Narrogin

17.5% of Narrogin's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

928 family households lived in Narrogin; 34.3% were couple families and 20.7% were one-parent families.

37.4% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

Narrogin had 3,927 residents at the 2021 Census.

22.9% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

35.3% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of WA average.

Separate houses made up 89.8% of occupied private dwellings in Narrogin.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 8.7% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.4% of occupied private dwellings.

35.7% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

29.9% were buying their home with a mortgage.

34.4% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

The average household in Narrogin had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 37.3% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Two-person households represented 33.5%, while 16.3% had four or more usual residents.

2.6% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of WA rate.

70.5% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

1.3% used only a train, tram or bus, while 5.9% walked or cycled.

7.5% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is somewhat above the Rest of WA average.

One-car households formed 40.0% of the total.

52.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

59.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 40.4% reported a different address.

17.3% of residents were born outside Australia. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of WA.

78.5% of residents used only English at home.

9.9% used a language other than English at home.

0.5% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.1% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

17.3% of Narrogin's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 82.7% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.9% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 81.6%.

English ancestry accounted for 39.3% of ancestry responses in Narrogin.

Australian ancestry made up 36.1% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.7% of responses.

16.3% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

Managers accounted for 11.4% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 10.0%.

Health care and social assistance employed 17.5% of workers, and education and training employed 11.9%.

The labour-force participation rate was 55.3%, compared with 59.4% across Rest of WA.

31.8% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 16.9% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.1%, compared with 4.2% across Rest of WA.

52.6% reported no selected long-term health condition.

10.3% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.9% reported asthma, 10.9% arthritis and 5.9% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

17.0% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of WA.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.2% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.2%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 37.8%.

Median household income was $1,236 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,149.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $240 per week.

Working from home was 2.6% in Narrogin, compared with 7.1% across Rest of WA.

Outright ownership was 35.7% locally and 34.1% across Rest of WA. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

Renting accounted for 34.4% in Narrogin, against 32.2% across Rest of WA.