Palmers Channel

12.2% of Palmers Channel's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

35 family households lived in Palmers Channel; 45.7% were couple families and 0.0% were one-parent families.

20.0% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Palmers Channel had 115 residents at the 2021 Census.

11.3% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

44.3% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 93.8% of occupied private dwellings in Palmers Channel.

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

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

70.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

24.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

6.0% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

The average household in Palmers Channel had 2.4 people.

One-person households made up 28.9% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 46.7%, while 24.4% had four or more usual residents.

28.3% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about twice the Rest of NSW rate.

48.3% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 6.7% walked or cycled.

8.9% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

One-car households formed 17.8% of the total.

91.1% of households had two or more vehicles.

75.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 24.1% reported a different address.

9.6% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

93.9% of residents used only English at home.

6.1% used a language other than English at home.

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

9.6% of Palmers Channel's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 90.4% 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 94.8%.

English ancestry accounted for 53.9% of ancestry responses in Palmers Channel.

Australian ancestry made up 42.6% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

5.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

Managers accounted for 33.3% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.0%.

Health care and social assistance employed 5.0% of workers, and education and training employed 0.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 62.9%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

27.6% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 30.6% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.6%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

62.6% reported no selected long-term health condition.

10.4% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.6% reported asthma, 14.8% arthritis and 7.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 0.0% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 10.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 46.4%.

Median household income was $1,199 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,733.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $350 per week.

Working from home was 28.3% in Palmers Channel, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 70.0% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 6.0% in Palmers Channel, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.