Fingal Bay

10.5% of Fingal Bay's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

489 family households lived in Fingal Bay; 21.9% were couple families and 11.9% were one-parent families.

19.6% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Fingal Bay had 1,635 residents at the 2021 Census.

11.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

64.0% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 51.9% of occupied private dwellings in Fingal Bay.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 45.8% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.0% of occupied private dwellings.

56.6% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

17.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

26.4% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Fingal Bay had 2.1 people.

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

Two-person households represented 49.2%, while 10.5% had four or more usual residents.

17.6% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

54.5% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 3.2% walked or cycled.

4.7% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 50.4% of the total.

45.6% of households had two or more vehicles.

59.3% were at the same address five years earlier, while 40.7% reported a different address.

13.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

89.1% of residents used only English at home.

2.8% used a language other than English at home.

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

13.5% of Fingal Bay's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 86.5% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 88.9%.

English ancestry accounted for 46.9% of ancestry responses in Fingal Bay.

Australian ancestry made up 36.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.5% of responses.

15.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 13.0% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.1%.

Health care and social assistance employed 11.7% of workers, and education and training employed 8.3%.

The labour-force participation rate was 36.2%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

14.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.7% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.3%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

45.6% reported no selected long-term health condition.

8.0% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.7% reported asthma, 19.1% arthritis and 6.4% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 4.3% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 13.4%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 40.8%.

Median household income was $1,114 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,733.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $390 per week.

Working from home was 17.6% in Fingal Bay, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 56.6% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 26.4% in Fingal Bay, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.