Kalbarri

12.6% of Kalbarri's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

379 family households lived in Kalbarri; 27.7% were couple families and 8.4% were one-parent families.

24.8% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

Kalbarri had 1,478 residents at the 2021 Census.

18.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

48.2% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Separate houses made up 79.2% of occupied private dwellings in Kalbarri.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 12.9% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.

47.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

24.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

28.7% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Rest of WA average.

The average household in Kalbarri had 2.1 people.

One-person households made up 31.6% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of WA average.

Two-person households represented 45.1%, while 13.5% had four or more usual residents.

6.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

50.9% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

1.9% used only a train, tram or bus, while 11.6% walked or cycled.

3.5% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

One-car households formed 37.3% of the total.

59.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

64.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 35.2% reported a different address.

16.6% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

83.5% of residents used only English at home.

3.4% used a language other than English at home.

0.3% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

16.6% of Kalbarri's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 83.4% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 82.7%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.9% of ancestry responses in Kalbarri.

Australian ancestry made up 34.9% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.6% of responses.

12.3% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

Managers accounted for 15.5% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 7.8%.

Health care and social assistance employed 6.1% of workers, and education and training employed 7.2%.

The labour-force participation rate was 50.2%, compared with 59.4% across Rest of WA.

23.4% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 19.3% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.5%, compared with 4.2% across Rest of WA.

52.8% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.3% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

5.9% reported asthma, 10.9% arthritis and 4.5% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

11.0% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of WA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.7% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 11.2%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 44.5%.

Median household income was $1,122 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,600.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $258 per week.

Working from home was 6.2% in Kalbarri, compared with 7.1% across Rest of WA.

Outright ownership was 47.0% locally and 34.1% across Rest of WA. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Renting accounted for 28.7% in Kalbarri, against 32.2% across Rest of WA.