Rockingham

12.7% of Rockingham's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is well below the Greater Perth average.

4,006 family households lived in Rockingham; 30.6% were couple families and 18.8% were one-parent families.

28.4% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Greater Perth average.

Rockingham had 15,312 residents at the 2021 Census.

21.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

42.3% were 55 or older. That is well above the Greater Perth average.

Separate houses made up 65.6% of occupied private dwellings in Rockingham.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 20.1% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 14.2% of occupied private dwellings.

34.8% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat above the Greater Perth average.

27.1% were buying their home with a mortgage.

38.2% rented their home. That is well above the Greater Perth average.

The average household in Rockingham had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 40.1% of occupied homes. That is well above the Greater Perth average.

Two-person households represented 35.9%, while 12.6% had four or more usual residents.

5.1% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat below the Greater Perth average.

63.6% drove a car as their only travel method. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

3.9% used only a train, tram or bus, while 2.4% walked or cycled.

9.1% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about twice the Greater Perth rate.

One-car households formed 47.6% of the total.

43.2% of households had two or more vehicles.

55.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 44.4% reported a different address.

34.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Greater Perth average.

83.4% of residents used only English at home.

9.5% used a language other than English at home.

0.5% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.2% spoke Cantonese and 0.2% spoke Hindi.

34.7% of Rockingham's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 65.3% was born in Australia.

0.4% of residents were born in China.

0.9% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 83.7%.

English ancestry accounted for 47.4% of ancestry responses in Rockingham.

Australian ancestry made up 29.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.2% of responses.

13.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is about half the Greater Perth rate.

Managers accounted for 9.9% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 12.1%.

Health care and social assistance employed 12.7% of workers, and education and training employed 7.5%.

The labour-force participation rate was 52.4%, compared with 65.2% across Greater Perth.

28.9% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.5% worked part time.

Unemployment was 8.1%, compared with 5.3% across Greater Perth.

51.3% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.2% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

8.0% reported asthma, 13.1% arthritis and 6.9% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

13.7% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about half the Greater Perth rate.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.4% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 15.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 45.4%.

Median household income was $1,169 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 $300 per week.

Working from home was 5.1% in Rockingham, compared with 7.6% across Greater Perth.

Outright ownership was 34.8% locally and 29.3% across Greater Perth. That is somewhat above the Greater Perth average.

Renting accounted for 38.2% in Rockingham, against 27.5% across Greater Perth.