Sanctuary Point

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

2,242 family households lived in Sanctuary Point; 28.6% were couple families and 22.6% were one-parent families.

31.2% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Sanctuary Point had 7,874 residents at the 2021 Census.

21.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

41.2% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 94.9% of occupied private dwellings in Sanctuary Point.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 3.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.7% of occupied private dwellings.

42.9% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

28.1% were buying their home with a mortgage.

28.9% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Sanctuary Point had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 29.1% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 40.4%, while 16.9% had four or more usual residents.

7.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

67.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

0.1% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.3% walked or cycled.

3.9% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 43.3% of the total.

52.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

57.0% were at the same address five years earlier, while 43.0% reported a different address.

13.1% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

88.3% of residents used only English at home.

5.3% used a language other than English at home.

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

13.1% of Sanctuary Point's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 86.9% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

0.1% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 90.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 42.6% of ancestry responses in Sanctuary Point.

Australian ancestry made up 41.8% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.6% of responses.

12.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 9.7% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.7%.

Health care and social assistance employed 17.8% of workers, and education and training employed 6.2%.

The labour-force participation rate was 45.6%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

22.3% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 16.0% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.5%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

47.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

13.9% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.3% reported asthma, 16.1% arthritis and 8.4% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

11.2% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.5% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.6%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 51.2%.

Median household income was $1,068 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,545.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $360 per week.

Working from home was 7.8% in Sanctuary Point, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 42.9% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 28.9% in Sanctuary Point, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.