2.8 ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Capel · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Capel
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people have lived alone in Capel since 2011, though the area remains dominated by larger households. This is a place where families are the norm, with 60.9% of households consisting of couples with children.
2.8
▼ -3.4%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Capel — higher than 87% of areas.
| Capel | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are typically larger than in most other areas, with 2.8 people per house. This is a little above the national figure of 2.5, and the share of people living alone is well below the Australian average at 17.6%.
17.6% ▲ +29.2%
Lower than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Capel, the largest group is 2 people at 35%, followed by 4 people (19%) and 1 person (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 60.9%, while one-parent families account for 13.8%. This last figure is about the same as the state and national averages, although it has risen 3.0 percentage points since 2011.
13.8% ▲ +27.6%
Higher than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Capel, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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 Capel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA51400/capel/topic/family-households