Gymea Bay

20.5% of Gymea Bay's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Greater Sydney average.

1,995 family households lived in Gymea Bay; 58.4% were couple families and 10.4% were one-parent families.

38.4% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Greater Sydney average.

Gymea Bay had 6,983 residents at the 2021 Census.

18.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

29.3% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Greater Sydney average.

Separate houses made up 90.0% of occupied private dwellings in Gymea Bay.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 8.5% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.1% of occupied private dwellings.

44.7% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Greater Sydney average.

48.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

7.4% rented their home. That is about half the Greater Sydney rate.

The average household in Gymea Bay had 3.1 people.

One-person households made up 11.0% of occupied homes. That is about half the Greater Sydney rate.

Two-person households represented 30.2%, while 43.0% had four or more usual residents.

41.0% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Greater Sydney average.

38.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Greater Sydney average.

1.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 0.6% walked or cycled.

2.2% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Greater Sydney rate.

One-car households formed 22.2% of the total.

75.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

73.7% were at the same address five years earlier, while 26.3% reported a different address.

14.4% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Greater Sydney rate.

90.8% of residents used only English at home.

7.2% used a language other than English at home.

1.1% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.7% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

14.4% of Gymea Bay's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 85.6% was born in Australia.

1.0% of residents were born in China.

0.2% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 94.8%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.2% of ancestry responses in Gymea Bay.

Australian ancestry made up 41.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 2.6% of responses.

25.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Greater Sydney average.

Managers accounted for 20.1% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 15.1%.

Health care and social assistance employed 11.4% of workers, and education and training employed 10.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 67.6%, compared with 60.0% across Greater Sydney.

36.6% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 21.9% worked part time.

Unemployment was 2.9%, compared with 5.1% across Greater Sydney.

66.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

5.6% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.0% reported asthma, 7.8% arthritis and 2.7% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

30.6% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Greater Sydney average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 10.5% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 17.4%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 30.9%.

Median household income was $3,047 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $3,033.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $680 per week.

Working from home was 41.0% in Gymea Bay, compared with 38.9% across Greater Sydney.

Outright ownership was 44.7% locally and 28.6% across Greater Sydney. That is well above the Greater Sydney average.

Renting accounted for 7.4% in Gymea Bay, against 37.1% across Greater Sydney.