2.0 ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Carnamah · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Carnamah
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 40% of people live alone in Carnamah, which is far above the national figure. This high number of single-person households means the area has a very small typical household size of just 2.0 people, a figure that has dropped since 2011.
2.0
▼ -13.0%
- 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 Carnamah — lower than 95% of areas.
| Carnamah | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Almost 38.4% of residents live by themselves, which is far above the Western Australian average of 25.4%. Because of this, the number of people per home is well below the national figure of 2.5.
38.4% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 38.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Carnamah splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (40%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 48.3%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 7.5%, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
7.5% ▲ +19.0%
Lower than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Carnamah splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (48%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 7%.
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 Carnamah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA51470/carnamah/topic/family-households