,664.

2021 Census

People usually resident	54,118
Median age	33
Private dwellings	20,160
People per household	2.8
Median weekly household income	$1,664

These figures are for the suburb, not for Cardinia Shire.

References

• 2021 Census QuickStats: Pakenham (SAL22027), Australian Bureau of Statistics. People, median age, dwellings, people per household, and median weekly household income. The Victorian median age on that page is 38, and the Victorian average household is 2.5 people.
• Photograph: Pakenham Racecourse, 28 August 2013, Shane Smith, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.