Coffin Bay

12.8% of Coffin Bay's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

190 family households lived in Coffin Bay; 21.6% were couple families and 10.5% were one-parent families.

23.7% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of SA average.

Coffin Bay had 664 residents at the 2021 Census.

17.9% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

53.5% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Separate houses made up 94.6% of occupied private dwellings in Coffin Bay.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 1.4% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

49.5% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

30.4% were buying their home with a mortgage.

20.1% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

The average household in Coffin Bay had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 31.5% of occupied homes. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

Two-person households represented 46.4%, while 11.9% had four or more usual residents.

5.4% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

67.6% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 4.3% walked or cycled.

1.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

One-car households formed 33.4% of the total.

64.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

61.0% were at the same address five years earlier, while 39.0% reported a different address.

11.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

92.8% of residents used only English at home.

3.3% used a language other than English at home.

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

11.7% of Coffin Bay's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 88.3% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.8% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 92.0%.

English ancestry accounted for 46.8% of ancestry responses in Coffin Bay.

Australian ancestry made up 43.8% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

9.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

Managers accounted for 23.4% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 9.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 13.3% of workers, and education and training employed 5.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 48.6%, compared with 54.1% across Rest of SA.

25.7% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 16.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 2.5%, compared with 4.8% across Rest of SA.

56.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.7% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

6.9% reported asthma, 15.2% arthritis and 6.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

15.5% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 4.1% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 46.4%.

Median household income was $1,254 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,300.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $273 per week.

Working from home was 5.4% in Coffin Bay, compared with 8.9% across Rest of SA.

Outright ownership was 49.5% locally and 41.6% across Rest of SA. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Renting accounted for 20.1% in Coffin Bay, against 26.0% across Rest of SA.