No flats, and 16% of dwellings unoccupied
Separate houses account for 90% of occupied homes in Waroona, above the 80% across Western Australia, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 8%, below 13%. None of Waroona's occupied homes are flats or apartments, against 6% across the state. The figures suggest that a home in Waroona is a house of one kind or another.
On bedrooms, Waroona matches Western Australia on two counts: three-bedroom homes are 37% in both, and homes with four or more bedrooms are 45% in both. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 16%, against 17% across the state. On Census night, 16% of private dwellings in Waroona were unoccupied, above the 11% across Western Australia.
Owners outright, mortgage holders and renters
Renters make up 19% of Waroona's households, below the 27% across Western Australia, and households paying off a mortgage make up 33%, below 40%. The median mortgage repayment is $1,517 a month, against $1,842 across the state. Outright owners are the group that sits above the state: 42% of households, against 29%.
Median rent in Waroona is $270 a week, below the $340 across Western Australia, and median household income is $1,264 a week, below $1,815. Calculated here from those two medians, the median rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above the 19% across the state. The calculation is this page's own and does not show what renters pay.
In Waroona, 32% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 55% across Western Australia. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. That suggests renters in Waroona rent from those other landlords more often than renters across the state.
Older residents, and 61% of people aged five and over at their 2016 address
There were 2,868 people living in the suburb of Waroona at the 2021 Census, and their median age was 48 years, above the 38 across Western Australia. That suggests an older population than across the state. Households average 2.4 people, below the 2.5 across Western Australia. Neither figure says who those people are, only how many and how old.
The 2021 Census asked people where they lived in 2016, and in Waroona 61% of those aged five and over gave the same address, against 54% across Western Australia. It is a single question, not two counts.