Brookton

17.1% of Brookton's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

180 family households lived in Brookton; 34.4% were couple families and 8.9% were one-parent families.

26.7% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

Brookton had 732 residents at the 2021 Census.

18.0% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

43.9% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Separate houses made up 96.6% of occupied private dwellings in Brookton.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 3.8% of occupied private dwellings.

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

53.3% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

21.1% were buying their home with a mortgage.

25.6% rented their home. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

The average household in Brookton had 2.2 people.

One-person households made up 32.2% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of WA average.

Two-person households represented 38.3%, while 16.3% had four or more usual residents.

12.5% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is somewhat above the Rest of WA average.

56.6% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 14.2% walked or cycled.

5.8% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

One-car households formed 30.0% of the total.

66.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

63.0% were at the same address five years earlier, while 37.0% reported a different address.

11.7% of residents were born outside Australia. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

82.4% of residents used only English at home.

5.5% used a language other than English at home.

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

11.7% of Brookton's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 88.3% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.4% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 84.0%.

English ancestry accounted for 38.5% of ancestry responses in Brookton.

Australian ancestry made up 43.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.5% of responses.

9.0% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of WA average.

Managers accounted for 25.0% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 8.3%.

Health care and social assistance employed 10.8% of workers, and education and training employed 12.8%.

The labour-force participation rate was 50.7%, compared with 59.4% across Rest of WA.

26.8% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 16.2% worked part time.

Unemployment was 6.5%, compared with 4.2% across Rest of WA.

47.5% reported no selected long-term health condition.

11.5% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

7.8% reported asthma, 17.3% arthritis and 6.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

13.4% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is somewhat below the Rest of WA average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 3.8% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 10.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 40.9%.

Median household income was $1,189 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,300.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $200 per week.

Working from home was 12.5% in Brookton, compared with 7.1% across Rest of WA.

Outright ownership was 53.3% locally and 34.1% across Rest of WA. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Renting accounted for 25.6% in Brookton, against 32.2% across Rest of WA.