Cable Beach

22.9% of Cable Beach's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is somewhat above the Rest of WA average.

1,311 family households lived in Cable Beach; 40.5% were couple families and 20.5% were one-parent families.

46.6% of local families included children under 15. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Cable Beach had 5,730 residents at the 2021 Census.

32.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

19.3% were 55 or older. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

Separate houses made up 77.5% of occupied private dwellings in Cable Beach.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 12.8% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 3.2% of occupied private dwellings.

19.2% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

28.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.

52.8% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

The average household in Cable Beach had 2.7 people.

One-person households made up 23.9% of occupied homes. That is somewhat below the Rest of WA average.

Two-person households represented 32.6%, while 28.1% had four or more usual residents.

4.6% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Rest of WA average.

63.7% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

0.7% used only a train, tram or bus, while 7.1% walked or cycled.

5.6% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

One-car households formed 34.1% of the total.

60.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

47.3% were at the same address five years earlier, while 52.7% reported a different address.

16.0% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

75.4% of residents used only English at home.

11.2% used a language other than English at home.

0.7% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.3% spoke Cantonese and 0.2% spoke Hindi.

16.0% of Cable Beach's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 84.0% was born in Australia.

0.7% of residents were born in China.

0.5% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 80.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 30.1% of ancestry responses in Cable Beach.

Australian ancestry made up 31.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.8% of responses.

24.4% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Managers accounted for 14.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.8%.

Health care and social assistance employed 18.6% of workers, and education and training employed 12.9%.

The labour-force participation rate was 67.7%, compared with 59.4% across Rest of WA.

43.5% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 17.2% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.4%, compared with 4.2% across Rest of WA.

64.8% reported no selected long-term health condition.

5.3% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

5.1% reported asthma, 3.9% arthritis and 2.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

21.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Rest of WA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 6.7% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 30.6%.

Median household income was $2,181 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,167.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $371 per week.

Working from home was 4.6% in Cable Beach, compared with 7.1% across Rest of WA.

Outright ownership was 19.2% locally and 34.1% across Rest of WA. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

Renting accounted for 52.8% in Cable Beach, against 32.2% across Rest of WA.