Upper Tooloom

8.8% of Upper Tooloom's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

18 family households lived in Upper Tooloom; 16.7% were couple families and 0.0% were one-parent families.

22.2% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Upper Tooloom had 57 residents at the 2021 Census.

14.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

42.1% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 77.8% of occupied private dwellings in Upper Tooloom.

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

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

42.9% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

28.6% were buying their home with a mortgage.

28.6% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Upper Tooloom had 2.6 people.

One-person households made up 14.3% of occupied homes. That is about half the Rest of NSW rate.

Two-person households represented 52.4%, while 19.0% had four or more usual residents.

37.5% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about twice the Rest of NSW rate.

34.4% 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 0.0% walked or cycled.

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

One-car households formed 23.8% of the total.

57.1% of households had two or more vehicles.

77.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 22.4% reported a different address.

10.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

86.0% of residents used only English at home.

7.0% used a language other than English at home.

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

10.5% of Upper Tooloom's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 89.5% 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 91.2%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.9% of ancestry responses in Upper Tooloom.

Australian ancestry made up 52.6% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

18.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

Managers accounted for 34.4% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 0.0%.

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

The labour-force participation rate was 58.5%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

32.7% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 21.2% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.5%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

61.4% reported no selected long-term health condition.

17.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

12.3% reported asthma, 10.5% arthritis and 0.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

11.1% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 14.8% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 0.0%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 25.9%.

Median household income was $787 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,542.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $150 per week.

Working from home was 37.5% in Upper Tooloom, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 42.9% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Renting accounted for 28.6% in Upper Tooloom, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.