Mount Magnet

20.6% of Mount Magnet's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

68 family households lived in Mount Magnet; 26.5% were couple families and 22.1% were one-parent families.

41.2% of local families included children under 15. That is somewhat above the Rest of WA average.

Mount Magnet had 583 residents at the 2021 Census.

23.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

32.4% were 55 or older. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

Separate houses made up 89.1% of occupied private dwellings in Mount Magnet.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 4.7% of occupied private dwellings.

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

47.7% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

16.5% were buying their home with a mortgage.

35.8% rented their home. That is somewhat above the Rest of WA average.

The average household in Mount Magnet had 2.0 people.

One-person households made up 38.3% of occupied homes. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Two-person households represented 39.8%, while 12.5% had four or more usual residents.

5.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of WA average.

46.7% 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 21.2% walked or cycled.

4.9% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of WA.

One-car households formed 37.4% of the total.

56.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

57.3% were at the same address five years earlier, while 42.7% reported a different address.

10.3% of residents were born outside Australia. That is well below the Rest of WA average.

47.2% of residents used only English at home.

2.6% used a language other than English at home.

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

10.3% of Mount Magnet's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 89.7% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 45.1%.

English ancestry accounted for 17.8% of ancestry responses in Mount Magnet.

Australian ancestry made up 21.3% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 0.5% of responses.

14.6% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of WA.

Managers accounted for 16.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 14.6%.

Health care and social assistance employed 10.9% of workers, and education and training employed 14.6%.

The labour-force participation rate was 30.8%, compared with 59.4% across Rest of WA.

22.0% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 5.0% worked part time.

Unemployment was 5.6%, compared with 4.2% across Rest of WA.

28.1% reported no selected long-term health condition.

6.2% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

4.3% reported asthma, 5.7% arthritis and 4.1% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

7.0% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about half the Rest of WA rate.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.2% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 3.4%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 19.8%.

Median household income was $1,192 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $535.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $175 per week.

Working from home was 5.8% in Mount Magnet, compared with 7.1% across Rest of WA.

Outright ownership was 47.7% locally and 34.1% across Rest of WA. That is well above the Rest of WA average.

Renting accounted for 35.8% in Mount Magnet, against 32.2% across Rest of WA.