Bluff Point

12.8% of Bluff Point's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

347 family households lived in Bluff Point; 30.5% were couple families and 12.7% were one-parent families.

30.0% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

Bluff Point had 1,381 residents at the 2021 Census.

17.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

47.4% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Separate houses made up 70.5% of occupied private dwellings in Bluff Point.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 27.4% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 2.4% of occupied private dwellings.

43.8% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

21.9% were buying their home with a mortgage.

34.3% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

The average household in Bluff Point had 2.1 people.

One-person households made up 37.4% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Two-person households represented 38.7%, while 13.8% had four or more usual residents.

4.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of WA average.

71.7% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

0.6% used only a train, tram or bus, while 2.2% walked or cycled.

5.5% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

One-car households formed 40.9% of the total.

54.0% of households had two or more vehicles.

55.4% were at the same address five years earlier, while 44.6% reported a different address.

19.2% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

85.0% of residents used only English at home.

9.2% used a language other than English at home.

0.2% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.4% spoke Hindi.

19.2% of Bluff Point's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 80.8% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.6% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 88.2%.

English ancestry accounted for 43.1% of ancestry responses in Bluff Point.

Australian ancestry made up 37.6% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.8% of responses.

21.3% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Managers accounted for 9.7% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 16.1% of workers, and education and training employed 10.5%.

The labour-force participation rate was 55.4%, compared with 59.4% across Rest of WA.

31.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 18.0% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.3%, compared with 4.2% across Rest of WA.

52.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.4% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.0% reported asthma, 12.8% arthritis and 5.7% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

15.4% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 4.3% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 16.1%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 39.3%.

Median household income was $1,359 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,733.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $260 per week.

Working from home was 4.2% in Bluff Point, compared with 7.1% across Rest of WA.

Outright ownership was 43.8% locally and 34.1% across Rest of WA. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Renting accounted for 34.3% in Bluff Point, against 32.2% across Rest of WA.