Canning Vale

19.4% of Canning Vale's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is almost exactly typical for Greater Perth.

9,386 family households lived in Canning Vale; 57.7% were couple families and 11.0% were one-parent families.

41.6% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

Canning Vale had 34,504 residents at the 2021 Census.

28.5% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

23.5% were 55 or older. That is somewhat below the Greater Perth average.

Separate houses made up 94.4% of occupied private dwellings in Canning Vale.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 4.8% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.8% of occupied private dwellings.

31.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

50.7% were buying their home with a mortgage.

18.3% rented their home. That is well below the Greater Perth average.

The average household in Canning Vale had 3.1 people.

One-person households made up 11.9% of occupied homes. That is about half the Greater Perth rate.

Two-person households represented 27.6%, while 40.5% had four or more usual residents.

7.0% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

66.5% drove a car as their only travel method. That is somewhat above the Greater Perth average.

2.9% used only a train, tram or bus, while 0.8% walked or cycled.

1.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Greater Perth rate.

One-car households formed 24.1% of the total.

74.6% of households had two or more vehicles.

65.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 34.2% reported a different address.

50.2% of residents were born outside Australia. That is well above the Greater Perth average.

52.9% of residents used only English at home.

40.8% used a language other than English at home.

10.3% spoke Mandarin at home, 2.7% spoke Cantonese and 1.5% spoke Hindi.

50.2% of Canning Vale's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 49.8% was born in Australia.

5.0% of residents were born in China.

8.7% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 76.2%.

English ancestry accounted for 23.6% of ancestry responses in Canning Vale.

Australian ancestry made up 17.6% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 18.6% of responses.

24.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

Managers accounted for 11.6% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 13.3%.

Health care and social assistance employed 13.9% of workers, and education and training employed 8.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 65.9%, compared with 65.2% across Greater Perth.

37.9% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 21.4% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.3%, compared with 5.3% across Greater Perth.

67.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

5.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

5.5% reported asthma, 5.3% arthritis and 4.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

33.5% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat above the Greater Perth average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 12.5% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.6%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 26.1%.

Median household income was $2,277 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,000.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $425 per week.

Working from home was 7.0% in Canning Vale, compared with 7.6% across Greater Perth.

Outright ownership was 31.0% locally and 29.3% across Greater Perth. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

Renting accounted for 18.3% in Canning Vale, against 27.5% across Greater Perth.