Speers Point

16.6% of Speers Point's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

970 family households lived in Speers Point; 38.9% were couple families and 17.1% were one-parent families.

33.5% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Speers Point had 3,400 residents at the 2021 Census.

21.4% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

37.1% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 80.6% of occupied private dwellings in Speers Point.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 16.3% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 3.4% of occupied private dwellings.

40.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

36.7% were buying their home with a mortgage.

23.1% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Speers Point had 2.4 people.

One-person households made up 27.9% of occupied homes. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

Two-person households represented 35.5%, while 21.8% had four or more usual residents.

24.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

55.5% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

0.6% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.1% walked or cycled.

5.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

One-car households formed 32.6% of the total.

62.0% of households had two or more vehicles.

60.7% were at the same address five years earlier, while 39.3% reported a different address.

12.0% of residents were born outside Australia. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

90.4% of residents used only English at home.

6.5% used a language other than English at home.

0.5% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.4% spoke Cantonese and 0.9% spoke Hindi.

12.0% of Speers Point's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 88.0% was born in Australia.

0.4% of residents were born in China.

1.3% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 93.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.1% of ancestry responses in Speers Point.

Australian ancestry made up 40.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.5% of responses.

25.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 13.4% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 13.6%.

Health care and social assistance employed 19.4% of workers, and education and training employed 10.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 60.1%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

33.0% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.7%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

54.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.6% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.5% reported asthma, 12.4% arthritis and 5.3% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

24.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 7.6% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 17.0%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 37.0%.

Median household income was $1,766 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,167.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $393 per week.

Working from home was 24.8% in Speers Point, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 40.1% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 23.1% in Speers Point, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.