Cooloongup

17.3% of Cooloongup's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

1,786 family households lived in Cooloongup; 33.5% were couple families and 24.1% were one-parent families.

33.9% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat below the Greater Perth average.

Cooloongup had 6,696 residents at the 2021 Census.

23.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

35.2% were 55 or older. That is well above the Greater Perth average.

Separate houses made up 91.4% of occupied private dwellings in Cooloongup.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 7.7% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.7% of occupied private dwellings.

31.7% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

39.9% were buying their home with a mortgage.

28.3% rented their home. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

The average household in Cooloongup had 2.4 people.

One-person households made up 29.9% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Greater Perth average.

Two-person households represented 36.1%, while 18.8% had four or more usual residents.

3.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Greater Perth rate.

62.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

4.7% used only a train, tram or bus, while 1.8% walked or cycled.

6.5% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

One-car households formed 40.1% of the total.

53.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

64.0% were at the same address five years earlier, while 36.0% reported a different address.

29.6% of residents were born outside Australia. That is well below the Greater Perth average.

83.9% of residents used only English at home.

9.1% used a language other than English at home.

0.5% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.2% spoke Hindi.

29.6% of Cooloongup's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 70.4% was born in Australia.

0.3% of residents were born in China.

0.6% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 82.7%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.8% of ancestry responses in Cooloongup.

Australian ancestry made up 33.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.0% of responses.

10.5% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about half the Greater Perth rate.

Managers accounted for 7.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 13.2% of workers, and education and training employed 7.0%.

The labour-force participation rate was 53.2%, compared with 65.2% across Greater Perth.

27.7% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 16.1% worked part time.

Unemployment was 10.4%, compared with 5.3% across Greater Perth.

49.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

12.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

9.4% reported asthma, 12.3% arthritis and 8.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

9.6% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about half the Greater Perth rate.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 1.9% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.3%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 51.4%.

Median household income was $1,207 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,313.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $300 per week.

Working from home was 3.8% in Cooloongup, compared with 7.6% across Greater Perth.

Outright ownership was 31.7% locally and 29.3% across Greater Perth. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

Renting accounted for 28.3% in Cooloongup, against 27.5% across Greater Perth.