Inverell

19.6% of Inverell's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

3,141 family households lived in Inverell; 33.4% were couple families and 21.3% were one-parent families.

36.9% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Inverell had 12,057 residents at the 2021 Census.

22.6% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

35.1% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 87.3% of occupied private dwellings in Inverell.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 10.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.2% of occupied private dwellings.

36.9% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

29.2% were buying their home with a mortgage.

33.8% rented their home. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Inverell had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 30.7% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 35.9%, while 19.1% had four or more usual residents.

7.4% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

68.4% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

0.2% used only a train, tram or bus, while 3.8% walked or cycled.

7.6% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 38.0% of the total.

54.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

57.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 42.2% reported a different address.

7.3% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

86.7% of residents used only English at home.

5.0% used a language other than English at home.

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

7.3% of Inverell's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 92.7% was born in Australia.

0.2% of residents were born in China.

0.4% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 88.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 39.7% of ancestry responses in Inverell.

Australian ancestry made up 43.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.1% of responses.

15.5% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 10.7% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.0%.

Health care and social assistance employed 16.1% of workers, and education and training employed 9.5%.

The labour-force participation rate was 52.7%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

29.6% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 16.7% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.3%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

52.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

9.2% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.0% reported asthma, 11.5% arthritis and 6.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.3% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 11.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 46.1%.

Median household income was $1,187 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,250.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $270 per week.

Working from home was 7.4% in Inverell, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 36.9% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 33.8% in Inverell, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.