Fern Bay

19.9% of Fern Bay's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

1,138 family households lived in Fern Bay; 40.3% were couple families and 9.9% were one-parent families.

37.8% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Fern Bay had 4,046 residents at the 2021 Census.

24.2% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

39.6% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 97.6% of occupied private dwellings in Fern Bay.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 1.6% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.2% of occupied private dwellings.

48.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

27.0% 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 Fern Bay had 2.4 people.

One-person households made up 29.9% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 36.2%, while 21.5% had four or more usual residents.

26.1% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

52.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 0.6% walked or cycled.

4.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 42.4% of the total.

52.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

43.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 56.1% reported a different address.

11.9% of residents were born outside Australia. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

90.7% of residents used only English at home.

4.6% used a language other than English at home.

0.3% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.2% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

11.9% of Fern Bay's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 88.1% was born in Australia.

0.1% of residents were born in China.

0.1% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 91.6%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.5% of ancestry responses in Fern Bay.

Australian ancestry made up 40.9% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.1% of responses.

24.9% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 13.1% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 12.6%.

Health care and social assistance employed 16.6% of workers, and education and training employed 9.9%.

The labour-force participation rate was 50.4%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

29.4% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.0%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

51.7% reported no selected long-term health condition.

10.7% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.6% reported asthma, 14.2% arthritis and 6.3% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

20.6% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 7.0% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.3%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 39.1%.

Median household income was $1,435 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,299.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $510 per week.

Working from home was 26.1% in Fern Bay, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 48.3% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 24.7% in Fern Bay, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.