Shared walls beside separate houses
Attached homes give Dianella its shape. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses made up 24% of occupied homes, above the 13% across WA, while separate houses were 71%, below the 80% across WA. Flats or apartments came to 4%, under the 6% across the state.
Homes with three bedrooms were 42%, above the 37% across WA. Homes with four or more bedrooms were 41% (45% across WA), and those with two bedrooms or fewer 16% (17% across WA), both below the state. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings in Dianella were unoccupied, below the 11% across WA.
Outright owners, and a rent level with the state
In Dianella, 39% of households owned their home outright, above the 29% across WA. Paying off a mortgage was less common than across the state, at 34% of households against 40%, though the median mortgage repayment of $2,000 a month sat above the $1,842 across WA. Renting households were 24%, below the 27% across the state.
The median rent was $340 a week, the same as across WA, and the median household income $1,684 a week, below the $1,815 across WA. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 20% of the median weekly income of all households in Dianella, renters or not, against 19% across WA. Of renting households, 55% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, the same as across WA.
An older median
The median age in Dianella was 43 years at the 2021 Census, above the 38 across WA, which suggests an older population than the state as a whole. The average household was smaller, at 2.4 people against 2.5 across WA. In all, 24,169 people lived in the suburb of Dianella. Asked in 2021 where they had lived in 2016, 62% of people aged five and over in Dianella gave the same address, above the 54% across WA.