Port Denison

13.4% of Port Denison's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

369 family households lived in Port Denison; 27.1% were couple families and 15.2% were one-parent families.

24.7% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

Port Denison had 1,452 residents at the 2021 Census.

15.4% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

51.9% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Separate houses made up 80.3% of occupied private dwellings in Port Denison.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 17.8% of occupied private dwellings.

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

48.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

20.5% were buying their home with a mortgage.

31.2% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

The average household in Port Denison had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 37.4% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Two-person households represented 41.7%, while 11.2% had four or more usual residents.

7.5% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of WA.

61.8% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

1.1% used only a train, tram or bus, while 3.8% walked or cycled.

5.2% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of WA.

One-car households formed 41.2% of the total.

52.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

64.1% were at the same address five years earlier, while 35.9% reported a different address.

12.3% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of WA average.

83.7% of residents used only English at home.

2.4% used a language other than English at home.

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

12.3% of Port Denison's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 87.7% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.3% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 83.3%.

English ancestry accounted for 40.2% of ancestry responses in Port Denison.

Australian ancestry made up 39.5% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.6% of responses.

13.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

Managers accounted for 14.1% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 8.8%.

Health care and social assistance employed 9.4% of workers, and education and training employed 7.3%.

The labour-force participation rate was 42.9%, compared with 59.4% across Rest of WA.

22.9% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 14.5% worked part time.

Unemployment was 3.3%, compared with 4.2% across Rest of WA.

49.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.4% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

6.2% reported asthma, 12.3% arthritis and 7.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

10.3% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 1.3% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 12.2%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 37.9%.

Median household income was $1,027 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,517.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $250 per week.

Working from home was 7.5% in Port Denison, compared with 7.1% across Rest of WA.

Outright ownership was 48.3% locally and 34.1% across Rest of WA. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Renting accounted for 31.2% in Port Denison, against 32.2% across Rest of WA.