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Cable Beach Real Estate

Cable Beach real estate

In Cable Beach, 50% of households were renting at the 2021 Census, compared with 27% across Western Australia.

  • House 78
  • Townhouse or terrace 13
  • Flat or apartment 3
  • Other or not stated 6
  • Owned outright 18
  • Mortgaged 27
  • Rented 50
  • Other or not stated 5
Homes in Cable Beach as a street of 100, from the census count of households by kind of home and tenure. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.
Median rent$371 a weekWA $340
Median mortgage repayment$2,167 a monthWA $1,842
Median household income$2,181 a weekWA $1,815

Separate houses and three-bedroom homes

Flats or apartments make up 3% of occupied homes in Cable Beach, below the 6% across Western Australia. Separate houses account for 78%, below the state's 80%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 13%, the same as the state. The figures suggest that apartment buildings play a smaller part in the housing here than they do across the state.

At the 2021 Census, 44% of homes in Cable Beach had three bedrooms, above the 37% across Western Australia. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 21%, above the state's 17%, while those with four or more bedrooms come to 33%, below 45%. On Census night, 11% of private dwellings in Cable Beach stood unoccupied, matching the 11% for Western Australia.

Western Australia, the same way: 80 houses, 6 flats, 27 rented.

Renting, owning and repaying in Cable Beach

With 50% of households renting, Cable Beach is above the 27% across Western Australia. Among those renting households, 38% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the state's 55%; the other renters have state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. Median rent is $371 a week, above $340 for the state.

Ownership shares run the other way. 18% of households own outright, below 29% across Western Australia, and 27% are paying off a mortgage, below 40%. The median repayment is $2,167 a month, above the state's $1,842, and median household income is $2,181 a week, above $1,815. Measured against that income, the median rent comes to 17%, below 19% for the state, a ratio this page works out from the two medians rather than one taken from the Census.

A younger median age, and a smaller share at one address

41% of people aged five and over in Cable Beach lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 54% across Western Australia. The figure answers one 2021 question about where each person was living in 2016.

The suburb of Cable Beach had 5,730 people living in it at the 2021 Census. The median age was 34 years, below the 38 across Western Australia, which points toward a younger population than the state's. Households averaged 2.7 people, above 2.5 for Western Australia, suggesting households with more people, on average, than across the state.