Tumby Bay

14.3% of Tumby Bay's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

492 family households lived in Tumby Bay; 26.2% were couple families and 10.6% were one-parent families.

23.8% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of SA average.

Tumby Bay had 1,781 residents at the 2021 Census.

15.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

53.1% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Separate houses made up 84.4% of occupied private dwellings in Tumby Bay.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 7.2% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 6.1% of occupied private dwellings.

53.4% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

23.4% were buying their home with a mortgage.

23.2% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

The average household in Tumby Bay had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 37.2% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of SA average.

Two-person households represented 43.1%, while 12.2% had four or more usual residents.

8.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

66.1% drove a car as their only travel method. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

0.6% used only a train, tram or bus, while 5.4% walked or cycled.

5.8% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

One-car households formed 37.3% of the total.

58.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

66.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 33.1% reported a different address.

6.2% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

93.4% of residents used only English at home.

1.1% used a language other than English at home.

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

6.2% of Tumby Bay's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 93.8% 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 93.4%.

English ancestry accounted for 45.7% of ancestry responses in Tumby Bay.

Australian ancestry made up 44.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.2% of responses.

12.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

Managers accounted for 21.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 9.9%.

Health care and social assistance employed 14.3% of workers, and education and training employed 9.3%.

The labour-force participation rate was 47.5%, compared with 54.1% across Rest of SA.

23.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 19.9% worked part time.

Unemployment was 2.8%, compared with 4.8% across Rest of SA.

51.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

10.2% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.8% reported asthma, 13.0% arthritis and 8.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.9% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.2% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 13.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 45.4%.

Median household income was $1,058 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,200.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $220 per week.

Working from home was 8.8% in Tumby Bay, compared with 8.9% across Rest of SA.

Outright ownership was 53.4% locally and 41.6% across Rest of SA. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Renting accounted for 23.2% in Tumby Bay, against 26.0% across Rest of SA.