Mount Keira

19.3% of Mount Keira's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

467 family households lived in Mount Keira; 51.6% were couple families and 12.6% were one-parent families.

38.8% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Mount Keira had 1,691 residents at the 2021 Census.

22.6% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

29.1% were 55 or older. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 92.2% of occupied private dwellings in Mount Keira.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 2.7% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 5.3% of occupied private dwellings.

43.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

41.2% were buying their home with a mortgage.

15.5% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Mount Keira had 2.9 people.

One-person households made up 17.1% of occupied homes. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 31.3%, while 34.3% had four or more usual residents.

29.1% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about twice the Rest of NSW rate.

46.3% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

0.9% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.7% walked or cycled.

3.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 25.1% of the total.

71.1% of households had two or more vehicles.

70.4% were at the same address five years earlier, while 29.6% reported a different address.

19.6% of residents were born outside Australia. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

83.1% of residents used only English at home.

14.4% used a language other than English at home.

0.9% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.2% spoke Cantonese and 0.8% spoke Hindi.

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

0.5% of residents were born in China.

1.8% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 90.2%.

English ancestry accounted for 34.5% of ancestry responses in Mount Keira.

Australian ancestry made up 37.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.1% of responses.

33.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 14.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 16.6% of workers, and education and training employed 15.9%.

The labour-force participation rate was 66.2%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

32.6% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 23.9% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.9%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

63.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

6.9% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.0% reported asthma, 7.2% arthritis and 3.7% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

30.0% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 14.9% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 26.6%.

Median household income was $2,476 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,468.

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

Working from home was 29.1% in Mount Keira, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 43.3% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 15.5% in Mount Keira, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.