Four or more bedrooms in 74% of homes
At the 2021 Census, 74% of homes in Atwell had four or more bedrooms, above the 45% across Western Australia. Three-bedroom homes made up 20%, below the state's 37%, and homes with two bedrooms or fewer 5%, below the 17% statewide.
Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses came to 1% of occupied homes in Atwell, below the 13% across the state, and flats or apartments to 4%, below the 6% across the state. Separate houses reached 94%, above Western Australia's 80%. On Census night 5% of private dwellings in Atwell were unoccupied, below the state figure of 11%.
Home loans, rent and income in Atwell
In Atwell, 54% of households are paying off a mortgage, above the 40% across Western Australia. Outright owners make up 22%, below the state's 29%. The median mortgage repayment was $1,950 a month, above the state median of $1,842, and median household income was $2,404 a week, above Western Australia's $1,815.
Renting households are 23% of the total, below the 27% across the state. Of those, 71% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 55%. Median rent stood at $400 a week, above the Western Australian median of $340.
Taken as a share of the median weekly income of all Atwell households, renters or not, that rent comes to 17%. The share is worked out on this page from the two medians. Across Western Australia the same working gives 19%, which puts Atwell below the state.
Three people to a household
An average Atwell household held 3 people at the 2021 Census, above the 2.5 across Western Australia. The suburb of Atwell was home to 9,287 people, with a median age of 35 years, below the state median of 38.
Of people aged five and over in Atwell, 64% lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across Western Australia. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.