Broken Hill

17.0% of Broken Hill's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

4,535 family households lived in Broken Hill; 31.6% were couple families and 23.5% were one-parent families.

33.9% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Broken Hill had 17,706 residents at the 2021 Census.

23.1% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

37.8% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 94.5% of occupied private dwellings in Broken Hill.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 2.4% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 2.5% of occupied private dwellings.

44.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

31.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

24.7% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Broken Hill had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 37.1% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 34.4%, while 15.8% had four or more usual residents.

4.5% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

69.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

0.1% used only a train, tram or bus, while 4.2% walked or cycled.

9.7% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 42.8% of the total.

47.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

68.2% were at the same address five years earlier, while 31.8% reported a different address.

5.1% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

88.0% of residents used only English at home.

3.4% used a language other than English at home.

0.1% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

5.1% of Broken Hill's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 94.9% was born in Australia.

0.1% of residents were born in China.

0.4% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 89.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 37.8% of ancestry responses in Broken Hill.

Australian ancestry made up 43.2% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.4% of responses.

16.4% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 9.9% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.5%.

Health care and social assistance employed 21.7% of workers, and education and training employed 8.4%.

The labour-force participation rate was 52.1%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

30.4% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.0% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.5%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

46.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.8% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

12.0% reported asthma, 14.1% arthritis and 8.1% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

13.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.3% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 11.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 45.2%.

Median household income was $1,176 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $867.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $220 per week.

Working from home was 4.5% in Broken Hill, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 44.0% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 24.7% in Broken Hill, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.