There were 4,366 families in Bega: 40.8% were couple families with children, 42.9% were couple families without children, 15.2% were one parent families and 1.1% were other families.

English was stated as the only language spoken at home by 93.8% of persons usually resident in Bega. The most common languages other than English spoken at home were: German 0.6%, Dutch 0.2%, French 0.2%, Spanish 0.1% and Vietnamese 0.1%.

84.4% of persons usually resident in Bega stated they were born in Australia. Other common responses within Bega were: England 4.0%, New Zealand 1.1%, Germany 0.7%, Netherlands 0.7% and Scotland 0.5%.

* statistcs taken from the 2006 Census for postal area 2550 conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics