Menai

19.7% of Menai's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Greater Sydney average.

3,029 family households lived in Menai; 55.0% were couple families and 14.5% were one-parent families.

38.0% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Greater Sydney average.

Menai had 10,419 residents at the 2021 Census.

23.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

28.5% were 55 or older. That is close to the Greater Sydney average.

Separate houses made up 75.4% of occupied private dwellings in Menai.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 21.6% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 3.2% of occupied private dwellings.

36.7% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Greater Sydney average.

48.4% were buying their home with a mortgage.

15.0% rented their home. That is about half the Greater Sydney rate.

The average household in Menai had 3.0 people.

One-person households made up 13.6% of occupied homes. That is well below the Greater Sydney average.

Two-person households represented 29.4%, while 37.3% had four or more usual residents.

37.4% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Greater Sydney average.

40.6% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Greater Sydney average.

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

3.2% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Greater Sydney rate.

One-car households formed 24.6% of the total.

72.0% of households had two or more vehicles.

69.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 30.2% reported a different address.

19.6% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Greater Sydney rate.

80.4% of residents used only English at home.

17.4% used a language other than English at home.

1.8% spoke Mandarin at home, 1.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.3% spoke Hindi.

19.6% of Menai's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 80.4% was born in Australia.

1.4% of residents were born in China.

0.7% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 94.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 33.5% of ancestry responses in Menai.

Australian ancestry made up 35.7% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 4.1% of responses.

25.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Greater Sydney average.

Managers accounted for 16.1% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 17.7%.

Health care and social assistance employed 12.9% of workers, and education and training employed 12.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 68.9%, compared with 60.0% across Greater Sydney.

38.9% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.1% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.4%, compared with 5.1% across Greater Sydney.

64.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.4% reported asthma, 7.9% arthritis and 3.9% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

29.0% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Greater Sydney average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 8.6% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 18.6%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 33.6%.

Median household income was $2,575 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,600.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $560 per week.

Working from home was 37.4% in Menai, compared with 38.9% across Greater Sydney.

Outright ownership was 36.7% locally and 28.6% across Greater Sydney. That is well above the Greater Sydney average.

Renting accounted for 15.0% in Menai, against 37.1% across Greater Sydney.