Long Beach

16.7% of Long Beach's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

528 family households lived in Long Beach; 31.4% were couple families and 11.6% were one-parent families.

27.7% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Long Beach had 1,758 residents at the 2021 Census.

16.6% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

46.2% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 91.6% of occupied private dwellings in Long Beach.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 8.4% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.4% of occupied private dwellings.

48.9% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

34.8% were buying their home with a mortgage.

16.2% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Long Beach had 2.5 people.

One-person households made up 19.8% of occupied homes. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 48.5%, while 22.1% had four or more usual residents.

11.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

66.3% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

1.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.1% walked or cycled.

1.6% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

One-car households formed 29.8% of the total.

67.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

53.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 46.4% reported a different address.

15.2% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

90.9% of residents used only English at home.

4.3% used a language other than English at home.

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

15.2% of Long Beach's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 84.8% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.6% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 92.4%.

English ancestry accounted for 45.0% of ancestry responses in Long Beach.

Australian ancestry made up 38.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.5% of responses.

15.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 13.2% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 13.8%.

Health care and social assistance employed 15.1% of workers, and education and training employed 7.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 50.0%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

23.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.8% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.4%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

50.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

10.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.2% reported asthma, 14.2% arthritis and 4.9% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

17.5% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 6.7% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 43.7%.

Median household income was $1,389 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,699.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $410 per week.

Working from home was 11.8% in Long Beach, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 48.9% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 16.2% in Long Beach, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.