Arno Bay

16.2% of Arno Bay's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

80 family households lived in Arno Bay; 40.0% were couple families and 16.3% were one-parent families.

38.8% of local families included children under 15. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Arno Bay had 314 residents at the 2021 Census.

18.2% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

45.9% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Separate houses made up 92.9% of occupied private dwellings in Arno Bay.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 2.4% of occupied private dwellings.

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

57.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

26.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

16.7% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of SA average.

The average household in Arno Bay had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 33.1% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Two-person households represented 37.2%, while 21.5% had four or more usual residents.

11.7% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Rest of SA average.

60.6% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 7.3% walked or cycled.

0.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

One-car households formed 25.2% of the total.

71.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

70.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 29.1% reported a different address.

7.3% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

88.5% of residents used only English at home.

2.2% used a language other than English at home.

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

7.3% of Arno Bay's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 92.7% 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 89.8%.

English ancestry accounted for 36.0% of ancestry responses in Arno Bay.

Australian ancestry made up 51.0% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

5.1% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

Managers accounted for 21.9% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 6.6%.

Health care and social assistance employed 15.3% of workers, and education and training employed 10.9%.

The labour-force participation rate was 56.2%, compared with 54.1% across Rest of SA.

29.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 19.6% worked part time.

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

55.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

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

7.6% reported asthma, 11.5% arthritis and 8.3% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

14.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 5.9% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 6.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 48.1%.

Median household income was $982 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $867.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $183 per week.

Working from home was 11.7% in Arno Bay, compared with 8.9% across Rest of SA.

Outright ownership was 57.0% locally and 41.6% across Rest of SA. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Renting accounted for 16.7% in Arno Bay, against 26.0% across Rest of SA.