Townhouses, terraces and three bedrooms
Attached homes are Nollamara's signature in the figures. At the 2021 Census, townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses were 53% of occupied homes, above 13% across WA. Separate houses were 47%, below 80% for the state, and flats or apartments were fewer than 1%, below 6%. The figures suggest a larger share of homes that are attached homes than across Western Australia, and a smaller share in apartment buildings.
Three bedrooms is the common size in Nollamara: 75% of homes, above 37% across WA. Homes with four or more bedrooms were 8%, below 45%, and homes with two bedrooms or fewer were 16%, below 17% statewide. Of private dwellings, 8% were unoccupied on Census night, below the WA figure of 11%.
A suburb with many renters
Renting is more common in Nollamara than across the state. At the 2021 Census, 46% of households rented, above 27% across WA, and 61% of renting households rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 55%. Median rent was $340 a week, the same as $340 across WA.
Median household income was $1,492 a week in Nollamara, below $1,815 for the state. Worked out on this page from the two medians, rent equals 23% of the median weekly income of all households, above the 19% for WA. Households owning outright were 18%, below 29%, and those paying off a mortgage were 33%, below 40%, with a median repayment of $1,582 a month, below $1,842 across WA.
Addresses, ages and household size
The five-year address figure is below the state in Nollamara. One 2021 question asked people aged five and over where they lived in 2016, and 43% gave the same address, below 54% across WA. That suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over here at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.
The suburb of Nollamara was home to 12,779 people at the 2021 Census. The median age was 34 years, below 38 for WA, suggesting a younger population than the state. An average household held 2.2 people, below 2.5 across WA, which suggests fewer people sharing each home than across the state.