2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Swan · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Swan
How families and households are made up across the area.
Household patterns in Swan have remained remarkably steady since 2011. While family structures are stable, a striking 30.2% of the population lives alone, which is well above both the state and national figures. This high number of single-person homes shapes the local living landscape.
2.4
→ 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 Swan — lower than 71% of areas.
| Swan | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Greater Perth | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 30.2% of people live alone, a figure much higher than most areas. This helps explain why the typical home in Swan has 2.4 people, which is slightly lower than the national figure of 2.5.
30.2% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 85% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Swan splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (30%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up over half of all families at 55.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 12.9% of the total, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2011 and sits a little below the national average.
12.9% ▼ -8.4%
Lower than 66% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Swan, Couples with children is the majority at 55%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Swan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED514/swan/topic/family-households