Warners Bay

16.0% of Warners Bay's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

2,386 family households lived in Warners Bay; 36.5% were couple families and 17.9% were one-parent families.

31.9% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Warners Bay had 8,237 residents at the 2021 Census.

20.9% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

38.2% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 67.6% of occupied private dwellings in Warners Bay.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 23.1% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 8.9% of occupied private dwellings.

45.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

30.8% were buying their home with a mortgage.

23.9% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Warners Bay had 2.3 people.

One-person households made up 29.1% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 37.3%, while 20.0% had four or more usual residents.

22.4% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

53.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

0.5% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.6% walked or cycled.

5.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 39.4% of the total.

55.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

59.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 40.1% reported a different address.

12.2% of residents were born outside Australia. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

91.2% of residents used only English at home.

5.4% used a language other than English at home.

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

12.2% of Warners Bay's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 87.8% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

0.6% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 93.0%.

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

Australian ancestry made up 41.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.9% of responses.

24.9% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 11.1% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 14.7%.

Health care and social assistance employed 19.7% of workers, and education and training employed 10.4%.

The labour-force participation rate was 57.8%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

31.5% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.3% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.7%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

53.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.7% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.9% reported asthma, 12.8% arthritis and 5.5% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

24.3% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 7.0% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 16.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 38.2%.

Median household income was $1,494 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,058.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $420 per week.

Working from home was 22.4% in Warners Bay, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 45.3% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 23.9% in Warners Bay, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.