Telegraph Point

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

156 family households lived in Telegraph Point; 42.3% were couple families and 15.4% were one-parent families.

39.1% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Telegraph Point had 604 residents at the 2021 Census.

20.5% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

39.4% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 100.0% of occupied private dwellings in Telegraph Point.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

46.2% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

41.8% were buying their home with a mortgage.

12.1% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

The average household in Telegraph Point had 2.7 people.

One-person households made up 19.4% of occupied homes. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 39.8%, while 27.0% had four or more usual residents.

9.5% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

69.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 2.1% walked or cycled.

2.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

One-car households formed 20.8% of the total.

75.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

74.1% were at the same address five years earlier, while 25.9% reported a different address.

8.8% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

89.2% of residents used only English at home.

3.1% used a language other than English at home.

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

8.8% of Telegraph Point's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 91.2% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 89.2%.

English ancestry accounted for 45.0% of ancestry responses in Telegraph Point.

Australian ancestry made up 42.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.5% of responses.

15.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 9.5% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 12.3%.

Health care and social assistance employed 15.4% of workers, and education and training employed 5.3%.

The labour-force participation rate was 59.2%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

30.3% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 21.8% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.0%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

58.3% reported no selected long-term health condition.

9.3% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.3% reported asthma, 10.1% arthritis and 5.1% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

15.0% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.2% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 19.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 45.9%.

Median household income was $1,514 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,560.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $350 per week.

Working from home was 9.5% in Telegraph Point, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 46.2% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 12.1% in Telegraph Point, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.