Merewether

16.4% of Merewether's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

3,047 family households lived in Merewether; 44.1% were couple families and 11.2% were one-parent families.

34.4% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Merewether had 11,788 residents at the 2021 Census.

26.3% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

29.3% were 55 or older. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 60.9% of occupied private dwellings in Merewether.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 19.2% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 19.7% of occupied private dwellings.

35.9% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

30.1% were buying their home with a mortgage.

34.0% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Merewether had 2.4 people.

One-person households made up 27.2% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 34.5%, while 23.6% had four or more usual residents.

27.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

48.7% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

0.6% used only a train, tram or bus, while 4.3% walked or cycled.

6.5% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 33.8% of the total.

59.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

56.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 43.2% reported a different address.

12.3% of residents were born outside Australia. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

91.0% of residents used only English at home.

6.1% used a language other than English at home.

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

12.3% of Merewether's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 87.7% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

0.5% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 93.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.2% of ancestry responses in Merewether.

Australian ancestry made up 39.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.4% of responses.

37.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about twice the Rest of NSW rate.

Managers accounted for 15.5% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.6%.

Health care and social assistance employed 22.4% of workers, and education and training employed 10.7%.

The labour-force participation rate was 68.9%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

38.5% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 23.8% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.1%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

62.3% reported no selected long-term health condition.

9.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.1% reported asthma, 7.9% arthritis and 2.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

38.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about twice the Rest of NSW rate.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 13.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 13.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 22.7%.

Median household income was $2,287 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,457.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $420 per week.

Working from home was 27.8% in Merewether, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 35.9% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 34.0% in Merewether, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.