Sussex Inlet

10.2% of Sussex Inlet's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

1,084 family households lived in Sussex Inlet; 23.9% were couple families and 13.7% were one-parent families.

20.4% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Sussex Inlet had 3,888 residents at the 2021 Census.

13.3% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

60.5% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 86.3% of occupied private dwellings in Sussex Inlet.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 7.6% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.0% of occupied private dwellings.

60.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

20.1% were buying their home with a mortgage.

19.8% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Sussex Inlet had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 36.3% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 43.2%, while 11.3% had four or more usual residents.

10.4% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

65.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 3.0% walked or cycled.

6.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

One-car households formed 43.4% of the total.

50.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

62.5% were at the same address five years earlier, while 37.5% reported a different address.

12.8% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

89.2% of residents used only English at home.

3.4% used a language other than English at home.

0.3% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.2% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

12.8% of Sussex Inlet's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 87.2% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

0.2% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 89.4%.

English ancestry accounted for 45.0% of ancestry responses in Sussex Inlet.

Australian ancestry made up 39.7% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.7% of responses.

12.2% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 10.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 13.0%.

Health care and social assistance employed 16.9% of workers, and education and training employed 7.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 35.0%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

16.5% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 13.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.0%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

42.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.3% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.6% reported asthma, 20.2% arthritis and 10.5% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

11.3% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.2% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 10.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 50.5%.

Median household income was $887 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,511.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $310 per week.

Working from home was 10.4% in Sussex Inlet, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 60.1% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 19.8% in Sussex Inlet, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.