The most common responses for occupation for employed persons usually resident in Arncliffe were Professionals 20.0%, Clerical and Administrative Workers 17.7%, Technicians and Trades Workers 13.1%, Managers 11.0% and Labourers 9.7%.

80.8% of persons usually resident in Arncliffe were Australian citizens, 41.8% were born overseas and 1.3% were overseas visitors.

There were 3,519 families in Arncliffe: 48.3% were couple families with children, 35.2% were couple families without children, 13.7% were one parent families and 2.8% were other families.

* statistcs taken from the 2006 Census for postal area 2205 conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics