Cooma

16.4% of Cooma's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

1,716 family households lived in Cooma; 35.5% were couple families and 17.3% were one-parent families.

33.5% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Cooma had 6,715 residents at the 2021 Census.

24.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

36.8% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 88.5% of occupied private dwellings in Cooma.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 6.1% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 4.4% of occupied private dwellings.

39.7% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

30.1% were buying their home with a mortgage.

30.2% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Cooma had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 34.5% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 35.8%, while 16.6% had four or more usual residents.

9.1% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

63.2% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

0.6% used only a train, tram or bus, while 6.9% walked or cycled.

7.2% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 40.3% of the total.

52.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

60.3% were at the same address five years earlier, while 39.7% reported a different address.

16.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

82.7% of residents used only English at home.

9.0% used a language other than English at home.

0.3% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.4% spoke Cantonese and 0.3% spoke Hindi.

16.5% of Cooma's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 83.5% was born in Australia.

0.4% of residents were born in China.

1.1% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 84.9%.

English ancestry accounted for 35.2% of ancestry responses in Cooma.

Australian ancestry made up 39.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.3% of responses.

18.1% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 12.3% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 12.9%.

Health care and social assistance employed 11.0% of workers, and education and training employed 8.7%.

The labour-force participation rate was 55.9%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

33.0% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 17.6% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.8%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

52.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.4% reported asthma, 13.0% arthritis and 5.9% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

18.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.8% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 13.6%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 38.7%.

Median household income was $1,374 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 $290 per week.

Working from home was 9.1% in Cooma, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 39.7% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

Renting accounted for 30.2% in Cooma, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.