Clarkson real estate

In Clarkson, 89% of occupied homes are separate houses, compared with 80% across Western Australia. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses make up 10%, below the state's 13%, and flats or apartments 1%.

Clarkson homes with four or more bedrooms make up 53%, above 45% across the state, while three-bedroom homes make up 40%, above the state's 37%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer make up 7%, against 17% for Western Australia. On Census night, 7% of private dwellings in Clarkson were unoccupied, below the state's 11%.

Paying off a mortgage describes 52% of households in Clarkson, above 40% across Western Australia, and the median repayment is $1,733 a month, below the state's $1,842. Outright ownership sits at 16%, against 29% for the state, while 31% of households rent, above the state's 27%. The mortgage share and the renting share are both above the state's.

The median rent in Clarkson is $350 a week, against $340 across Western Australia, and the median household income is $1,761 a week, below the state's $1,815. On this page, the rent median works out to 20% of the income median, above 19% for the state. That is a comparison of two medians across every household, not a measure of what renters pay.

Of Clarkson's renting households, 61% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 55% across Western Australia. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. At the 2021 Census, an agent was the landlord for a higher share of renting households in Clarkson than across the state.

The suburb of Clarkson had 13,904 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age is 34 years, below 38 across Western Australia, and an average household holds 2.6 people, above the state's 2.5.

Of people aged five and over in Clarkson, 53% lived at the same address five years earlier, according to the one 2021 question about where they lived in 2016. Across Western Australia the figure is 54%, and Clarkson sits below it.