Unoccupied dwellings, and no flats
In Port Denison, 29% of private dwellings were unoccupied on Census night, against 11% across WA. Among occupied homes, none are flats or apartments, below 6% for the state. Separate houses are 80%, the same as the WA figure of 80%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are 18%, above 13% across WA.
Three bedrooms describes 41% of homes in Port Denison, above 37% across WA. Four or more bedrooms describes 39%, below 45% for the state. Two bedrooms or fewer describes 17%, the same as the 17% across WA.
Owning outright in Port Denison
Outright ownership covers 45% of households in Port Denison, above 29% across WA, while paying off a mortgage covers 19%, below 40% for the state. The median mortgage repayment is $1,517 a month, below $1,842 across WA. Renting accounts for 29% of households, above 27% for WA. Median household income was $1,027 a week, below $1,815 across the state.
Median rent in Port Denison was $250 a week, below $340 across WA. Of renting households, 39% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the WA figure of 55%. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 24% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above 19% across WA.
Older residents in smaller households
Port Denison's median age is 56 years, above 38 across WA, which suggests older residents than across the state. The suburb of Port Denison had 1,452 people at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 2 people, below 2.5 for WA.
Of people aged five and over in Port Denison, 55% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across WA. This is one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.