Quairading

12.8% of Quairading's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

133 family households lived in Quairading; 18.8% were couple families and 15.8% were one-parent families.

24.1% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

Quairading had 619 residents at the 2021 Census.

15.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

57.0% were 55 or older. That is about twice the Rest of WA rate.

Separate houses made up 95.4% of occupied private dwellings in Quairading.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 2.8% of occupied private dwellings.

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

59.4% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

21.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

19.3% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

The average household in Quairading had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 39.5% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Two-person households represented 46.0%, while 13.5% had four or more usual residents.

5.0% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

61.0% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 10.1% walked or cycled.

3.3% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

One-car households formed 39.2% of the total.

58.0% of households had two or more vehicles.

67.3% were at the same address five years earlier, while 32.7% reported a different address.

11.5% of residents were born outside Australia. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

71.1% of residents used only English at home.

3.7% used a language other than English at home.

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

11.5% of Quairading's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 88.5% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.6% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 72.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 35.2% of ancestry responses in Quairading.

Australian ancestry made up 30.9% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.

6.9% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about half the Rest of WA rate.

Managers accounted for 25.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 4.4%.

Health care and social assistance employed 13.8% of workers, and education and training employed 8.2%.

The labour-force participation rate was 30.6%, compared with 59.4% across Rest of WA.

19.3% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 8.1% worked part time.

Unemployment was 4.3%, compared with 4.2% across Rest of WA.

36.8% reported no selected long-term health condition.

9.2% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

6.3% reported asthma, 13.1% arthritis and 6.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

6.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about half the Rest of WA rate.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 1.3% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 9.9%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 27.6%.

Median household income was $949 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $758.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $137 per week.

Working from home was 5.0% in Quairading, compared with 7.1% across Rest of WA.

Outright ownership was 59.4% locally and 34.1% across Rest of WA. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Renting accounted for 19.3% in Quairading, against 32.2% across Rest of WA.