A suburb of separate houses
Separate houses make up 93% of occupied homes in Ashby, above 80% across WA. Flats or apartments come to 3%, below 6% across WA, and with townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses at 4%, the figures suggest home life in Ashby centres on separate houses more than across the state. Both attached homes and apartments sit below Western Australia here.
27% of homes in Ashby have two bedrooms or fewer, above 17% across WA, and 51% have four or more, above 45% across WA. Three-bedroom homes come to 21%, below 37% across WA. On Census night, 5% of private dwellings in Ashby were unoccupied, below the state's 11%.
Rent, income and agents in Ashby
Worked out on this page from two medians, the median weekly rent in Ashby equals 27% of the median weekly income of all its households, renters or not, above 19% across WA. Median rent is $380 a week, above $340 across WA, and median household income is $1,416 a week, below $1,815 across WA. The share is not a Census figure, and not what renters themselves pay.
22% of households in Ashby rent, below 27% across WA. Of those renting households, 71% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 55% across WA; the others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom.
Outright ownership stands at 34%, above 29% across WA. Paying off a mortgage accounts for 39% of households, below 40% statewide, and the median repayment is $1,863 a month, above $1,842 across WA. That repayment describes households with a mortgage only, so it says nothing about the 34% who own outright or the households who rent.
Who lives in Ashby
62% of people aged five and over in Ashby lived at the same address five years earlier, going by one 2021 question about where they lived in 2016. Against 54% across WA, that suggests a larger share of people aged five and over in Ashby at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.
The suburb of Ashby had 2,850 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age is 39 years, above 38 across WA, pointing to an older population than the state's. An average household holds 2.4 people, below 2.5 across WA, which suggests fewer people share each home in Ashby than across Western Australia.