Port Pirie West

15.7% of Port Pirie West's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

621 family households lived in Port Pirie West; 27.2% were couple families and 32.7% were one-parent families.

34.1% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Port Pirie West had 2,556 residents at the 2021 Census.

20.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

37.9% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

Separate houses made up 86.3% of occupied private dwellings in Port Pirie West.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 12.4% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 0.3% of occupied private dwellings.

28.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well below the Rest of SA average.

28.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

43.4% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

The average household in Port Pirie West had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 44.1% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of SA average.

Two-person households represented 31.1%, while 12.7% had four or more usual residents.

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

65.3% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of SA average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 8.7% walked or cycled.

17.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about twice the Rest of SA rate.

One-car households formed 44.8% of the total.

38.5% of households had two or more vehicles.

67.1% were at the same address five years earlier, while 32.9% reported a different address.

7.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

89.2% of residents used only English at home.

3.4% used a language other than English at home.

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

7.5% of Port Pirie West's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 92.5% was born in Australia.

0.1% of residents were born in China.

0.2% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 91.6%.

English ancestry accounted for 44.2% of ancestry responses in Port Pirie West.

Australian ancestry made up 44.0% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.3% of responses.

9.9% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.

Managers accounted for 5.7% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 7.6%.

Health care and social assistance employed 21.9% of workers, and education and training employed 5.1%.

The labour-force participation rate was 43.7%, compared with 54.1% across Rest of SA.

17.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 17.1% worked part time.

Unemployment was 13.7%, compared with 4.8% across Rest of SA.

45.3% reported no selected long-term health condition.

15.4% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

11.3% reported asthma, 16.2% arthritis and 10.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

8.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is well below the Rest of SA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 1.5% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 11.6%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 51.7%.

Median household income was $822 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $693.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $180 per week.

Working from home was 2.6% in Port Pirie West, compared with 8.9% across Rest of SA.

Outright ownership was 28.3% locally and 41.6% across Rest of SA. That is well below the Rest of SA average.

Renting accounted for 43.4% in Port Pirie West, against 26.0% across Rest of SA.