Goonellabah

18.4% of Goonellabah's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

3,539 family households lived in Goonellabah; 36.4% were couple families and 22.1% were one-parent families.

36.6% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Goonellabah had 13,351 residents at the 2021 Census.

24.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

34.8% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 77.7% of occupied private dwellings in Goonellabah.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 18.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 4.2% of occupied private dwellings.

37.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

33.1% were buying their home with a mortgage.

29.8% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Goonellabah had 2.4 people.

One-person households made up 31.3% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 34.6%, while 20.0% had four or more usual residents.

10.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

66.7% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

0.4% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.2% walked or cycled.

5.7% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

One-car households formed 39.0% of the total.

55.3% of households had two or more vehicles.

56.7% were at the same address five years earlier, while 43.3% reported a different address.

9.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

88.5% of residents used only English at home.

6.1% used a language other than English at home.

0.4% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.1% spoke Hindi.

9.7% of Goonellabah's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 90.3% was born in Australia.

0.2% of residents were born in China.

0.6% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 91.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 41.2% of ancestry responses in Goonellabah.

Australian ancestry made up 41.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.9% of responses.

19.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 9.7% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 13.7%.

Health care and social assistance employed 22.7% of workers, and education and training employed 10.5%.

The labour-force participation rate was 57.2%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

31.0% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.7%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

50.3% reported no selected long-term health condition.

13.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

12.0% reported asthma, 11.7% arthritis and 5.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

21.5% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.7% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 40.8%.

Median household income was $1,318 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,560.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $320 per week.

Working from home was 10.8% in Goonellabah, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 37.1% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 29.8% in Goonellabah, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.