Sunset Beach

21.5% of Sunset Beach's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

433 family households lived in Sunset Beach; 35.6% were couple families and 19.2% were one-parent families.

40.9% of local families included children under 15. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

Sunset Beach had 1,558 residents at the 2021 Census.

26.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

28.2% were 55 or older. That is somewhat below the Rest of WA average.

Separate houses made up 91.7% of occupied private dwellings in Sunset Beach.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 2.7% of occupied private dwellings.

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

32.2% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

33.6% were buying their home with a mortgage.

34.2% rented their home. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

The average household in Sunset Beach had 2.4 people.

One-person households made up 25.2% of occupied homes. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

Two-person households represented 38.9%, while 19.9% had four or more usual residents.

3.2% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about half the Rest of WA rate.

74.4% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 2.0% walked or cycled.

2.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Rest of WA rate.

One-car households formed 35.2% of the total.

62.4% of households had two or more vehicles.

51.8% were at the same address five years earlier, while 48.2% reported a different address.

16.8% of residents were born outside Australia. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

83.1% of residents used only English at home.

8.9% used a language other than English at home.

0.2% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.

16.8% of Sunset Beach's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 83.2% 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 85.0%.

English ancestry accounted for 38.1% of ancestry responses in Sunset Beach.

Australian ancestry made up 40.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.3% of responses.

18.8% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Rest of WA average.

Managers accounted for 8.3% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 11.7%.

Health care and social assistance employed 17.1% of workers, and education and training employed 12.1%.

The labour-force participation rate was 63.4%, compared with 59.4% across Rest of WA.

36.8% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 20.7% worked part time.

Unemployment was 2.6%, compared with 4.2% across Rest of WA.

57.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

9.1% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

10.1% reported asthma, 7.6% arthritis and 4.8% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.9% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of WA.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 4.1% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 14.3%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 42.7%.

Median household income was $1,740 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 $310 per week.

Working from home was 3.2% in Sunset Beach, compared with 7.1% across Rest of WA.

Outright ownership was 32.2% locally and 34.1% across Rest of WA. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

Renting accounted for 34.2% in Sunset Beach, against 32.2% across Rest of WA.