2.5 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Forrest · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Forrest
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the largest household group in Forrest, accounting for 54.6% of families. The area has a very steady social structure, with family types and household sizes remaining almost identical to figures from ten years ago.
2.5
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 0 areas
- 1.9: 2 areas
- 2.0: 1 area
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 3 areas
- 2.3: 23 areas
- 2.4: 27 areas
- 2.5: 26 areas
- 2.6: 22 areas
- 2.7: 16 areas
- 2.8: 8 areas
- 2.9: 9 areas
- 3.0: 5 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 2 areas
- 3.3: 1 area
All federal electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Forrest — lower than 57% of areas.
| Forrest | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A typical home in Forrest holds 2.5 people, which is about the same as the state and national figures. About 25.1% of residents live alone, a proportion that has barely changed since 2011.
25.1% ▲ +0.1%
Lower than 53% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 25.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Forrest, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (25%) and 4 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family structures are consistent with the rest of the country, with one-parent families making up 13.9% of the total. Couples without children are also common, representing 30.7% of families.
13.9% ▲ +1.5%
Lower than 54% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Forrest, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Forrest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED507/forrest/topic/family-households