Thurgoona

24.1% of Thurgoona's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

3,052 family households lived in Thurgoona; 49.3% were couple families and 13.4% were one-parent families.

46.0% of local families included children under 15. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Thurgoona had 11,028 residents at the 2021 Census.

28.3% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

23.6% were 55 or older. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 96.7% of occupied private dwellings in Thurgoona.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 1.7% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 1.2% of occupied private dwellings.

26.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

48.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

25.7% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Thurgoona had 2.8 people.

One-person households made up 17.2% of occupied homes. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 34.0%, while 31.3% had four or more usual residents.

9.0% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

73.2% 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 1.2% walked or cycled.

1.8% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

One-car households formed 28.5% of the total.

69.8% of households had two or more vehicles.

48.0% were at the same address five years earlier, while 52.0% reported a different address.

10.9% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

89.4% of residents used only English at home.

7.3% used a language other than English at home.

0.5% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.2% spoke Hindi.

10.9% of Thurgoona's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 89.1% was born in Australia.

0.4% of residents were born in China.

1.2% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 93.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 40.6% of ancestry responses in Thurgoona.

Australian ancestry made up 42.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.0% of responses.

22.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 11.4% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 13.0%.

Health care and social assistance employed 18.5% of workers, and education and training employed 11.7%.

The labour-force participation rate was 69.5%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

40.5% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 23.1% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.5%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

60.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

10.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.1% reported asthma, 8.1% arthritis and 4.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

24.4% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.1%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 40.9%.

Median household income was $1,953 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,625.

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

Working from home was 9.0% in Thurgoona, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 26.3% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 25.7% in Thurgoona, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.