Wool Bay

13.0% of Wool Bay's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

41 family households lived in Wool Bay; 9.8% were couple families and 9.8% were one-parent families.

9.8% of local families included children under 15. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

Wool Bay had 154 residents at the 2021 Census.

9.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

64.9% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Separate houses made up 95.5% of occupied private dwellings in Wool Bay.

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

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

75.4% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is about twice the Rest of SA rate.

15.4% were buying their home with a mortgage.

9.2% rented their home. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.

The average household in Wool Bay had 1.8 people.

One-person households made up 41.3% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Two-person households represented 63.5%, while 7.9% had four or more usual residents.

24.3% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about twice the Rest of SA rate.

43.2% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of SA 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 SA rate.

One-car households formed 34.3% of the total.

49.3% of households had two or more vehicles.

70.0% were at the same address five years earlier, while 30.0% reported a different address.

13.6% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

87.0% of residents used only English at home.

0.0% used a language other than English at home.

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

13.6% of Wool Bay's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 86.4% 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 87.7%.

English ancestry accounted for 40.3% of ancestry responses in Wool Bay.

Australian ancestry made up 36.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

29.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about twice the Rest of SA rate.

Managers accounted for 18.9% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 8.1%.

Health care and social assistance employed 8.1% of workers, and education and training employed 10.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 32.8%, compared with 54.1% across Rest of SA.

8.8% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 7.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 18.2%, compared with 4.8% across Rest of SA.

34.4% reported no selected long-term health condition.

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

7.8% reported asthma, 31.2% arthritis and 10.4% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

15.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 0.0% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 8.6%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 50.0%.

Median household income was $700 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,062.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $200 per week.

Working from home was 24.3% in Wool Bay, compared with 8.9% across Rest of SA.

Outright ownership was 75.4% locally and 41.6% across Rest of SA. That is about twice the Rest of SA rate.

Renting accounted for 9.2% in Wool Bay, against 26.0% across Rest of SA.