Wooyung

11.5% of Wooyung's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

32 family households lived in Wooyung; 31.3% were couple families and 25.0% were one-parent families.

25.0% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of NSW average.

Wooyung had 139 residents at the 2021 Census.

18.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

36.7% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Separate houses made up 86.7% of occupied private dwellings in Wooyung.

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

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

40.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

25.7% were buying their home with a mortgage.

34.3% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

The average household in Wooyung had 2.5 people.

One-person households made up 30.4% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of NSW average.

Two-person households represented 26.1%, while 21.7% had four or more usual residents.

22.0% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is well above the Rest of NSW average.

55.9% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat 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 44.2% of the total.

51.2% of households had two or more vehicles.

69.0% were at the same address five years earlier, while 31.0% reported a different address.

14.4% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

82.0% of residents used only English at home.

7.9% used a language other than English at home.

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

14.4% of Wooyung's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 85.6% 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 81.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.9% of ancestry responses in Wooyung.

Australian ancestry made up 31.7% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

15.3% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of NSW average.

Managers accounted for 18.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 6.8%.

Health care and social assistance employed 22.0% of workers, and education and training employed 0.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 51.6%, compared with 56.4% across Rest of NSW.

27.4% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 14.5% worked part time.

Unemployment was 12.5%, compared with 4.6% across Rest of NSW.

55.4% reported no selected long-term health condition.

9.4% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

5.8% reported asthma, 12.2% arthritis and 5.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

21.5% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of NSW average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 0.0% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 9.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 41.9%.

Median household income was $1,093 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,517.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $315 per week.

Working from home was 22.0% in Wooyung, compared with 15.7% across Rest of NSW.

Outright ownership was 40.0% locally and 39.6% across Rest of NSW. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of NSW.

Renting accounted for 34.3% in Wooyung, against 27.9% across Rest of NSW.