Quirindi

18.2% of Quirindi's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

840 family households lived in Quirindi; 34.9% were couple families and 18.7% were one-parent families.

35.2% of local families included children under 15. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

Quirindi had 3,355 residents at the 2021 Census.

19.6% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

39.6% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 93.2% of occupied private dwellings in Quirindi.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 4.1% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 2.0% of occupied private dwellings.

43.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

27.5% were buying their home with a mortgage.

29.4% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Quirindi had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 31.6% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 36.9%, while 19.8% had four or more usual residents.

10.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

64.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

0.7% used only a train, tram or bus, while 5.3% walked or cycled.

6.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 34.9% of the total.

59.1% of households had two or more vehicles.

62.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 37.4% reported a different address.

5.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

86.0% of residents used only English at home.

2.7% used a language other than English at home.

0.1% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.3% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

5.7% of Quirindi's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 94.3% 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 86.4%.

English ancestry accounted for 38.0% of ancestry responses in Quirindi.

Australian ancestry made up 43.6% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.7% of responses.

14.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 13.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.2%.

Health care and social assistance employed 14.8% of workers, and education and training employed 9.5%.

The labour-force participation rate was 51.5%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

29.5% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.1% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.1%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

50.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

8.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.9% reported asthma, 11.8% arthritis and 6.3% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.1% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 11.2%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 43.5%.

Median household income was $1,198 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,127.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $250 per week.

Working from home was 10.2% in Quirindi, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 43.1% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 29.4% in Quirindi, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.