Medowie

23.1% of Medowie's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

3,154 family households lived in Medowie; 48.4% were couple families and 14.6% were one-parent families.

42.3% of local families included children under 15. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Medowie had 10,879 residents at the 2021 Census.

24.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

26.6% were 55 or older. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 97.5% of occupied private dwellings in Medowie.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 2.1% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.5% of occupied private dwellings.

30.5% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

47.2% were buying their home with a mortgage.

22.3% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Medowie had 2.9 people.

One-person households made up 14.5% of occupied homes. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

Two-person households represented 33.6%, while 34.0% had four or more usual residents.

21.0% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

55.3% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

0.2% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.0% walked or cycled.

0.9% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

One-car households formed 22.3% of the total.

76.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

53.7% were at the same address five years earlier, while 46.3% reported a different address.

9.4% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

93.7% of residents used only English at home.

3.6% used a language other than English at home.

0.3% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.2% spoke Hindi.

9.4% of Medowie's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 90.6% was born in Australia.

0.2% of residents were born in China.

0.2% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 94.4%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.0% of ancestry responses in Medowie.

Australian ancestry made up 48.6% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.7% of responses.

16.1% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 10.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 13.6%.

Health care and social assistance employed 14.2% of workers, and education and training employed 6.7%.

The labour-force participation rate was 66.5%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

37.4% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 21.3% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.0%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

56.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.8% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.6% reported asthma, 9.9% arthritis and 5.1% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.2% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.9% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 18.2%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 50.4%.

Median household income was $2,044 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,950.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $430 per week.

Working from home was 21.0% in Medowie, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 30.5% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 22.3% in Medowie, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.