Oxley Vale

25.0% of Oxley Vale's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

1,016 family households lived in Oxley Vale; 37.9% were couple families and 25.6% were one-parent families.

47.3% of local families included children under 15. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Oxley Vale had 3,935 residents at the 2021 Census.

27.9% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

25.8% were 55 or older. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 92.3% of occupied private dwellings in Oxley Vale.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 6.5% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.6% of occupied private dwellings.

26.8% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

28.7% were buying their home with a mortgage.

44.5% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Oxley Vale had 2.6 people.

One-person households made up 26.1% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 31.2%, while 25.5% had four or more usual residents.

8.1% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

67.4% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

0.2% used only a train, tram or bus, while 0.7% walked or cycled.

5.3% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

One-car households formed 37.9% of the total.

56.6% of households had two or more vehicles.

51.2% were at the same address five years earlier, while 48.8% reported a different address.

10.3% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

84.3% of residents used only English at home.

8.9% used a language other than English at home.

1.4% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.2% spoke Hindi.

10.3% of Oxley Vale's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 89.7% was born in Australia.

1.0% of residents were born in China.

1.1% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 86.8%.

English ancestry accounted for 36.8% of ancestry responses in Oxley Vale.

Australian ancestry made up 42.9% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 2.2% of responses.

15.5% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 7.7% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.0%.

Health care and social assistance employed 21.2% of workers, and education and training employed 7.7%.

The labour-force participation rate was 58.7%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

34.9% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 17.3% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.5%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

51.9% reported no selected long-term health condition.

13.0% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

12.5% reported asthma, 9.4% arthritis and 5.7% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

17.8% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.6% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 47.0%.

Median household income was $1,381 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,305.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $335 per week.

Working from home was 8.1% in Oxley Vale, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 26.8% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 44.5% in Oxley Vale, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.