Wagait Beach

15.2% of Wagait Beach's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of NT average.

119 family households lived in Wagait Beach; 24.4% were couple families and 10.9% were one-parent families.

26.1% of local families included children under 15. That is about half the Rest of NT rate.

Wagait Beach had 422 residents at the 2021 Census.

14.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

46.4% were 55 or older. That is about twice the Rest of NT rate.

Separate houses made up 97.2% of occupied private dwellings in Wagait Beach.

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

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

42.4% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is about twice the Rest of NT rate.

43.6% were buying their home with a mortgage.

13.9% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of NT rate.

The average household in Wagait Beach had 2.1 people.

One-person households made up 29.7% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of NT average.

Two-person households represented 49.7%, while 7.4% had four or more usual residents.

8.6% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about twice the Rest of NT rate.

23.1% drove a car as their only travel method. That is about half the Rest of NT rate.

1.6% used only a train, tram or bus, while 9.7% walked or cycled.

4.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of NT rate.

One-car households formed 42.4% of the total.

56.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

70.2% were at the same address five years earlier, while 29.8% reported a different address.

17.8% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat above the Rest of NT average.

83.9% of residents used only English at home.

7.1% used a language other than English at home.

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

17.8% of Wagait Beach's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 82.2% 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 86.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 38.4% of ancestry responses in Wagait Beach.

Australian ancestry made up 38.9% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.9% of responses.

23.1% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NT.

Managers accounted for 16.1% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 17.7%.

Health care and social assistance employed 10.2% of workers, and education and training employed 9.1%.

The labour-force participation rate was 54.3%, compared with 50.7% across Rest of NT.

30.4% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 13.8% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.1%, compared with 8.9% across Rest of NT.

55.0% reported no selected long-term health condition.

8.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

6.6% reported asthma, 9.2% arthritis and 3.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

22.4% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Rest of NT average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 9.3% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.0%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 36.2%.

Median household income was $1,355 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,597.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $250 per week.

Working from home was 8.6% in Wagait Beach, compared with 3.9% across Rest of NT.

Outright ownership was 42.4% locally and 14.7% across Rest of NT. That is about twice the Rest of NT rate.

Renting accounted for 13.9% in Wagait Beach, against 63.3% across Rest of NT.